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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