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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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible.”

Ezra T. Benson

Reflection: that if you do anything wrong anything little thing you can ever feel right about it. N if you do feel right youz a cooled hearted fool.

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 and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficulties. It’s living life according to what matters most.

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 not urgent	4 Not important and not Urgent

Student Success Statement

“Keep your eyes on the prize”

Anon

Reflection: I think this means that what ever you want in order to get it you gotta watch out for it.

10 Tips for Student Success

10 Tips for Student Success

                        I.            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.

6.  know your campus resources. Visit your Academics Dean office regularly. Become familiar with the services and the programs offered by the Counseling 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.

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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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“It’s not WHERE you live but How you live that counts. It’s not where you play the game but How you play the game that counts.”

Reflection: I think this thang right here means that It don’t matter if you live in a ugly house or place as long as you live good. N that it don’t matter how you play some game as long as you play right.

 

Profile of a Successful Student Part 1

Profile of a Successful Student

Part 1

http://www.plymouth.edu/office/online-learning/progfile-of-a-successful-student/

A successful student…

…takes responsibility for his/her own learning

Online learning can be powerful, stimulating, engaging experience for the student that can learn and think independently. However,

You will not have the kind of direct supervision you would in a classroom. Online learning therefore requires a significant commitment from you. All education comes to what you’re willing to invest in the experience—this particularly true in the online environment. Commitment, self discipline, and self motivation are all key qualities to ensure success in an online coarse!

…is comfortable and confident with written communication reading and writing are the basis of most online courses, so it’s critical that you feel comfortable with this form of communication.

While some courses contain modules that include videos or other activities, all of them require significant amounts of reading. And nearly all of your communication with your classmates and your instructor will be in writing. If these are weak areas for you, you will want to address those issues prior to enrolling or while enrolled an online course. The PSU Writing Center is available to assist you

…is willing to be a member of an online community

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

-Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: that no matter what good thing you do it will never fail you…….so choose the right niggas

Successful Students 10

Successful Students

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10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful students do not procrastinate. They have learned that time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An elemental truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be led, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. 1 study skill problem for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse-makers. Don’t make academic s harder on yourself than it has to be. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it! The 10 items listed above are paraphrased from an article by Larry M Ludewig called Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appeared in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

“Learning Technologies and Online Education”

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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 unsounded (and not good).”

Joseph Smith

Reflection: Ay Mr. Haymore I truly don’t understand this statement.

Successful Students 9

Successful Students

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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 specialist 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 in four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory effort 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

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

This means that popular is sometimes bad. And what’s right isn’t always popular.  

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 7. . . . .If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings. Act like your bored and you’ll produce those feelings. Act like your disinterested and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating In the class room, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, and maintain eye contact with the professor, nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

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Successful Students

Successful Students

5.       Don’t sit in on the back of the room. Successful student minimize classroom distractions the interference with the learning

Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly want the best seat for their education dollars. Students that sit in the back can’t possibly be there professors teammate (See no.40).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 that they choose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility and anonymity, both in which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, then are you wasting 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 meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you learn more. The more you learn then, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reflection: That there will always be time whenever you fell like choosing the right.

Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Ernest Heminway

Reflection: I think this means anyone who accomplishes a moral act feels good when they do. And people who choose immoral acts always feel bad. 

Successful Students 1-2

Successful Students

1-2

Successful students exhibit a combination of successful students….

1.                       Are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you actively listen, think, question, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2.                       Have education goals. Successful students have legitimate goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: what I am doing here? Why have I chosen to be my presence here mean to me? Answer to these questions represent your “hot buttons” and are, without a doubt, the most important factors in your success as a college student. If your educational goals are truly your, 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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure”

Reflection: this means since he’s a good person his strength means more than anyone who’s strength is poor.

Study for Multiple Exam Part 3

Study for Multiple Exam

Part 3

English, math, foreign language tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class if you are just showing and doing the work. But if you are in your room and look at objects and try to say them in the language you are learning it actually helps. Or if you send a simple text to a friend think about it, can you translate that a German or Spanish? These are the little things that will help. Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better in  college: time management and organization are critical key factors to succeed in college.

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Video of Jackie McConnell

Video of Jackie McConnell

Reflection: I think this video was disgusting that guy is so cruel who would do such a thing. How can a person be so evil. They should do what he did to the horse’s and see if he likes it. He did that to them why not to him. He should pay for what he did.

Study for Multiple Exam Part 2

Study for Multiple Exam

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. I have to give my eyes a break from it, and if I just wrote it I think it looks perfect. But if I took at it a day later 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.

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Study for Multiple Exams Part 1

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 1

How I study for multiple exams, deal with multiple projects: Really it is my time management that I explained above. If I see I have multiple things due or to study for all the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test Monday, and 2 test Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other test.

My overall study method: I try to break it up over several days or at least two. I get bogged down if I try to pull an all nighter.

How I’ve overcome an initial bad grade: if I receive a low grade I probably knew it was coming because I didn’t prepare properly or I didn’t use the right study habit for that class. I usually try to go over what I did wrong and sometime discuss with the teacher what I can do differently on the next exam or what they suggest I do for studying for the next exam.

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                                      Student Success Statement 
 “There is not instinct like that of the heart.”

Byron

Reflection: This means that only your heart can tell you what the best thing to do and say.

Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 1

Sarah’s Academic Success Story

Part 1

 My test study method: I have different strategies for different types of test or subjects. For me, any of math is exceptionally difficult so I had to spend extra time on that. I would go back through the homework problems focusing on the problems that I had extra difficulty on. Many times I would ask the teacher for an additionally study materials they could provide. If it was a class that required memorization or applying concepts I would create a sort of study guide for myself many times focusing on what were the key focal points in the class. If I knew there were going to be essays I would try to take terms and apply them to an example or create different questions on the concepts focused on throughout the semester

My time management secret: I always, always, always carry a planner with me. I even use different color highlighters to show that each event on my calendar is for. For example, pink is personal, yellow is school, orange is work, blue is for appointments, and green is for my sorority. Although I use whiteout frequently, I can see the bright yellow that if I have that project for finance due on Tuesday, I need to start working on it on [the previous] Wednesday so I can just get it done. My friends have always been amazed at how early I get things accomplished but that is really all I do.

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Sarah’s Academic Success Story Part 1

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 (even if when it isn’t required) 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 notes after class. This helped me remember what I just went over in class then when I had a test 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.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

Reflection: This statement means that there’s         no path that you are suppose too follow you have to go the way your heart wants you to go.

Work Together Part 3

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 needed it. It’s not 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. 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!

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Work Together Part 1

Work Together

Part 1

English, math, foreign language tips: for math, all I can say is to do the problems assigned. It is the only way to practice and that’s really all it is for math. It’s the same for chemistry; if you do the practice problems you will understand the material so much better because those subjects are not just memorization like history, you need to be able to apply what you have learned in practice situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say leave your self plenty of time to write essays and papers. They take time get all the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave them until the last second

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Work Together Part 1

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 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 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 under 12 pages but it was full on information it in and when I got it back a week or so later, I had received a 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.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”

Gordon B. Hinckley

Reflection: This means that  if you try hard in anything you want if you try and try until you get it a little better so the harder you try the better you get.

You Can Succeed Everyday Part 2

You Can Succeed Everyday

Part 2

My strategies for written assignments: I try to outline before I write because otherwise I forget what I am supposed to be talking about. I try not leave them until the last minute because then I will goof up the work. A lot of times I just write what I feel. Teachers like your opinion and if you can find something from the reading or research that relates specifically to your life, they like it even more because it allows you to take owner ship of your work. I write things that I want others to read; not things that I have to write because the teacher said so. How  I succeed in team projects: personally, especially ones that I worked.

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TigerWoods Ignours His Neady

 

 

 

 

TigerWoods Ignours His Neady

 Brother

 

 

Reflectio: i think that foo mest up why does't he just help out that foo and give him some money that nigga has alot of money  

You Can Succeed Every Day

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 not do as 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 next time a test is coming I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the question.

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effective study methods part3

            Effective Study Methods

                           Part 3

How I deal with multiple projects/test: When I have more than one test or project, I break up my studying. I will study for one test 30 minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of a project that I know will not take me very long, I will do it when I don’t have much time. If I am really in a church for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in the afternoon or at the night. By breaking up the studying into different sections, I feel like I get much more done. Cram sessions do not work for me. I need to study something for a shorter period of time more often for it to sink in.

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