reflection

Student Success Statement

“It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good).”

Joseph Smith

Reflection:  Were responsible to make good choices and to be role models for the ones around us. We have to do good and make others and show others that we are capable of doing what were suppose to.

Ex: Coming to school and staying away from drugs. <3

Successful Students

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9. . . . don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than messed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moments marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn’t shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons. Make a high score the next day is like planning watermelon seeds. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

 

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will be to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, you will become bored. Act like you’re disinterested and you’ll be disinterests. So the next time you trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, notes, and ask question. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic. 8. . . . Talk about what you’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only 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 the 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 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. CHOOSE THE RIGHT!

Successful Students

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning.

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their professor’s teammate (see no.4). Why do they expose themselves to the temptations of inactive classroom experiences and distractions of all the people between them and their instructor? Of course, we know they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with your time?

6. …. Take good notes. Successful students take notes that are understandable and organized, and review them often.

Why put something into your notes you don’t understand? Ask the questions now that are necessary to make your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps your learn more. The more you learn them, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering, time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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student success statement

Student Success Statement

“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and wrong.

Reflection: The reflection is trying to say that when you do good, your going to feel good. And when you do bad, your going to feel guilt. So that’s why you have to do what’s right all the time.

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Successful Students

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Success students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual captivity. Successful students…

1… Are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participant improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.. Have educational goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s  desires. 

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “ Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. In your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude.

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Reflection

Student Success Statement

 

"My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."

 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 

Reflection:

 

This quote means that when you do good, your happy and nothing matters. You feel pure because your honest, respectful and choses the right all the time.

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 3

English, math, foreign language tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign class if you are just showing and doing work. But if you are in your room and look at objects and try to say them in the language you are learning it actually helps. Or if you send a simple text to a friend think about it, can you translate that to Germany or Spanish? These are the little things that will help you.

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: Time management and organization are critical key factors to success in college, and never be afraid to go ask your teacher for help. They have office hours for a reason-use them!

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part 1 - Sarah's Academic Success Story.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 1

Time management became a key factor in my study skills for college. In high school, there were times I was able to study for an hour or two the night before a test and get away with it. This was not the case in college. I made sure in college I was prepared for each class. Sometimes that meant writing out the terms for the chapter we read (even if when it isn’t required) to better understand them. That way when the midterm or test comes around I was able to understand them. That way when the midterm or test comes around I was able to understand what I was studying. I started taking excellent notes in class in college. I may have done this high school, but in college I started typing up the notes after class. This helped me remember what I just went over in class then when I had a test one week later I was more likely to remember then as well.

My Overall Study Method: Structured. One thing I learned was I had to adapt or change my study method according to the class. I couldn’t study for Religion Class the same way I studied for Finance Class. But making sure I had enough time to study for each class – even if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

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Student  Success Statement

“There is no set path, just follow your heart.”

Reflection:

Its trying to say that, when you want to do something in life, go for it. If your heart is telling you to do it, follow your heart, don’t care what anybody has to say.

student success statement

Student  Success Statement

“There is no set path, just follow your heart.”

Reflection:

Its trying to say that, when you want to do something in life, go for it. If your heart is telling you to do it, follow your heart, don’t care what anybody has to say.

WORK TOGETHER

Part 3

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: A big thing that not many will say is to ask for help if you needed it. It’s not a bad thing to nut understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you time out as you are completing everything that needs to get done and leave time to double check. Write things down and have good time management skills. Ask for help is probably the biggest thing I can say though. If you don’t understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking about that I would have to try harder to fail than I try to succeed. It is something that is within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully things that I have done can show you that success is something that is amazing to find! Good luck!

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Work Together

Part 2

English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practical situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say to leave yourself the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave then until the least second.

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WORK TOGETHER

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do this work. I don’t like having to pick up the slack, but I will if I know that my grade will be harmed otherwise. My greatest academic success was in my first semester when I had to write a 10-12 page research paper. It was the longest paper I had to ever been assigned and I was little scared. Also, it was the first paper where they were like, here you go, just write about something I had to argue in favor of or against something, but it could be anything from the sky is blue to hypnotism. I wrote mine on hypnotism. I worked on this paper for weeks and weeks.

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"try a little harder to be a little better"

Student Success Statement

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”

Gordon B. Hinkley

Reflection:

I’ve always been doing bad, as some people say. But actually im going to try to do better and be successful. I know I’m not as good as anyone else but I could be as better as them.