Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Success is dependent on effort”

-Sophocles, Greek dramatist”

This quote means that when you try hard on something you going to get what you want. Everything is possible by trying hard and by don’t giving up. In order to have a great future, you'll need a goal, somewhere you're aiming. With effort, all is possible. Knowing that you tried, did your best, and succeeded is the best feeling only because you put effort in whatever it was that you were doing. For example, if you study so many years, putting in effort to get the best grades, and graduated, then it all pays off. Effort is key.

How to Take on Collage Studying

How to Take on Collage 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 desk 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 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 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

 

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/study/intense.html

Jenna Huff

Jenna Huff

Racing around 4 miles at a track meet gets very competitive. Jenna Huff was always behind Deb Guthhman as they both tried reaching the same goal, the finish line. A few yards from the finish line, Deb's hip bone decided to pop out; Jenna right behind her saw that she had stopped running and decided to do the right thing by helping her out. Jenna stopped, and encouraged Deb to reach the finish line, pushing her a step ahead. I believe Jenna did the nicest and most thoughtful thing anyone can do. She deserves the award she received. It's a heartwarming feeling knowing that there are people who still care about others EVEN if they're strangers. Jenna chose the right by helping Deb, and I'm sure Deb surely appreciates what she did for her.

 

How to take on collage studying

How to take on collage studying

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/collage-success/961.html

Part 1

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. Then make a schedule.

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

·         Consider what time of day you are most alert – there are morning 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 sitting down for marathon sessions.

 

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

 

 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Alex Linares

As long as you choose the more appropriate road, you know you are on your way to greatness. Say your family invites you to a restaurant you like, but you still have an assignment that is urgent. The correct response would be to decline the offer and continue with your assignment. If someone tells you something, that doesn’t bound you to what they said; it just means you have to take matters into your own hands and prove them otherwise.

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.

I phone calls or text messages are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at certain times of 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 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 the importance of each item. Then set realistic goals that are attainable.

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I.”

ANON

This quote has two meanings. Improvement literally begins with "I", but it also means that I, as a person, can start improvement starting with myself. For example, if I want to change the world, I'll have to make myself a better person to be able to help others.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habits 7

Part 2

Habit 7: Sharpen 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 sensations within your heat. 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 you directions, even true north, your 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, mediating, and reflecting are excellent Soul sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions in a diary or 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“If you do what’s right, you have no need to fear”

ANON

This statement is trying to tell you that when you choose the right you don’t have anything to be scared of. But when you choose the wrong the consequence r going to come up to you.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 key dimensions of life-body, mind, heart, and souls.

1.     Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, and alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing Exercise regularly and effectively. Get plenty of rest at night. Get to bed early at night and get up each morning. “Early to bed 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 through positive “self-talk.”

 

Choose the Right

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6

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 differences 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 dreams, 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Seam Covey

I believe this quote means that as somebody who is searching for popularity or tries to fit in, tends to ignore things that affect them. As you try so hard, you will eventually end up falling behind when just trying to go forward. For example, someone could try to be joining popular groups and the popular people may invite you to go out, not only are you blowing off your own friends, but you're also blowing off your homework and studying. You will lose track of what's really important and will one day end up regretting the choices you made.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habits 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—unique, one-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 percent 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. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

 

Seek first to understand then to be understood—LISTEN

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Habit 4

4. Think Win-Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that it 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 a 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 or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feeling. 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.

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

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 e habits. Good habits are the key to all 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

Well to me this shows how habits can have desirable or horrendous outcomes. When you constantly choose the wrong, you will form bad habits. If you constantly choose the right, you will form good habits. If you form good habits, then you will more likely be successful. For example, if you make vulgar language a habit, then you will end up with a not so successful future. However, if you choose to avoid that filthy language, then you will have the door to success and amazing treasure opened to you. Become a slave to good habits and the menial tasks will have paid off.

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 hos decision-making process.

 

“Keep your eye on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit 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.

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Elaine Maxwell

 

Every action, every thought, every breath is yours and yours alone. Nobody can make you do anything you don’t want to therefore; it is your own doing that chooses to act upon it. If you fail, then it is your fault. It’s not your neighbors fault or your partner’s fault. The same goes for your victory or success. If you win, you won because you chose to win. Your coach or your master did not somehow make it so you win; you won because you acted upon the urge to win. Everyone must learn to take responsibility for their own actions. Sometimes it is your own fault.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

 

Habits 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 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 of their own ship; that they are in control, control of their decisions, thoughts, choices, 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, and 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 initiative.

 

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Keep your eyes in the prize”

ANON

What I think this quote means is that you have to focus on your goal or what you're aiming for. It's an expression to encourage you or someone else to reach the limit.

 

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 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 teachers during office hours.

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

5.       Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Manage your time. Remember everyone has the same 169 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6.       Know your campus resources. Visit your Academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the services and programs offered by the Counseling Center, The Freshman 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 Office as needed.

8.       Work only as necessary. Try not the 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 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.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!