Student Success Statement

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
I really don't get what this is supposed to mean

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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 massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts know as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exams than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, so many students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and 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 the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

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Student Success Statement

"Whats right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
Howard Cosell
Most things that tend to be popular wont be what is ok or acceptable where as what is actually right is not popular at all.

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7. Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in 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 leaning. 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 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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High School Graduation

High School Graduation

Pleasure or Pain

I would think it would be a pleasure to graduate because you are done with all the hard work and everything you put up with during high school.

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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 educational dollars. Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be 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 meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, 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 if taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Eating

1. I eat foods that I know aren't nutritious 8
2.I eat meals or heavy snack after 7 at night 8
3.I'm afraid I'll gain weight 8
4.I eat when I'm not hungry 2
5.I ear foods my parents don't want me to eat 2
6.I'm self-conscious about how I look 100
7.When I'm bored or depressed I eat a lot 2
8.I go on eating binges 4
9.I eat until I'm uncomfortable 2
10.I hide foods or sneak them 2
11.I eat becuse I feel "who cares"? 2
12.I drink alcholic beverages 0
13.I have uncontrollable urges of hunger 2
14.Feelings of anger or hostility overwhelm me 4
15.I indulge in sweets 2
16. I eat when i'm tired of overtired0
17.I like to eat alone4
18.I use appetite suppressants 2
19. My parents made sweets avaliable or used then used them for reward 4
20.I eat and run 0
21. I don't have respect for myself and my body 2
22.I feel rushed or hurried 2
23.I have a snack or meal an hour before i go to bed 4
24. I crave sweet foods 4
25.When I eat with other people, I feel self-conscious 0
26.I gulp my food 0
27.I wish i looked like someone else 8
28.I eat or drink in secret 0
29.I feel as if i;m in the middle of a struggle 2
30.I eat when i cant sleep 2

student success statement

Student Success Statement
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

there is never a specific time to do something good, there is always a oppurtunity to do what is correct

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Successful Students

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3. … ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4. … learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

       Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interest, the same goals – in short, your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the same team. Your jobs are to work together for mutual success. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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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 what’s wrong.

this is saying whenever you do something good good feelings are felt the same way as if you do something bad then you start to feel bad and guilty and such

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students . . .

1 . . . is responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibilities mean control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own effort control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or you can actively listen, think, question, 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. If you’re educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude. If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

When you are pure to people and yourself you become stronger  

Study for Multiple Exams Part 3

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 3

English, math, foreign language tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class if you are just showing and doing the 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 German or Spanish? These are the little things that will help.

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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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you”

James Freeman Clarke

When ever you do good good things will happen to you. Its something like karma. Whatever you do to someone it will have to you. If you help someone out in a time of need eventually something good will get to you and you will be happy. You don’t have to look for happiness , if youre good you will be happy with whatever happens to you. If you do something bad, like cheat on a test it will catch on to you and you will have bad luck.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of tests or subjects. For me, any type of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficulty on. Many times I would ask the teacher for any additional study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take the terms and apply them to an example of create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester.

My time management secret: I always always always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show what each event on my caldera is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is for appointments and green is for my sorority. Although I use white-out frequently, I cans see in bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it on [the previous] Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 1

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 1

Time management because 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 nights before a test and get away with it. This was not the case in college. I may have done this in high school, but in college I started typing up the notes after class. This helped me remember what I just did in class so that a week later when we had a test I was more likely to remember then as well.

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

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Fast Food Quiz

1. Which of the following contains the MOST calories? c)
2. Which has the LEAST amount of fat? b)
3. How many calories and saturated fat grams are in the McDonald's Fruit'n Yogurt Parfait (contains yogurt, berries and granola)? b)
4. Which of the following "value" meals provides you with more than the average American's recommended TOTAL daily calorie intake, fat intake and sodium intake?  c)
5. The healthiest (LOWEST in calories and fat) dessert below is: b)
6. The healthiest (LOWEST in calories and fat) meal option below is: a)
7. Which of the following Taco Bell foods is HIGHEST in fat? d)
8. Which of the following sandwiches is HIGHEST in calories? c)
9. The McDonald's food below that is packed with the MOST trans and saturated fat is: a)
10. Which of the following breakfast items contains the fewest calories? c)

Define Excel arithmetic operators

+ Addition
- Subtraction
* Multiplication
/ Division
^ Power or Exponent

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Anon

When you have to make a decision you should just want you want or what your heart tells you

Work Together Part 3

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 not understand,  it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you time out so you are completing everything that needs to get done and leave to double check. Write things down and have a good time management skills. Ask for help is probably the biggest thing I can say though. If you don’t understand, go to office hours or find a classmate that does understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking that I would have to try harder to fall 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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-What I will do to improve my health is eat better and be active more yay

Work Together Part 2

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 plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time to get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second.

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Obesity

What are your thoughts on Obesity?
 Obesity really shouldnt be anyone one else's problems but the person who is obese. They caused it amoung themselves so why should we care. Let them do their own thing and let them be.

Work Together Part 1

Work Together

Part 1

I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do his 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 ever been assigned and I was a 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 work on this paper for weeks and weeks. Every night I would be doing research or writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being just less 12 pages but it was full on information. I turned it in and when I got it back a week or so later, I had  the first A+ of my college career. All my hard work paid off because I got the grade I deserved. I was really happy and proud of myself.

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Tiger Woods Summary

Tigers woods made his fame more important than his own family. It made him greedy in a big time of need by his brother who is suffering medical conditions and isnt able to pay the medical expenses and might even lose his house. He is trying to reach out to tiger woods to possibly help him pay for it but he will not reply. I personally believe this is just horrible that he will not help his own brother out even when he might die.

You Can Succeed Every Day Part 1

You Can Succeed Every Day

Part 1

My overall study method: I break up studying over several days and over the course of the evening and day. Cramming never works for me so I try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big test, but I never stay up much later than normal before tests. I know that if I take the test tired the next day I will not do as well as if I was rested.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade; I usually look over the test or paper to see what I did that the teacher did not want. Basically, I do not stress out about grades that much because for me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, if I do get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time a test is coming I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the questions.

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Effective Study Methods Part 2

Effective Study Methods

Part 2

My time management secret: My secret is to use time wisely. I know that on certain days I do not have time to run errands or hang out with friends even. Each minute of each day is used for something. One thing that works really well for me is to write everything down. I mean everything. I write down if I am going to email people, write letters, or study. it works for me to have a planner that goes by the day and shows me what I am going to be doing every day. Knowing what I have to do everyday helps me plan out my week and my days. If I  know that I don’t have time on Tuesday, I will try to get more things done on Monday or Sunday. I plan ahead, especially if I am going to be on the road for volleyball. When I am on the road, I bring my books and read on the bus/plane/hotel room. missing class is killer to make up from, but if you are upfront with your professors, they are usually nice about have to turn things in late or not being in classes.

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Andy Warhol

I think his style of art was very different and new at this time which made it unique