Student success statement

Student success statement

“Success is dependent on effort.”

Sophocles Greek dramatist

 Reflection: In order for you to succeed in life you have to put in a lot of effort or else you won’t get anywhere. For example if you go to the gym every other days and you really try your hardest you will see great improvement but if you just go to socializes you won’t succeed.

Try your hardest!

How to take on college studying

How to take on college studying

Part 2

Choose where to study

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and the type of work you are planning to do.

·         The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough dask space--- usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.

·         For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where follow student are available for discussion.

·         When you are reading books chapters or working on a research paper, you are probably better off in a less social environment.

Improve you r study habits

Here at simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying.

·        Have a routine for where and when you study.

·        Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each study session.

·        Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.

·        Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste time looking at material but not absorbing it.

·        Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.

·        Keep up with the workload and seek help when you need it.

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Extreme Sportmanship

Extreme Sportmanship 
Summary: There were girls runnning in coss country and since they have been training for months after months these girls wanted to win badly. Deb was the girl that got hurt running and Jenna was the winner of the race.
Relection: Deb lost:(

How to Take On College Studying

How to Take On College Studying

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Develop Good Study Habits.

In college, you’ll need to build on the study skills that you learned in high school. The demands of a college class are probably more rigorous than those you are used to.

You can succeed by knowing what to expect in college and how to handle it.

Think of college as a full time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on class, labs, study groups and doing homework.

Be organized and using your time well are essential. Learn more about time management, and use the guidelines below to develop your study skills.

Decide When to Study

Work out about how many hours you need to study every day. Then make a schedule.

Figure out what blocks of time you have available through-out the day, in the evenings and weekends.

Consider what time of day you is most alert – there are mornings people and night owls – and try to schedule your study’s accordingly.  

Think about whether you do better studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down for a marathon sessions.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Choosing the right is always the right thing to do.”

--Alex Linares

There will never in this entire world or universe be a day in where choosing the right will be the wrong thing, vice versa. You see, choosing the right is and always will be a good and righteous thing to do. If you choose the right you will know that what you have done Is the right thing. You will never have to feel bad for doing something that is right.
For example if you pick up someone else’s trash, yes you might be disgusted or won’t want to do it, but if you do, you will realize that what you have just done is something good and purely good. Another in depth example would be such as getting blamed for committing a crime that you did not do; but the defense will give you a lower sentence and less jail time if you admit to the crime.
What should you do? Accept the offer even though you did not commit the crime or leave it and keep your honesty and pride? Well, do what is right! Say no, and keep your innocence. And that right there is the best example of someone struggling but always turning to choose the right, because that person knows that what he did is right

        

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for 

Students

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Tip 5. Review your notes every day.

Reviewing helps you reinforce what you’ve learn, so you need less time to study before a test.  You’ll also be ready if you get called on in class or have to take a pop quiz.

Tip 6. Get a good night sleep.

Your brain needs rest to perform at its peak. Lack of sleep makes the day feel longer and your tasks seem more difficult.

Tip 7. Communicate your schedule to others.

If phone calls or text message are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available during certain times of the day and not to expect a response at other times.

Tip 8. Become a taskmaster.

Give yourself a time budget and plan your activities accordingly. Figure out how much free time you have each week before you add any commitments.

Tip 9. Don’t waste time agonizing.

Instead of agonizing and procrastinating, just do it. Wasting an entire evenings worrying about something that you’re supposed to be doing is  not productive, and can increase your stress.

Tip 10. Determine your priorities.

You can’t do everything at once. Establish the importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"It's better to be alone than to be in bad company"                                                  ANon 

Reflection: When my grandpa was alive this is something he 

always used to say. He would say it is spanish but still he

 would say it. He said because he wouldnt want to waste his

 time just being with people he didnt like so he would just 

not talk to them or be with them 

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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Organizing your life

Managing your time well is an important element of success—especially if you’re a student. If you set priorities that fit your needs and life style, you’ll have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.

Tip 1. Make a to-do-list every day.

Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. And don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments. 

Tip 2. Use spare minutes wisely.

When you are commuting on a bus or train, use you time to get some reading done.

Tip 3. It’s ok to say no.

If your friends ask you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that its okay to say no. Keep your short- and long term priorities in mind.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Improvement starts with an I”

ANON

Reflection: This is one of those statements that shouldn’t be taken literally.  

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 7

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7

Part 2

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

3. Heart: always do what is right so your heart, your conscience, will feel peaceful, when you do the wrong, your conscience will prick you and create regretful sensations within your heart. When you do what you honestly feel, you won’t have any regrets. Your heart is your internal compass-it gives you direction and discernment. Just like a magnetic compass gives directions, even true north, you’re personal

compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and paths you need to trod. 4.

Soul: study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your spirit needs spiritual food just like your physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditating, and reflecting are excellent Soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts feelings aspirations concerns and decisions in a diary journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions. Get into the habit of daily improving your body.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 7 Part 1

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 7 Part 1

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Teens should never get too busy living to take time to renew them. When teens “sharpen the saw” they are keeping their personal self-sharp so that they can better deal with life. It means regularly renewing and strengthening the four keys dimension of life-body, mind, and soul.

1.       Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruit, veggies, legumes avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Getting plenty of rest at night. Get to bed early at night and get up early each morning. “Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

2.       Mind. Think positively. Read. Study. Think. Analyze. Seek to read a good book each month. Ask questions. Observe develop your mind through positive self-talk.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 6

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6

 Habit 6: synergize

Synergize is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either cloud alone. Through this habit, teens learn it doesn’t have to be “your way” or “my way” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergize allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergize is the reward, the delicious fruit you’ll taste as you get better at living the other habits, especially at thinking Win-Win and seeking first to understand. Learning to synergize is like learning

to form V formations with others instead of trying to fly through life solo. You’ll be amazed at how much faster and farther you’ll go. Synergize doesn’t just happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: learn to celebrate differences.

A good band is a great example of synergy. Its not just the drums, or the guitar or the sax or the vocalist, its all of them together that make up the “sound”. Each band member brings his or her strengths to the table to create something better than each could alone. No instrument is more important than another.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“So often in our in your quest to me more popular and to be part of the “in group,” we lose sight of things that are far more important.”

-Sean Covey

REFLECTION: WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO BE POPULAR THEY DO ANYTHING AND THEY TRY A LITTLE BIT TO HARD TO GET THERE. FOR EXAMPLE SOME KIDS TRY TO HARD TO LOOK COOL THAT THEY’LL JUST FAIL THERE CLASS JUST TO DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING. OTHERS WONT DRESS FOR PE BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T WAN't TO BE SWEATY SO THEY RATHER GET AN ‘F’ THEN DO WHATS RIGHT.

choose the right !!!!!

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 5

5. Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood? This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skill there is: active learning.

Why is this habit the key to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are-a unique, expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, of the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than when we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood – LISTEN.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers Habit 4

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers

Habit 4

4. Think win-win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that is possible to create an atmosphere of win-win in every relationship this habit encourage the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually beneficial solution. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishment of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Winis a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and thought all at once. I won’t step on you, but I won’t be your doormat either. You care about other people and you want them to succeed. But you also care about yourself, and you want to succeed as well. Win-Win is abundant. It is the belief that there’s plenty of success to go around. It’s not either you or me. It’s both of us. It’s not a matter of who gets the biggest piece of the pie. Their’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all you can eat buffet. Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefits of thinking Win-Win is good feelings it brings on. The true test to whether you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternitivesis how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and feel you with negative feelings.

Win-Win will fill your heart with Happy and Serene thoughts. It will give you confidence. Even fill you with light. Think win-Win or no deal.

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Student Success Statement ctr

Student Success Statement
“You cannot do wrong and feel right.
It is impossible.”
Ezra T. Benson
Reflection: When you do something wrong you automatically feel bad, and there’s no way you can do bad and not feel the guilt. For example if you lie to someone you’re obviously going to feel guilty at some point.
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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: put first things first

Habit three is all about WILL and WILL NOT power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. Its living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deal with things that are:

Important or not important, urgent or not urgent, let’s look at the four quadrants of tie management.

Quadrant 1: Things that is important or Urgent

Quadrant 2: Things that is important but not urgent

Quadrant 3: Things that are not important but are Urgent

Quadrant 4: Things that is not important and not urgent.

1.Important & urgent	2.Important but not urgent
3.Not important but are urgent	4.NOT important and NOT urgent

Quadrant 2: is the ideal place to spend your time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. The results for living quadrant 2 are:

Control your life

2.   Balance

3.   High performance

So in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is to shift as much possible into quadrant a and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first. Keep your eyes on the prize.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which preceded all others is-‘form good habits and become their slaves.’ ”

Og Mandino

Reflection: this statement is so very true. Yes most definitely. Because it causing you to be successful yes most definitely. Very true. These habits lead to failure. OBEY the first last for example if there wouldn’t be not stop signs or law on how fast people can drive everyone would be crashing left and right.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 2

                       Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

 If teens aren’t clear about where they want to end up in life, about their values, goals, and what they stand for, they will wander, waste time, and be tossed to and fro by the opinions of others. Help your teen create a personal mission statement which will act as a road map and direct and guide his decision-making process.

“Keep your eye on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized that achievements for your prize. Then set another prize, another goal or desire that you would really like to achieve. Begin with the achievement of your prize in mind.  Visualize and then realize. Start by having a target in mind; know where you are going.

One prize or goal you definitely need to establish for yourself is the prize of an honorable graduation from high school-which you can earn it with perfect honesty.

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7 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TEENS-HABIT 1

7 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TEENS-HABIT 1

HABIT 1: BE PROACTIVE.

BEING PROACTIVE IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE OTHER HABITS. HELP YOUR TEEN TAKE CONTROL AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR HER LIFE. PROACTIVE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN HAPINESS OR UNHAPINESS. THEY DON’T BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS OR FEELINGS. PROACTIVE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE BALL IS IN THEIR COURT, THAT THEY ARE THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR OWN SHIP; THAT THEY ARE IN CONTROL, CONTROL OF THEIR DECISIONS, THOUGHTS, CHOICES DECISIONS, GOALS, ACTIONS, AND PRIORITIES. PROACTIVE PEOPLE PEOPLE ARE SELF-STARTERS; THEY DON’T WAIT TO BE TOLD WHAT TO DO, THEY PRESS FORWARD FOR THEIR ENTHUSIASM ACCORDING TO THEIR ASSIGNMENT, THEIR DUTIES, THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES, THEIR OBLIGATIONS. CHOOSING TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT IS THE RIGHT DECISION. OBEY THE RULES. OBEY THE LAW. OBEY THE COACH. OBEY THE SCHOOL POLICIES. OBEY YOUR PARENTS. OBEY WITH EXACTNESS, AND GREAT THINGS WILL COME TO YOU. BE PROACTIVE AND TAKE THE INITIATIVE.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Keeps your eyes on the prize”

Reflection: This means that you have to keep visualizing what you want in order to achieve it. For example if someone wants a fit and tone body with nice calf’s and asix-pack with cut up arms and a ripped back they have to idealize someone in order for them to imagine it in their heads and get it later with working out daily. Also you will get your gains and then you’ll get your prize which is a hot tone fit body! :)

Ten Tips For Student Success

Ten Tips For Student Success

St. Johns University

1.    Attend your classes. Remember in the words of Woody Allen ‘Seventy percent of success in life showing up’.

2.    Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their office hours are and how you contact them.

3.    Make sure the faulty know you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussions. Consult with your teachers during office hours.

4.    Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, term papers. Etc.

5.    Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Mange your time. Remember everyone has the same 168 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6.    Know your resources. Visit your academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the services and programs offered by the Counseling Center, the freshman center, the career center, the campus Ministry Office and the Student Life Office.

7.    Take care of your health. Get enough sleep. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Make informed and mature decisions about alcohol drugs and sex. Visit the health office as needed.

8.    Work only as necessary. Try not to exceed 20 hours during a school week. If possible work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9.    Get involved in campus activities. It will help you learn valuable skills, expand your social network and enhance your self-confidence. Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10.Keep your eyes on the prize. Clarify your goals. Know why you are in (high school or) college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

By: Sean Covey

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn't any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide “a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.”

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life changing decisions. As a parent, you are responsible to help them learn the principals and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, “teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say,” Covey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

Covey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Covey, wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s a chip off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping you teen understand and apply them:

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