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

Reflection: This statement means we should choose the right at all times.

Successful Students 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 that study skills specialist agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, last-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 in 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. 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 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.

Choose the Right!

Student Success Statement.

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

Howard Cosell

This quote means

We should choose the
Right!

Even though it’s not

Popular

Because being popular

Isn't always the Right. 

1)I eat foods that i know aren't nutritious.
2
2)I eat meals or heavy snacks after 7 at night.
2
3)I'm afraid ill gain weight.
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4)I eat when I'm not hungry.
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5)I eat foods my parents don't want me to eat.
2
6)I'm self-conscious about how I look. 
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7)When I'm bored or depressed I eat a lot.
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8)I go on eating binge.
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9)I eat until I'm uncomfortable.
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10)I hide foods or sneak them.
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11)I eat because I feel "who cares"?
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12)I drink alcoholic beverages.
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13)I have uncontrollable urges of hunger.
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14)Feelings of anger or hospitility overwhelm me.
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15)I dulge in sweets 0
16)I eat when im overtired 0
17)I like to eat alone.2
18)I use 0
19)0
20)I eat and run.
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21)I dont have respect for myself and my family.
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22)I feel rushed or hurried.
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23)I have a snack or meal an hour before i go to bed.
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24)I crave sweet foods.
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25)When I eat with other people i feel self conscious. 
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26)I gulp my food.
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27)I wished i looked like someone else.
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28)I eat or drink in secret.
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29)I feel as if i am in the middle of a struggle.
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30)O eat when i cant Sleep.
0

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. 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 would be dong 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 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 the less time it will take 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.

Student Success Statement

"the time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Reflection: this means we should always do the right. Never do the bad. because if you choose the wrong there will be a consequence. 
ex. Walk a old lady across the street.
ex.#2 
Help old carry stuff. 

Successful Students 3-4

3.  . . . ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two 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 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, and you share the same interest, 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.  

Student Success Statement

“I know only what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

Ernest Hemingway

Reflection: This means to do the right and after we will be moral. Do the wrong and after we will be immoral. 

Successful Student 1-2

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual captivity. 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, and 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 cost 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 aspiration 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 I 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 tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can, and will!

Choose the Right

Student Success Statement

Jackie McConnell

The man who owned beautiful horses.

Made them suffer, he hurt them.

All the horses were trained wrong.

They got a ribbon from the 99.

He was caught on tape abusing the horse. When the ABC news talked to him, he said no comment to everything.

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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 before I ever 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. This is the easiest 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.

Choose the Right 

• Did you eat something today only because of habit? No
• Did you skip any meals?No
• Did you go longer than four to five hours without eating? No
• Did you eat too little in the morning? No
• Did you eat a lot of high-fat foods, such as whole diary,fried foods, desserts? No
• Did you eat the same foods as you do every other day? No
• Did you eat according to mood rather than hunger? No

My Food Journal

Morning (Time:______)

Food:______________________________

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Portion:_____________

Calories_____________

Food:______________________________

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Portion:_____________

Calories_____________

Food:______________________________

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Portion:_____________

Calories_____________

Beverage:______________________

Portion:___________________

Calories___________________

Snack (Time:____________)

 

Food:______________________________

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Portion:_____________

Calories_____________

Fast Food Quiz

1) Which of the following contains the MOST calories?
c)

2) Which has the LEAST amount of fat?

d)

3)How many calories and saturated fat grams are in the Mc.Donalds fruit yogurt parfait?

a) 

4)Which of the following "value" meals provides you with more than the average Americans intake and sodium intake?

c)

5) The healthiest dessert below is: 

b)

6)The healthiest meal below option below is: 

C)

7)Which of the following Taco Bell food is HIGHEST in fat?

D)

8)Which of the following sandwiches is HIGHEST in calories?

B)

9)The Mc.Donalds food below that is packed with the MOST trans and sautured fat is: 

A)

10) Which of the following breakfast items contains the fewest calories? 

A)

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 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 notes after class. This helped remember me remember what I just went over in class then when I had a test then when I had 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 each class—even if it meant carrying a planner with me at all times was a big part of my success.

“There is no set path, just follow your heart.”

Anon

This means

People can’t command us

We should do what’s right.

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 need 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!

Choose the Right  

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 with 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 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 on writing. I put so much effort into this paper. It ended up being just fewer than 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.

Choose the Right

Summary of Tiger Woods

Reflection: A Tiger wood is a great person. He is a great golfer, he shows sportsmanship. Not everybody is perfect but, tiger woods never cheats in a game he doesn’t cause at the opponents if he loses.

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 test. 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 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 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.

Andy Warhol

What do Andy Warhol’s paintings say about commercialism?

His paintings say, look at this fine art, he uses a lot of neon colors. Andy Warhol noes how to paint so good that people like to look at them.