Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible.”

Ezra T. Benson

This quote is very true. You can never do something bad and feel good about it. You might feel well at the beginning, but as soon as you realize what you have done, then you will start to feel bad for what you have done. Like the other quote says, when you do good you’ll feel good, and when you do bad, you’ll feel bad. You cannot commit something bad and feel good about it, it is not possible for you to feel that way, it is either you do good and feel good, or do bad and feel bad. You can’t feel both at the same time.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”

Howard Cosell

 

There are many ways that this statement is true. For example, people smoke week or do drugs because it is fun or for whatever reason they have, but it is a wrong thing to do. The consummation of drugs has been gaining popularity over the years, but it is still viewed as wrong. As for people that don’t do drugs, they are the unpopular, “uncool” people and they are the ones that are actually doing what is right. Another example might be that of cussing or using bad words. This is really popular and can be seen everywhere in the media. This is thought of to be a normal popular thing when it is actually wrong. People who have not used bad or don’t use them at all get seen as not cool or unhip. This statement also goes along with the other quote, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it. Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”.



Successful Students

Successful Students

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7. … understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which on turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person” lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

 

8. Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put into words. Talking about something, with friends, or classmates, is not only the good for checking whether or not you know something, it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from short-term to long-term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc. with friends, recite to a chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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