Student Success Statement

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

I think this is a very wise saying. It should be done by all. The people who abide by this are definitely choosing the right. People have to make things such as drinking and other reckless behaviors unpopular, and things like being kind and having good manners popular.

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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 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 it better but didn’t. Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelon s 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 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!!!

 

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Student Success Statement

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

-Howard Cosell

This statement is true. Sometimes the right thing to do isn’t a very popular choice, and people may find themselves out casted because they choose the right. An example of this is cursing, many people do it, it’s popular, but it’s not the right thing to do. The right thing to do would be not to curse, and that would be the less popular option. However, just because something is popular doesn’t mean you should do it, the right thing to do remains the right thing to do regardless of its popularity.

 

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7. Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their 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 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 occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. Talk about what they’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can 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 the 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, readings, 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 result in more learning.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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Reflection

Reflection

High school graduation can either be a good or bad experience depending on whether you choose the right or choose the wrong. If you choose the right, graduation will be a good experience for you, you’ll get to be awarded for your hard work. However, if you choose the wrong, graduation will be a bad experience, because you won’t be graduating at all, all that choosing the wrong adds up and you’ll be left out when it when graduation time comes around.

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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 educational 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 the efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not 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 your notes you don’t understand? As 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 minds helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, the less you’ll 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!

 

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

I agree with this quote, there is always room to do more right, there will always be an option to do the right thing, and it should always be chosen.

For example, if you see some sort of injustice, the time to speak out against it would be now, because that's the right thing to do.