Successful students

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

If you can act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like your bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like your distracted and you’ll become distracted. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, act like an interested person: lean forward, put your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the person, 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 are learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends and 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 memory to long term memory. You really don’t know the material until you can put into words. So next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, reading, 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 results into more learning.

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high school graduation:pleasure or pain-
high school grad is when you finish and ccomplish everything inn high school and you are getting rewarded for such great work. So forth, when you do succeed you get pleasure, but when you do not do all the necesary work and you do not complete your course of high school, you deal with pain of the fact you are not graduating(with friends) at all.

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 education 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 to be a 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 the 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 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
"the time is always right to do what is right."
msrtin luther king jr.

my reflection: i believe this statement is true because you can always do what is right in your mind no matter what given time of day it is.

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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 benefit. The process helps you pay attention to your professor helps you 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 a foolish silence. It’s your choice.

4.    . . .learn that a student and 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 team mates. 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
my reflection: i think this statement is trying to say to do what you think is good to feel good an dnot bad.

Successful students

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitude 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! Responsible means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grades, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grade 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 own learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of the 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 motived by what they represent in terms of aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: what am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be seating her right now? Is there some better place I can be right now? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your “hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most interesting 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 them often, especially when you are tired 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
my reflection about this statement is that, this person is saying, they think that their heart is good and pure innocents, therefore they feel as though they are strong.

Study for multiple exams

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English, math, foreign language tips: practice—especially foreign languages. 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 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 ask your teacher for help. They have office hours for a reason-use them.

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tennesse walking horse trainers tortue horses
i think it was wrong of them to do what they were doing to those horses. it was animal cruelty.

Study for Multiple Exams

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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 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 or phrases 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

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for at the same 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 study for my next test on the second half of Friday 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 blogged down if I try to bust an all nighter.

How I have 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 sometimes 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
"seek to do good and you will that happinenss will run after to you."
james freeman clarke

my reflection about this statement is that when you do what is right, you feel glad about it.
So forth when you are happy it shows you have done what is right, according to yourself.
so if you what is wrong maybe happiness wont follow you.
thus the feeling of saddness is replaced with happiness.
when you try to do what is correct, the feeling of happiness will coem with you.
so i say all you do is what you feel is right and you can feel happy.

Sarah’s academic success story

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My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of test and 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 an 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 a 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 concepts focused on through-out 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 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 Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed how early I get things accomplished but that is not all I do.

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"american idol's" gentle giant jermaine jones disqualified for criminal past.

this story is about some man named jerimaine jones and how he got disqualified off the popular tv show called amercian idol. he was first qualified for being a contestant and he was making it up the chart of the show but once the producers found out about how "violent' his criminal record was, they had to disqualify him for the rules said so.

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 it wasn’t required) to better understand. 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 learned 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 had to learn was I had to adopt or change my study method according to the class. I couldn’t study for a religious class the same way I studied for a 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 path, just follow your heart" -anon
 my reflection for this statement is that it's meaning is to just do what you think is best to do.

Work together

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Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get a better grade: a big thing 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 u don’t do anything about it. Plan your time out so you can complete 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 the office hours or find a classmate that does understand and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to 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 within me to succeed. If that is not who you are, then hopefully the things that I have done can show you that success is something amazing to find! Good luck!

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Work together

Part 1

I can and will work as a 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 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 to 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 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 of information. I turned it in and when I got back a week or so later, I had received the first A+ of my college career. All my 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
"try a little harder to be a little better."
gordon b. hinckley
i think this statement is saying tha we need to try in order to succceed.

You can succeed everyday

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My strategies for the 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 them for the last minute because I will just goof up on the work. A lot of the times I just write what I feel. Teachers like your opinion and if you 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 own 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 writing in group projects, especially the ones I worked with in high school. However, when it is requires to work in a group, I usually try to lead. I usually like to take then lead because then I know that my grade will be a good one. I do well in school, I usually do and I don’t plan on changing that anytime soon, so when I need to work with people who 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 things are going to get done on time and I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in a group of people who all want to work, then that is a different story.

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report: woods ignoring sick half-brother

This report talks about how the sick half-brother of Tiger Woods needs his help. They say that they have been leaving messsages towards Woods of updates on how he has been, but yet he never has responded back to them.

i think what tiger did was real mean and he shouldnt have ignored his sick brother. he should have paid attention to his brother because he was dying and neede his help.

You Can Succeed Every Day

Part 1

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

How I 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 expected, I make sure that the next time the test is coming I study even more so I won’t be surprised by the question.

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Effective study methods

Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects/tests: when I have more than one project or test, I break up my studying. I will study for one test for 30mins. Or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of the 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 a time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or night. By breaking up the study for different sections, I feel like I get more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study for something on a short period of time more often for it to sink in.

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