Student Success Statement

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

Joseph Smith

Reflection:

    I agree with this statement because if something that is good becomes popular everybody will start practicing it more and there would be less evil in the world. If less people went out to parties and started drinking there would be less fatal car accidents and more successful people. Also if more people were more respectful and honorable there would be less crimes. If there were more boy bands like the Jonas Brothers there would be less teenage pregnancies and less premarital sex since thy promote their purity rings.

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 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 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 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

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

Howard Cossell

Reflection:

    I agree with this statement because you should not desire to be popular if it means giving up you intergrity. Most people nowadays like to go out and have fun most of the time but it’s wrong. Having fun once in a while with your friends is okay but only with moderation. Also, for many teens they say they “find it hard” to say no to drugs because so many people around them are doing it and doing drug doesn’t make you any less smart that what you already are. But, they should also see other long term users who all are suffering and you are no better than them if you say yes to any drug of abuse.    

Successful Students

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

If you act 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 ocassionally, take notes, and ask questions Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get excited and enthusiastic.

8…. talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they 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 that 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 your peers. “Talk -learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning.

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High School Graduation

Pleasure or Pain

Reflection:

I think that the experiences in high school are unforgettable. You are young but at the same time you feel mature. These last four years in school are meant for us to get ready for the world of professionals and knowledge. When you graduate your parents are always proud of you because they feel they did a good job as parents in raising someone who could handle anything. So when we graduate it brings a feeling of satisfaction knowing you earned that diploma with your own hard work.

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 seats available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly see the worst seat for their educational dollars. Students who sit in the back could not 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 choose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility and anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying to not be part of the class, are you wasting your time? Push your hot bottons, 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 that you don’t understand? Ask the questions 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 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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Eating and Emotions

8 Very Often-- almost every other day
6 Often-- one to three times a week
4 Occasionally-- two to three times a month
2 Rarely--once every month to three months
0 Never


1. I eat foods that I know aren't nutritious.

6 Often

2. I eat meals or heavy snacks after 7 at night.

4 Occassionally

3. I'm afraid I'll gain weight.

8 Very Often

4. I eat when I'm not hungry.

2 Rarely

5. I eat foods my parents don't want me to eat.

2 Rarely
 

6. I'm self-conscious about how I look.

8 Very Often

7. When I'm bored or depressed I eat a lot.

4 Occassionally
 

 8. I go on eating binges.

0 Never

9. I eat until I'm uncomfortable.

4 Occassionally

10. I hide foods or sneak them.

0 Never
 

11. I eat because I feel "who cares"?

0 Never

12. I drink alcoholic beverages.

0 Never

13. I have uncontrollable urges of hunger.

0 Never
 

14. Feelings of anger or hostility overwhelm me.

8 Very Often

15. I indulge in sweets.

6 Often

16. I eat when I'm tired or overtired.

0 Never
 

17. I like to eat alone.

4 Occassionally
 

18. I use appetite suppressants.

0 Never

19. My parents made sweets available or used them for rewards.

0 Never
 

20. I eat and run.

6 Often

21. I don't have respect for myself or my body.

2 Rarely

22. I feel rushed or hurried.

6 Often
 

23. I have a snack or meal an hour before I go to bed.

4 Occassionally

24. I crave sweet foods.

6 Often

25. When I eat with other people, I feel self-conscious.

4 Occassionally

26. I gulp my food.

0 Never

27. I wish I looked like someone else.

4 Occassionally

28. I eat or drink in secret.

0 Never

29. I feel as if I'm in the middle of a struggle.

2 Rarely

30. I eat when I can't sleep.

0 Never

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Student Success Statement

“ The time is always is always right to so what is right.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Reflection:

     I agree with this statement because there should never be a set time to choose when to do right. That is your own decision an time should not be a problem because it not going to stop when you want it to. Change never ceases and you should not wait for it to do the right thing.

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 the questions later.

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 good grade.

     Successful students reflect well on their efforts of any teacher; if you have learned the 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 you 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

" 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:                

I agree with this quote because usually when a person feels bad after somehting they did that means they regret the action. Their conscience is telling them that what they did wasn't right and they shouldn't have done that.

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. You own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active class participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or you can actively listen, think, ask questions, 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 leanring the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.… have educational goals. Successful students gave legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life 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 mean mere 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 education goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a positive academic attitude. If you are Familiar with what these 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

"My strength is as the strength of ten

because my heart is pure"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Reflection:

     I agree with this quote because anybody can be physically stronger than someone else but it takes discipline to be pure. Many people at a young age fall victim to peer pressure from their friends because they believe that without their friends they are nothing. They forget that before they met their “friends” they were someone else.

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, 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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 CTW

A man named Jackie McConnell is famous for training many award winning Tennessee walking horses. A recent video has uncovered what he does to train these horses. He gets them to walk like that by putting many chemicals near the horse's ankle and wrap them so that they swell up and make them raise their hooves up in pain. They would also whip the horses. He faces charges because of this evidence. The Humane Society helped get this horrible video to bring him to justice.

Reflection:

I believe this man should receive a very strong sentence in jail. He deserves all the time he gets so he can reflect on all the damage he has done to these poor defenseless creatures. He may not regret it now but he will later when he sits alone in prison.

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: Everyone as their own writing styles. I generally come up with an idea and do massive amounts of research before I even think about writing. I then organize my 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 and I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I almost always find grammatical errors or phrases and sentences I just want to reward.

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 the work for it.

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  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 have multiple things due or to study for all at the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have 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 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 got 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 next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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My Food Journal

Morning (Time: 6:30 AM)

Food: Blueberries
Portion: 1
Calories: 83


Food:_____________
Portion:___________
Calories:___________



Food:_____________
Portion:___________
Calories:___________


Beverage:Coffee plus milk
Portion:1 cup
Calories: 50

Snack(Time 10:00 AM)

 

Food: Smuckers
Portion:______1_____
Calories:___150________


Beverage:___Milk________
Portion:______1________
Calories: ______122__________

Snack(Time___3:00 PM__________)

Food:_______Mole______
Portion:_____1 1/2______
Calories:__300_________

Food:_____________
Portion:___________
Calories:___________

Beverage:____Orange juice_______
Portion:______2________
Calories: ________350________

Dinner (Time__________)

 

Food:__pancakes w/syrup___________
Portion:_____2______
Calories:_____270______

Reflect on Your Day
Circle Y for yes and N for no

• Did you eat something today only because of habit? Y/N
• Did you skip ant meals today? Y/N
• Did you go longer than four to five hours without eating? Y/N
• Did you eat too little in the morning? Y/N
• Do you eat more at night than at any other time? Y/N
• Did you eat a lot of high fat foods such at whole dairy, fried foods, and desserts? Y/N
• Did you eat the same foods as you do every other day? Y/N
• Did you eat accordind to mood rather than hunger today? Y/N

If you answered yes to one or more questions, take some time to plan how you can avoid these problems in the future.

Student Success Statement

" Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will 

 run after you"

James Freeman Clark

Reflection: 

I agree with this statement because when you do good you feel good. For example, people who give back to their community or religion are always some of the happiest people you could find. When you are a good person you have a clear conscience. You can always do something good for yourself too. For example, some people have bad vices and they can see how much it has destroyed their lives so they seek for help. When that person gets clean and quits they tend to be really happy and they also radiate happiness which other people feel. When you have good intentions with everything you do you know things will turn out okay.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 2

My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of test 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 make 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 in my calendar 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 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 I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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