Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Success is dependent on effort."
---Sophacles, Greek Dramatist

Whenever we put effort into something we expect to succeed. If you don't try one can never really know their true potential. Effort is having the drive and the motivation to never give up. Effort is shown through the work we produce.

How to Take up College Studying

 

How to Take up College Studying

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Choose Where to Study

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are best able to concentrate and type of work you are planning to do.

·         The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk space—usually a 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 the workload and seek help when you need it.

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Extreme "Sportsmanship" Award

Jenna Huff
High School Student wins the Extreme "Sportsmanship" Award from the U.S. Olympic Committee

Jenna Huff was just Sophmore in High School when she won this award. Being a talented athlete and participating in 5 sports she was in season for cross-country. During this 3 mile race Debb and Jenna were competing to proceed into the state finals. Jenna trying to trail Debb was on her last sprint. Deb coincidentally popped out her hip plate. Jenna catching up to the injured Deb decided to assist her to finish the race Jenna explains "It was the right thing to do." Jenna helped the injured and leading player Deb across the finish line giving Deb's team the lead to state.

this type of sportsmanship is umcommon on the West Coast, but on the East Coast there are more acts of kindness. And this sportsmanship is amazing, because even if it was against the rules Jenna felt as though she was doing the right thing to help Deb across, even at the cost of her team and placing in the race. By a sacrifice of giving someone the gate to the final, she recieved something more in turn by being awarded the Extreme "Sportsmanship" Award from a far greater organization.

How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

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

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 Develop Good Study Habits

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 a college as a full-time job, in which you spend 40 hours a week on a 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 weekends.

·         Consider what time of day you are the most alert. – There are morning people and night owls – and try to schedule yourself accordingly.

·         Think about whether you do better sitting studying for a few hours at a time or sitting down for marathon sessions.

 

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Studebt Success Statement

Student Success Statement
 "Choosing the right is always the right thing to do."
 Alex Linares

In a bit of redundancy, we need to choose the right. The right way allows us to be in the right with everyone else.And to reiterate that, the right thing to do is the most honest thing to do. Hwen you are not honest with yourself or those around you you are in the wrong.

10 Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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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 to 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

If phone calls or text messages are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you are only available at certain times of the 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 time an entire evening worrying about something 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 a realistic goal that is attainable.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"It is better to be alone than to be in bad company."
 ---ANON

There are certain times when you must prioritize your life. It is better to suffer with knowing you are choosing the right than to be influenced by foreign ideas. to be alone, you are seperated from the group, excluded, solitary. But if tyhat means you will obstain and distance yourself from the wrong and bad company,  ask yourself are you strong enough to hold back?

 

Instead of being influenced into this...

 

 

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10 Time Management Tips for Students

10 Time Management Tips for Students

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Organize your life

Managing your time well is an important element of success--- especially if you’re a student. If you set priorities that fit your needs and lifestyle, you’ll have a better chance of achieving your goals. Here are some goals. Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.

Tip 1: Make a to-do list Every Day

Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. And don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.

Tip 2: Use Spare Minutes Wisely

When you are commuting on the bus or train, use the time to get some reading done.

Tip 3: It’s Okay To Say No

 If your friend asks you to go to a movie on a Thursday night and you have an exam the next morning, realize that its ok to say no. Keep you short- and long- term priorities in mind.

Tip 4: Find the Right Time

You’ll work more efficiently if you figure out when you do your best work. For example, if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don’t wait until late at night.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"Improvement begins with I."
--Anon

This quote simply means that you have to become the change you want to see. To get to the finish line you have to know where to start; and the start is yourself. You have to make the decision to change and better yourself. Only you can improve yourself, no one else can do it for you.



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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

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 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 trod.

                4) 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, meditating, and reflecting are excellent soul-sharpening activities. Try writing your thoughts, feelings, aspirations, concerns, and decisions.

Get into the habit of daily improving your body (physical fitness) your mind, your heart, and your soul.

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Loyalty

During an everyday softball game an averagew girl whose dream it was to hit beyond the fence accomplished her goal. When it was Sarah's turn to bat, as her body swayed he knee kept idle. She tore her ACL (a ligament in her knee) and was unable to preceed to the next base. Her goal was incomlpete, because she could not finish her homerun on all the bases. Turning back to 1st base the loyalty of Mallory and Liz from the opposing team asked the umpire if they could assist her to complete the bases. Although it was against the rules the Umpires allowed it. Sarah in tears with a roaring crowd fulfilled her dream.

This act of loyalty is not one that you can see everyday. People are too competitive have compassion for the other team. Greatness can be found in every person.

 

 

 

 

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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 to renew themselves. 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 soul.

                1) Body. Eat wholesome foods, fruits, vegetables, legumes. Avoid illegal drugs, smoking, alcohol, tobacco products, tattooing. Exercise regularly and effectively. Get plenty of rest at night and get up early in the morning. “Early to bed early rise makes a man healthy 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”

 

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

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

 --Helen Keller

Alone we are limited to our capabilities. As we can adapt and work with others we expand our learning and other capabilities. We can learn a new skill or even make a new friend. Similarly to when peers collaborate on a project, you can divide the work so the productivity is faster. When a project is done in isolation there is a narrow view and less will be accomplished.


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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 an example of synergy. It’s not just the drums, 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 the other, just different.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"So often, in our quest to be more popular and to be part of the "in-group," we lose sight of things that are far moe important."
-Sean Covey


     During adolescence, youths are in a time of self identification. Some find identity sooner than others and are srtong willed. Those still lost in the world need a sense of foundation and follow the strongest leader. In society the most popular person has the most influence. They have the most friends, are smart, knowledgeable and part-take in most social conventions. A lost person will cling to them or see this popular person as an example to model themselves. They will try to become popular, buy the same clothing, get a new style, talk differently, but an image is perishable.
     Infatuation with one's image is perishable, now why would you want to invest in something that will not last? You could make better use of the time given to be productive, and creatce things that will last a life time. An image fades, but knowledge and wisdom last forever.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

 Habit 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 one’s 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—a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-you-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 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. Learn to listen and listen to learn. Listen, really listen, for understanding. Seek first to understand then to be understood---LISTEN

 

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Valentine's Day

VALENTINE’S DAY

Valentine’s Day is a day that is named after St. Valentine.

He was a person who was selected by the people to conduct weddings although it was forbidden by the law. He was imprisoned by the Roman Catholic Church and was said to have written a letter to his valentine. The forbidden love is what’s assumed when though of Valentine. (I’m not sure what this has to do with Valentine’s Day)

 

But today in our modern society Valentine’s Day is a commercial Holiday. People show affection towards one another on this day. Couples choose to buy heart balloons and buy affection with one another. It is amazing how so many people follow this holiday. It has become a social custom to purchase or gift an item to someone. Some people choose chocolates, candy, take one another out to dinner, or confess their love.

This “holiday” is the cause of having so much love in the air. I think that it is just a commercialized way for companies to make business. Last minute gifts, late night runs, feeling the pressure of having to impress someone with “The Gift.” There should not be any type of pressure to give anyone anything. Social conformity or not you should always have appreciation for that “Special Someone” daily.

I do not think that people should wait or one day out of the year to do something special. I believe that if you want something to be super memorable, it has to be on the least expected days. Be unique and try to do something off beat. Don’t love just for one day and be done, this is a continuous thing especially if you have a partner. Go out to dinner and occasionally tell that significant other how you feel about them. Don’t wait for Valentine’s Day, take time out of your own day to do something spectacular.

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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 though 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 the 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 is the good feelings that is brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win r one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose- Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feelings.

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.

 

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement
"You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible."
Ezra T. Benson

The quote is a reitteration of past quotes. When you do an action that is unjust, cruel, rude, or impolite there is a guilt factor that will follow along. This is you conscience telling you that "Hey, I shouldnt have done that." No matter what you can't make that bad action into something positive with out the honest truth."It is impossible."
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 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 on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first also means learning to overcome their fears and being strong during difficult times. It’s is living life to what matters most. Putting first things first deals with things that are:

Important or not important, urgent or not urgent. Let’s look at the four quadrants of time management.

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 Urgent	4. Not important and Not Urgent

 

Quadrant 2 is the ideal place to spend your time, doing things that are important but not urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. The result of Quadrant 2 are:

 

1. Control your life

2. Balance

3.High Performance

 

So, in what quadrant are you spending most of your time? The key is to shift as much time as possible into Quadrant 2 and this is accomplished by planning. Spend more time planning and incorporating the most things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize and reach for it.

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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 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 prededeth all others is – ‘ I will form good habits and become their slaves. ”

Og Mandino

 

This statement is partially true to some degree. There are good habits that must take place to become successful. Do well in your studies, have a good reputation, have innovation. But that is not always the case. There are certain things in life that are given away to privileged, that they do not necessarily have to work for. And most of the time those that work extremely laborious days are left behind.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

 If teens aren’t clear about where they want to end up in life, about their goals, about their values, 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 his 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. 

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Student Success Statament

Student Success Statement
"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force."\

Elaine Maxwell

This statement alludes to the fact that you are in control of what affects you. When you do wrong you have no one to blame but yourself. When you do right, only you have the force to create those actions. Nobody can be blames for your actions but yourself, this is the self responsibility that we have through out life. the acceptance of blame for good and bad.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

(By Sean Covey but modified)

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 unhappiness. 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, decisions, goals, action, 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, their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. Obey the coach. Obey the school. Obey the rules. Obey the parents. Obey with exactness, and great things will come to you. Be proactive and take the initiative.

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Student Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Keep your eyes on the prize"

-ANON


To keep your eye on the prize in to never lose focus on what is at the end of the tunnel, past the finish line, or beyond the mountain. To keep your eye on the prize you are fighting for yourself and others. Never lose sight of the goals you want to accomplish in life.

Today I am not losing sight of my prize. Today I am playing for the history of the Marquez Varstiy Soccer, for my teammates, and finally for myself. It is crucial that we win and not lose sight of wining the title Central League Champions. Its WIN or WIN