Tips From College Students

Tips From College Students

Tips from High School Students to Prepare for College.

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

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

                    III.            One of the biggest transitions between high school and college is development of time management skills – student must learn to balance school and social life.

                             IV.            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.

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

                                          VI.            Learn to read-summarize and outline reading.

                                                                         VII.            Learn to take notes in class.

                                                                                                                   VIII.            Learn to study.

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

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

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

                             XII.            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.

“I think the most important thing to let high school students 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 pertinent, I wouldn’t bother 

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I.”

Reflection: Dam my niqqa I truly don’t know what u tryna say.

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 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, 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 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 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.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Helen Keller

Reflection: I think this statement means or is tryin to say is that with a group of people more can be accomplished and if your solo hardly anything can be accomplished. 

7 Habits of highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of highly Successful Teens

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. 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 happen. It’s a process. You have to get there. And the foundation of getting there is this: learn to celebrate differences.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Sean Covey

Refection: People want to be popular so they forget about others and other things that are more important than those that are bad. Example: Someone wants to be cool in school so they behave bad don’t do their work n are just a pain in the neck but what they don’t know is that they are hurting their education.

7 habits of highly successful teens Habit 5

7 habits of highly successful teens

Habit 5

5. Seek the first to understand, and then to be understood because most people don’t.

Why is this habit key to communication? It’s because the deepest need in the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are--- a 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 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).

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