Student Success Statement #33

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
This statement is trying to say that we have to make popularity a good thing and a sound thing not a bad thing. An example is when you study instead of taking you're shortcuts.

Successful Students 9

Successful Students 9

, 9. . .  do 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 known as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and even a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exam 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. Alson’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective 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 accountable opportunities.

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Student Success Statement #32

Student Success Statement
"What's right isn't always popular."What's popular isn't always right."
-Howard Cosell
What i think this statement is trying to say is that being popular isn't right at all times. For ex: bad words. But choosing the right is a good thing but it isn't used so much.

Successful Students 7-8

Successful Students 7-8

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 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 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 and oral study group, pretend you’re teaching peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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Successful Students 5-6

Successful Students 5-6

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 close 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 your learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll have to learn later and less time it will take because you won’t have to include some decipliering 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 #31

Student Success Statement
"The time is always right to do what is right"
-Martin Luther King Jr.
This statement, to me means that you should always do what's right. What's the point doing something bad. Everywhere you go you do what's right, never what's wrong.

Successful Students 3-4

Successful Students 3-4

3 . . . ask questions. Successful students as questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge 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 for 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. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, you share the same interests, the same goals… in short your teammates. Get to know your professor. You’re the most valuable players on the 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 #30

Student Success Statement # 30
" 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
This statement is comparing what wrong is, and what right is. The meanings are different, always choose the right.

Successful Students 1-2

Successful Students 1-2

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. 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 participation 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 college student. If your 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 then 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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Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects; Reality it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for all the time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 tests on Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start Studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other tests. My overall study method; I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade; if I received a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t prepare properly or I didn’t use the right study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the nest exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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Student Success Statement #29

Student Success Statement
"There is no instinct like that of the heart"
-Byron
I think this statement is trying to say that, when something tells you to do something bad it's not your instinct that's telling you to do it, it's YOU.

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 an additional study material they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of 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 or 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 any calendar if 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 frequency, I can see in bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it [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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Student Success Statement # 28

Student Success Statement #28
" There is no set path, just follow your heart"
-Anon
I think this statement means that you don't have the path you you need to follow your heat so you can build it and then end up where you wanted to go to be successful.

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 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, 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 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

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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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 stack, but I will if I know that my grades 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 worked 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 under 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 received 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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Student Success Statement #27

Student Success Statement
" Try a little harder to be a little better"
- Gordon B. Hinckley
What I think this statements is saying is that you have to try your best to get the hang of it. If you don't try at all how would you ever get the point of it?

You Can Succeed Everyday Part 2

You Can Succeed Everyday Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: I try to outline before I write because otherwise I forget what I am supposed to be talking about. I try not to leave then until the last minute because then I will just goof up the work. A lot of times I just write what I feel. Teachers like your opinion and if you can find something from the reading or research that relates specifically to your life, they like it even more because it allows you to take ownership of your work. I write things that I want others to read; not things I have to write because the teacher said so.

How I succeed in team projects: Personally. I do not like working on group projects, especially ones that I worked on high school. However, when it’s required to work in a group, usually I try to lead. I like  taking  the  lead  because  then  I know that  my grade  will  be  a good one. I do well in school, I always have and I don’t plan on changing that anytime soon, so when I need to work with people who maybe don’t care as much as I do, or they have more time to waste on things other than the project, I try to be in charge. That way I know that things are going to get done on time and that I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in a group of people who all want to work, then it is a different story.

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Student Success Statement #26

Student Success Statement
" I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness i can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall never pass this way again."
- Etienne de Grellet
I think this statement is trying to say that, anyone can show kindness or can be good and anyone can show it. But if they decide to neglect it or defer it they would be known as someone who isn't a good person.

Effective Study Methods Part 3

Effective Study Methods Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects tests; When I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 50 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of a project that I know will not take me very long. I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I am really in a crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or at night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel like I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a shorter period of time more often for it to sink in.

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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. Line on 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 every day 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 a killer, to make up from, but if you are upfront with your professors, they are usually nice about having to turn things in late or not being in classes.

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My vacations

What i did during my 3 weeks off, was go to my friends house i slept over for 2 days and it was a lot of fun. we slept very late. i went to a party with some friends and family on new years and we were dancing, laughing and just having so much fun. I would play games all night long and end up sleeping very late. My vacations were really fun. We went to the beach once and we stayed their till the next day, it was really cold and i wanted to go home. On Christmas, we had freinds and family come over we all ate and then we starting talking about when me and my little sister were small and the weird things we would do. Then when the clock strucked d 12 we started unwrapping our gifts.

Effective Study Methods Part 1

Effective Study Methods Part 1

My test study method; When it comes time to study for the test, I usually start 2-3 days before the test. I go through my notes and make flashcards on what was important for those sections, playing special attention to what the teacher said would be on the test if there was a review season. Also, I go through the book and read the inset stories and add to my flashcards. If there are practice problems or online assignments or old tests. I use those to help me study for the test as well. Once the test is over, I keep the flashcards so that I have them for the next test or for the final. Flashcards are a marvelous times- spared rehearsal. If you forget something, it is because you haven’t repeated it enough times for an extended period of time. Repetition is a law of learning; therefore, to learn and remember, to recall. It is mandatory that you repeat over and over the things you desire to learn and remember. You may be thinking “oh no, repeating something.” You need to get used to it. For example, the more you practice a song on a piano, the better you become at playing the song. Learning and remembering is like playing the piano-the more you practice saying or doing it the better you can remember it. Look now at what you remember. You remembered it because you have repeated it numerous times since first being exposed to it. So, practice rehearsing those things you desire to remember , and they will stick with you.

Practice—Proficiency---Pleasure                                                                         

The better you remember, the more pleasure you obtain from studying and learning.

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