How to Take on College 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 Have a routine for where and when you study.

·        Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each studying session.

·        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. 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!!!

Jenna Huff

High School student wins the… Extreme “ Sportsmanship award from U.S. Olympic Committee

The story of Jenna Huff is a very inspirational to many people. What Jenna did to Deb Guthman was very nice. I think that she a very nice job of doing what she did. Not only did she help her walk the rest of the race, she also let her win. For which she let her go first. Jenna didn’t care if she didn’t t win, she wanted to do what was right, and she also didn’t  care if she was to be disqualify from the race that she had been training for.

 

 

How to Take on College Studying

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

Part 1

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 you 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 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

“Choosing the right is always the right thing to do.”- Alex Linares  

Choosing the right will always bring you well out comes. Choosing the right will never give you a feeling of guilt. On the other hand when you choose the wrong, negative consequences will soon come to you. Then later feeling full regret of what you did. Always choose the right!

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 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 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

“It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.”-ANON

          It is better for people to be alone, that to be in a company filled with bad influences. This way they can stay out of trouble and not regret bad things they have done. People who hang out with bad influences usually do bad things and do not choose the right!

10 Time Management Tips for Students

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/college-success/116.html

Tips 1-4

Organizing Your Life

Managing your time well is an important element t 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 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.

Tips 2. Use spare Minutes Wisely.

When you’re 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 it’s okay to say no. keep your 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 to do it until late at night.

Choose the right!!!

 

Student Success Statement

“Improvement begins with I.”-ANON

People that want to improve, need to start with I. they should start improving with themselves and not wait till other people come and try to help them improve. It is up to them if they want to improve and how they will do it to improve. They should not let other people help them improve, since it won’t make any difference to them than you!

 

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 prick you and create regretful sensations within our heart when you do what you honestly feel you won’t have any regrets your heart is you internal compass it gives you direction an discernment just like a magnetic compass gives directions even true north your personal compass your, you 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, meditating, and reflection 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

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

          People you choose the right 100% of the times, will not fear anything. Since they always choose the right, they don’t have to worry about the consequences they will face.

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 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. Get to bed early at night and get up early each morning. “Each to bed early 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 intelligence questions. Observe. Develop your mind through positive ‘self-talk”.

Choose the Right!!!

 

Student success statement

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

          This statement is true because when we work as a group we have can make more out of it. Then when we work as an individual we only make a certain amount of work done. When we work together we have help from a lot of people and we can get things done faster, then when we work alone we only have each other and don’t get much done.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 6

Habit 6: Synergize

Synergize 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” but rather a better way, a higher way. Synergize allows teens to value differences and better appreciate others. Synergize 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 rather you’ll go. Synergize 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 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 strength to the table to create something better than each could alone. No instrument is more important than another, just different.

Choose the right!!!

 

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 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 foe 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 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 tow ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. Learn to listen and to listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.                                                                  Seek first to understand then to be understood- LISTEN.

Choose the Right!!!

 

 

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 more important.”-Sean Covey

Summary: This statement is very true and I agree with it, people now a day want to fit in with the popular. That they would do anything to be part of the “in group”. They spent too much time, that they forget about other stuff why more important. They lose track and forget to do stuff way more important.

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 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 it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are 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 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.

Choose the Right!!!

 

Student Success Statement

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible.”-Ezra Taft Benson

Summary: People who choose wrong and do something wrong do not feel good after they do that something bad, they have a feeling of regret. They sometimes wish they never did that something, and did the right thing to feel good of themselves.

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 teen prioritize and manage their time so that they focus on and complete the most important things in their lives. Putting first things first also means learning to overcome fears and being strong during difficult times. It’s living life according to what matters most. Putting first deals with things that are:

 

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

 

Quadrant 1: Things that are Important and Urgent

 

Quadrant 2: Things that is 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 our time, doing things that are important but your urgent. Here’s where priorities come into play. the results for living Quadrant 2 are:

1.   control of 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 important things first, things that matter most. Keep your eyes on the prize

 

 

Choose the Right!!!

 

Define EXCEL arithmetic Operators

+ Addition

- Subtraction

* Multiplication

/ Division

^ Power or Exponent

 

Student success Statement

“The only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeed 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 a good habits and become their slaves.’ “ –Og Mandino

Summary: People who have good habits will succeed in the future while those who fail will not succeed in the future.

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 his decision-making process.

“Keep your eyes on the prize.” Determine your desired prize and don’t quit until you have realized the achievements 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

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

If I succeed I want to succeed knowing that I tried my very best and did not cheat to get to where I am. If I don’t succeed I at least know that I tried my best and did not use anyone else to try to succeed.

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

Habit 1

(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 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, decisions, 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 assignments, their duties, their responsibilities, their obligations. Choosing to do what is right is a proactive decision. Obey the rules. Obey the law. Obey the couch. Obey the school policies. Obey your parents. obey with exactness, and great things will come to you. Be Proactive and take the initiative.

Choose the Right!!!

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; their office hours are how to contact them.

3.   Make sure the Faculty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussion. Consult with your teachers during office hours.

4.   Use 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 168 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 service and programs offered by the counseling Center, The Freshman Center, the Career 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 healthy 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 expences 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 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 (high school or) college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.