Student Success Statement by Joseph Smith

Students 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:

We have to make everything that's good a habit to all people. Choosing the right is a good thing to talk about to other people because it makes us become good people, crime-free and obeying the law, but most importantly, we have to change people who have bad habits. Bad habits are what keeps people from becoming good. For example, nobody can call themselves good people if they are on a crime spree. In order to be good people, we have to leave everything that's bad and start doing the right thing, otherwise we are just bad people.

Successful Students: 9

Successful Student

9

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 than study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributes study is better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts known 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 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 to 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 Sucess Statement by Howard Cosell

Student Success Statement

"What's right isn't popular. What's popular isn't always right."

Howard Cosell

Reflection:

Many people believe that choosing the right isn't a very popular thing, but it is one of the most important things in life. When we choose the right, other people look at us and tell us, "That's not cool, man". But we know that some of the popular things are not right, for example, people think it's right to cuss, but really it is a terrible thing because it shows that we are people that choose the wrong. So even though choosing the right isn't popular for others, for us, it's very popular and it is the correct thing to do.

Successful Students: 7-8

Successful Students

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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 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 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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Report: High School Graduation - Pleasure OR Pain

High School Graduation - Pleasure OR Pain

Reflection:

When it is time for high school graduation, you must be prepared for it, but not in the last day, but sice the beginning of high school. In order to graduate, you need to have enough credits to graduate, so you work hard from day one. When the time comes to graduate, and you are not in the ceremony, you feel a lot of pain because you are looking at your friends up there, and not you. You feel suffering because you know you didn't put enough effort form day one. It is different when you do have enough credits to graduate. You feel a great feeling because you know tat all of your hard work in school paid off. Pleasure or pain - only you can decide how you want to feel at the high school graduation, either getting your diploma or sitting in the stands. YOU MAKE THE CHOICE!!!

Successful Students: 5-6

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 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 by Martin Luther King Jr.

Student Success Statement

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection:

If we think that he have a specific time to do everything that is right, think again. No matter what time it is, 5 in the morning or 10 at night, we can choose the right at any time. Doing the right thing doesn't have a time limit. If we that someone needs help and feel that we don't have time, there is always time for choosing the right. CTR time is all the time.

Student Success: 3-4

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 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 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 interests, 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 by Ernest Hemingway

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.

Reflection:

What happens to you when you choose the right? You get a good feeling in your heart that make you feel like a wonderful person. But what happens when you choose the wrong? You get a feeling of guilt inside of you that tells you you are not doing the right thing. We all must doing the correct things in order to feel like a good person. This statement is showing that feeling good is what you feel after you have done the right thing, while you feel bad after doing the wrong thing. If we keep on choosing the right, we won't have to feel any suffering. So stop doing the wrong and start doing the right.

Successful Students: 1-2

Successful Students

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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 desire.

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 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 the 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 by Alfred, Lors Tennyson

Student Success Statement

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Reflection: 

This statement is true because the more heart you have into something, the more strength you have. Having a heart shows that you are nothing more than a good person. Strength comes when you have shown to others that you have a kind heart towards others. But if you have no heart, you have no strengths because you have not shown that you deserve the strength to be a good person. The bigger the heart, the more the strength.

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 you. Or if you send a message a simple text to a friend think about it, can you translate that to German or Spanish? These are the little things will help.

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades I 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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Report: Tennessee Walking Horse Trainers Torture horses

Report: Tennessee Walking Horse Trainers Torture horses

I think this is one of the most inhumane things I have ever seen in my life. The way the trainer treated the horses was unbearable to watch. Treating a horse like that should be punished at every cost. Animal abuse is a terrible thing to do, but apparently, Jackie McConnell didn't care. He wanted to win millions at all cost. I think Jackie should be sentenced to jail for abusing a horse just for his own needs. Any abuse towards any animal is choosing the wrong. Animals have rights too and we shouldn't be treating them like this.

Study for Multiple Exams: Part 2

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone has their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research then sometimes prepare an outline before actually writing. I always print out the paper and come back to it the next day and reread it. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give my eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors and sentences I just want to reword.

How I succeed in team projects: Never assume someone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. Have regular meetings and have each member show their work, not just give you or the group their word for it.

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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: Really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see that I have multiple things due or to study for all the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and Part of Friday. Start Studying for my next test on the second half Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well as 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 to. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: If I receive 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 next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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Student Success Statement by James Freeman Clarke

Student Success Statement

"Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you."

James Freeman Clarke

Doing all the good things has its recompense, and choosing the right has that recompense that everyome wants in life, happiness. Happiness comes to you only when you choose the right, because all the things you do bring a smile to your face. It makes you feel like a better person just by doing the right thing. If you feel happiness when you do something right, then you know that you are on the right path. If you don't feel that you are finding happiness by choosing the right, keep doing the right things and you will eventually find happiness. Let happiness with you, and you will have a very happy life.

Two examples of finding happiness by choosing the right are:

1) Helping kids that are in need. You find that happiness when you realize that you are helping kids who need food and shelter, and you giving it to them is a wonderful thing.

2) Helping kids receive their education. Happiness comes when they graduate because you helped them to not give up on their dreams and to succeed all the way, so they could get a brighter future.

Sarah's Academic Success Story: Part 2

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

My test 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 or create different questions on the concept 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 calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is appointments, and green is for my sorority. Although I use white-out frequently, I can 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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Report: Disqualified for Criminal Past

Report: Disqualified for Criminal Past

He was wrong to hide his past a secret, especially all the things he did wrong. If he would've told the workers at "American Idol" about his criminal past, they would have probably made out a deal, but instead, he decided to stay low. He didn't tell the truth, which caused him to be disqualified. In the end, he ended up being a sore loser. Now, he has to think about what he did in his past so he won't make that mistake ever again.

Sarah's Academic Success Story: Part 1

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 what I was studying. I started taking excellent notes in class 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 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 a Religion Class the same way I studied for a Finance class. But making sure I had enough time to study for 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 by Anon

Student Success Statement

"There is no set path, just follow your heart."

Anon

Reflection:

Many people believe there is a path they need to take in order to make their lives much happier, but there is only one path that person they must take, and that path is in their heart. Your heart only wants you to do what's right, and if you listen to it, it will lead you to a path of happiness. Your heart will always be there when you need it, and if you have a good heart, good things will come out of it.

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 your 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 will 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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Report: Each at least 25 years in prison from Long Island, NY.

Report: Each at least 25 years in prison from Long Island, NY.

These people were choosing the wrong ever since they decided to join the gang. Being in a gang has a lot of consequences, and these 5 guys suffered those consequences. They did everything they wanted to do that was against the law: stealing, shootings and tagging, but in the end they discovered that being in a gang has its risks. Anybody who is in a gang has chosen the wrong path. People in gangs have been killed because of hate from another gang. Others were never let back into their houses because their parents forbid them. Choose the right and don't join gangs.

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 something about something. I had to argue in favor of or against something, but it would 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 by Gordon B. Hinckley

Student Success Statement

"Try a little harder to be a little better."

Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection:
We are all good at something but if we work harder on it, we start to get better until the point that we no longer mess up. For example, if we know how to choose the right, we need to try harder on ourselves to choose the right a little better. Once we do this, we will make it to the point where we no longer know how to choose the wrong, but intead we know how to choose the right.

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 forgot what I am supposed to be talking about. I try not to leave them 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 that I have to write because the teacher said so.

How I succeed in team projects: Personally, I do not like working in group projects, especially ones that I worked on in high school. However, when it is 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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Report: Woods Ignoring Sick Half-Brother

Report: Woods Ignoring Sick Half-Brother

I think this is one of the most saddest things to hear. His brother has a disease and instead of taking care of him, he ignores and goes out to play golf. Being a true brother is being there for him and responding to his every need. What Tiger Woods did is incorrect and I think he should spend more time with his brother and apologize to him for not being there for him when he needed him. I feel that Tiger Woods should consider himself a terrible brother.

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 tests, 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 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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