Student Success Statement #47

Student Success Statement

"Success is dependent on effort."

-Sophocles, Greek dramatist

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that you should always do the right thing and never choose the wrong because doing the right thing is a very important thing to do.

How to Take on College Studying Part 2

How to Take on College Studying

Part 2

 

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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 desk place-- 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 fellow students are available for discussion.

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

Improve Your Study Habits

Here are 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 thoughts at your most productive time of 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.

Choose the Right!!

Jenna Huff

Jenna Huff

I think that Jenna Huff did the right thing in helping the other runner from the other school because she did the right thing. She did what she felt was the right thing to do. Even though she could have won the race she didn't want to leave the other runner behind just because she had injured herself. She also risked getting disqualified she didn't care because she knew that she did the right thing.

                                               

How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

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Part 1

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 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.

Being 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. Than make a schedule.

·      Figure out what blocks of time you have available throughout the day, in the evening and on weekends.

·      Consider what time of day you are most alert-- there are mornings people and night owls-- and try to schedule your studying accordingly.

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

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Student Success Statement #46

Student Success Statement

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

-Alex Linares

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that people should choose the right because choosing the right is always the best thing to do. If people choose the right they will end up going far because they will have nothing to regret. For example if someone does the right thing instead of the wrong thing they will not feel good because they know that they should have done the right thing but they didn’t.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

Tips 5-10

Tip 5. Review Your Notes Every Day.

Reviewing helps you reinforce what you've learned, 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’s Sleep.

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

Tip 7. Communicate Your Schedule to Others.

If phone calls or text messages are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at a certain time of day and not to expect a response at another time.

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 evening 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 that importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

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Student Success Statement #45

Student Success Statement

“It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

-Anon

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that it is better to be all by yourself than to be with a group of friends that will just make you choose the wrong. Sometimes it is good to be alone so that you can think for yourself for a while.

10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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                                                Tips 1-4

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 lifestyle, you’ll have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some tips for taking control of you 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’re commuting on the bus or train, use the time to get some reading done.

Tip 3. It’s Okay to Say No.

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

Tip 4. Find the Right Time.

You’ll work more efficiently if you figure out when you do your best work. For example if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait to do it until late at night.

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Tips From College Students

Tips From College Students

Tips for High School Students to Prepare for College

1.  Be prepared to do a lot of reading in college.

2.  Learn time management: use a calendar and plan how to use your time while still in high school, keep a calendar of all exams and paper due dates.

3.  One of the biggest transitions between high school and college is development of time management skills- students must learn to balance school and social life.

4.  Be prepared to discipline yourself, as the temptation to slack could be great. If you miss 4-5 classes in a semester you may not make it through the semester successfully.

5.  Being sick affects your ability to be a student- and remember that community living contributes to the cold/flu session.

6.  Learn to read- summarize and outline reading.

7.  Learn to take notes in class.

8.  Learn to study.

9.  Start the college and scholarship search as early as possible.

10.                   Take as many science, math, English, and foreign language courses as you can; they build a foundation for college.

11.                   Participate in volunteer and community service programs. It helps with scholarships!

12.                   Take advantage of the advanced classes offered in high school.

13.                   Think about what characteristics in a university are of most importance to you (climate, environment, degrees offered, size, location, etc.) before making a final decision about attending college. Visit them if possible.

Advice from University of Portland Students

1.  “I think the most important thing to let high school students to know is not to overlook anything. When I was in high school I often asked myself, “Why do I need to know this?” then if I didn’t think it was persistent, I wouldn’t bother to study. But in college, all those seemingly unneeded tools come together in the real life (e.g.: finding an intersection of those two lines in algebra is later important in cost/revenue calculations). In the way of classes, learning to read and write well is very important. 

Student Success Statement #44

Student Success Statement

"Improvement begins with I."

-Anon

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that someone can only be a person if they improve and not get worse. Sometimes people do a lot worse than they actually get the chance to do. for example, if people sometimes do something wrong and then they do a lot better, they are being a good person.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 7 Part 2

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 wrong, your conscience will prick you and create regretful sensation 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 direction, even truth north, your personal compass, your heart, will point you in the true north, the exact directions and path you need to trod.

4) Soul: Study scriptures and other sacred literature daily. In other words, feed your spirit because your physical body needs temporal food to survive. Pondering, meditation, and reflecting are excellent Soul-Sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a diary or a journal. Writing helps you focus and make good decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving your body (physical fitness), your mind, your heart, and your soul.

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7 habits of highly successful teens habit 7

    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 themselves. 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 key dimensions of life- body, mind, heart, and soul

1.     Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Get plenty of rest 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. Then each week. Ask intelligent questions. Observe. Develop your mind though positive “self-talk.”

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Student Success Statement #43

Student Success Statement

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

Helen Keller

Reflection:

I think that this statement by Helen Keller is trying to say that people that are with more people can do much more than people that are alone. For example, it is better to have more people helping than it just being one person. Sometimes people say that it is better to work alone but that is not always the best thing to do because with more people the work gets done much faster.

7 Habits if Highly Successful Teens Habit 6

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6: Synergize

Synergy is achieved when two or more people work together to create something better than either could 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. Synergy allows teens to value difference and better appreciate others. Synergy 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. Synergy 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. It’s not just the drums, or the guitar, or the sax, or the vocalist, it’s 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, just different.

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Student Success Statement #42

Student Success Statement

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

-Sean Covey

Reflection: 

I think that this statement by Sean Covey is trying to say that when people want to fit in they do thing that they normally won’t and once they start to do those things they can’t stop and they lose track of what was important to them before. For example, if someone that has a good life ahead of them and out of nowhere they start to hang out with bad people and then finally lose track of what they are going to do they just give up and forget about their dreams and thing that are important.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Students Habit 5

7 Habits of Highly Successful Students

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 listening.

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, on-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t 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 know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart, and ears. 7 present of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or 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. Listen to learn and learn to listen.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood-- LISTEN.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 4

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 encourages 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 accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and tough 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. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking win-win is the good feeling that brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill 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 #41

Student Success Statement

"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible."

Ezra T. Benson

Reflection:

I think that this statements is trying to say that people cannot do the wrong thing and think that is was a good choice. people need to do the right thing in order to feel good about what they did. For example, if people do the right thing they will get something good out of it. if people decide to do the wrong thing they won't get the same goodness out of it.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 3

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 3

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Habit three is about Will and Will Not power. This habit helps teens prioritize and manage their time so that they focus o 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. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with things that are:

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

Quadrant 1: Things that are Important and Urgent

Quadrant 2: Things that are Important but not Urgent

Quadrant 3: Things that are Not Important but are Urgent

Quadrant 4: Things that are 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 our time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. The results for living in  Quadrant 2 are:

1.Control of your life

2.Balance

3.High Performances

So, in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is to shift as much time as possible in Quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

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Student Success Statement #40

Student Success Statement 

"The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeed 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 precedeth all others is-- 'I will form good habits and become their slaves.' "

-Og Mandino

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that the only difference between people who have failed is of what they failed doing. If someone did the right thing and they  chose the right thing to do it is different than a person that chose the wrong and big time failed. Sometimes people fail doing the right thing but that isn't as bad as failing by doing the wrong thing, because if someone failed by doing the right thing then that means that they at least tried to do the right thing.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 2

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 2

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

If teens aren't clear of 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 eyes on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quite until you have realized the achievement of 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- that you will receive your diploma honestly and with integrity- that you earned it with perfect honesty.

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Student Success Statement #39

Student Success Statement

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force.”

-Elaine Maxwell

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that people decide their own choices and at the end it will only affect them. People choose to do what they want and will only do what is good for them. For example, if someone chooses to take drugs, at the end it will only affect them because it is their body not someone else’s. So do the right thing and you will not hurt yourself or anybody else.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens Habit 1

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 1

(By Sean Covey but modified)

Habit 1: Be Proactive.

Being proactive is the key to unlocking the other habits. Help your tee take control and responsibility for her life. Proactive people understand that they are responsible for their own happiness or unhappiness. 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 for their own ship; that they are in control, control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, decisions, goals, actions, and priorities. Proactive people are self-starters; they don’t wait to be told what to do, they press forward with enthusiasm toward the achievement of their assignment, their duties, their responsibilities, their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive 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 #38

           Student Success Statement 

"Keep you eyes on the prize."

-Anon

Reflection:

I think that this statement is trying to say that you should always do the thing that will help you later on in your life. if you choose the right then you will always have something good to look forward to. all you have to do is dot eh right thing that will bring you a better future than if you would do something else.

10 Tips for Student Success

10 Tips for Student Success

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

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

3.        Make sure the faculty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussions. Consult with your teacher during office hours.

4.        Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, team papers, etc.

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

6.        Know you campus resources. Visit your Academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the services and the programs offered by the Counseling Center, The Freshmen 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, sex and drugs. Visit the Health Offices 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 loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9.        Get involved in the 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 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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