"What's right isn't always popular, what's popular isn't always right."
Howard Cosell
I think there is no statement more true than this one. I could not have put it better myself. There are many examples in today's society that can prove this statement. One such example is the fact that everyone now in days think they have the right to use drugs. Not just adults, teenagers all around, too. Using drugs has become popular, but it is by no means right.

Successful students
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If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will be to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, you will become bored. Act like you’re disinterested and you’ll be disinterests. So the next time you trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, notes, and ask question. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic. 8. . . . Talk about what you’re learning. Successful students get to know something well enough that they can put it into words. Talking about something, with friends or classmates, is not only good for checking whether or not you know something it’s a proven learning tool. Transferring ideas into words provides the most direct path for moving knowledge from the short-term to long term memory. You really don’t “know” material until you can put it into words. So, next time you study, don’t do it silently. Talk about notes, problems, readings, etc., with friends, recite to chair, organize an oral study group, pretend you’re teaching your peers. “Talk-learning” produces a whole host of memory traces that result in more learning. CHOOSE THE RIGHT!

Successful Students 5-6 5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning. Students want the best seat available for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their professor’s teammate (see no.4). 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 they chose the back of the classroom because they seek invisibility or anonymity, both of which are antithetical to efficient and effective learning. If you are trying not to be part of the class, why, then, are you wasting your time? Push your hot buttons, is there something else you should be doing with 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 the questions now that are necessary to make your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps your learn more. The more you learn them, the less you’ll have to learn later and the less time it will take because you won’t have to include some deciphering, time, also. The whole purpose of taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.
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"The time is always right to do what is right."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I like everything about this quote. The quote itself is not only catchy but astounding and inspirational. The fact that it came from Dr. MLK, one of the Greats in history, is icing on the cake.

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3. . . . Ask questions. Successful students ask questions to provide the quickest route between ignorance and knowledge. In addition to securing knowledge you seek, asking questions has at least two other extremely important benefits. The process helps you pay attention to your professor and helps your professor pay attention to you! Think about it. If you want something, go after it. Get the answer now, or fail a question later. There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. It’s your choice. 4. . . . Learn that a student and a professor make a team. Most instructors want exactly what you want: they would like for you to learn the material in their respective classes and earn a good grade.

Successful students reflect well on the efforts of any teacher; if you have learned your material, the instructor takes some justifiable pride in teaching. Join forces with your instructor, they are not an enemy, and you share the same interests, the same goals-in short, and your teammates. Get to know your professor. Neither wishes to chalk up a losing season. Be a team player!

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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.”
Reflection: It means that when you do something good you’ll get rewarded, but if you do something back it’ll catch up to you.Everything that goes around comes around; you do good, and good will be done to you. You do bad, and bad will be done to you.

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Successful students exhibit a combination of successful attitudes and behaviors as well as intellectual capacity. Successful students…… 1… are responsible and active. Successful students get involved in their studies, accept responsibilities for their own education, and are active participants in it! Responsibility means control. It’s the difference between leading and being led. Your own efforts control your grade, you earn the glory or deserve the blame, and you make the choice. Active classroom participation improves grades without increasing study time. You can sit there, act bored, daydream, or sleep. Or, you can actively listen, think, question, experience. Either option costs one class period. However, the former method will require a large degree of additional work outside of class to achieve the same degree of learning the latter provides at one sitting. The choice is yours.

2. … have educational goals. Successful students have legitimates goals and are motivated by what they represent in terms of career aspirations and life’s desires.

Ask yourself these questions: What am I doing here? Why have I chosen to be sitting here now? Is there some better place I could be? What does my presence here mean to me? Answers to these questions represent your  “Hot Buttons” and are, without a doubt. The most important factors in your success as a college student

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Study for Multiple Exams

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English, math, foreign language tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign class if you are just showing and doing 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 to Germany or Spanish? These are the little things that will help you.

Here are my final words of wisdom for students who want to get better grades in college: Time management and organization are critical key factors to success in college, and never be afraid to go ask your teacher for help. They have office hours for a reason-use them!

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What happened in this video was trainers were caught abusing their horses. They cut their horses and beat them badly to get them to do a trick. Its stupid to treat horses like that just for a medal. Horses are living creatures that experience pain just like humans do. I think it is a good thing that the guy who was doing that is getting charged, he deserves it.

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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 organized 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. That is the easiest way for me to catch my own mistakes. I have to give my eyes a break from it, and if I just write it I think it looks perfect. But if I look at it a day later I 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 to 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 at the same time I spread out my time beforehand. For example, if I have a test on Monday, and 2 part on Friday. Start studying for my next test on the second half of Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review my Monday test because I already studied for it. When that test is over I can begin reviewing for the other tests.

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 received 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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"There is no set path, just follow your heart."
-Anon
Reflection:
I think this is a touching quote. It is very true, you are the engineer of your own future. No one can tell you how to live your life, and for that reason, you must Choose the Right!

WORK TOGETHER

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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 a bad thing to nut understand, it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it. Plan you time out as 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 and is willing to help you. If you try hard, it will come to you. I find myself thinking about 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 2

Work Together
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English, math, foreign language tips: For math, all I can say is 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 practical situations. As for English, I am no longer taking it, but I would say to leave yourself the information out of your head and onto the page, so don’t leave then until the least second.
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WORK TOGETHER
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I can and will work as part of the team as long as everyone in the team is willing to do this 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. It was the longest paper I had to ever been assigned and I was 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.
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Student Succes Statment
"Try a little harder to be a little better"
-Gordon B. Hinckley
This is a very catchy yet inspirational quote. I agree with it. In order to improve, you must put out more effort.

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 to leave them until the last minute because then I will just 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 ownership 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 project: personally, I do not like working on group projects, especially ones that I worked on high school. However, when it is required to work in a group, usually I try to lead. I like taking the lead because then I know that my grade will be a good one. I do well in school, I always have more time to waste on things other than the project, and I try to be in charge. That way I know that things are going to get done on time and that I am going to get a good grade. If I am working in a group of people who all want to work, then it is a different story.
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I think this was an interesting story. I think tiger woods neglecting his brother shows that he let his fame go to his head. This is terrible because we as humans should know that our family and loved ones come before anything else in life. It is incredibly selfish of Tiger to ignore his brother in such a  manor.

You can succeed every day part 1

You can Succeed Every Day

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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 try not to do it. I will have longer sessions on nights before big tests, but I never stay up much later than normal before tests. I know that if I take the test the next day I will not do as well as if I was rested.

How I’ve overcome and 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 of me they are not worth getting really upset about. I do well because I know that I know the material. However, if I get a bad grade, or one lower than I expected, I make sure that the next time a test is coming up, I study even more so that I won’t be surprised by the questions.

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Effective Study method

Effective Study Method

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 for minutes or so and then switch to the other one. If there is some part of the 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 crunch for time on a specific day, I will study for one test in the morning and the other in 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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Time management part 2

Time management Part 2

My secret is to use time wisely. I know that on certain days I do not have time to run errands or hang out with friends even. Each minute of each day is used for something. One thing that works really well for me is to write everything down. I mean everything. I write down if I am going to email people, write letters, or study. It works for me to have a planner that goes by the day and shows me what I am going to be doing every day. Knowing what I have to do every day helps me plan out my week and my days. If I know that I don’t have time on Tuesday, I will try to get more things done on Monday or Sunday. I plan ahead, especially if I am going to be on the road for volleyball. When I am on the road, I bring my books and read on the bus/plane/hotel room. Missing class is killer to make up from, but if you are upfront with your professors, they are usually nice about having to turn things in late or not being in classes.

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What i did on the 3 weeks of vacation was have fun and relax. Most of the time, i was just in my room playing video games or watching T.V. One day, i went to Azusa to sled in the snow. There was no snow. Well, there was snow, but it was all thin and there was no where to sled. Another day, i went to a mall. I got a sweater, a cable, and a used video game. On new years eve, i hung out with my friend at taco bell. A few days before that, i went with another friend and we ent to Huntington park, vernon, south central, and downtown L.A. We ate pizza throughout the whole thing.

Effective Study Methods Part 1

Effective Study Methods Part 1

My test study method: When it comes time to study for the test, I usually start 2-3 days before the test. I go through my notes and make flash cards on what was important for those sections, paying special attention to what the teacher said would be on the test if there was a review session.  Also, I go through my book and read the inset stories and add to my flashcards. If there are practice problems or online assignments or old test, I use those to help me study for the test as well. Once the test is over, I keep the flashcards so that I have them for the next test or the final. Flashcards are a marvelous learning tool. The key to remembering something is to repeat it numerous time-spaced rehearsals. If you forget something, it is because you haven’t repeated it enough times for an extended period of time. Repetition is a law of learning; therefore, to learn and remember, to recall, it is mandatory that you repeat over and over the things you desire to learn and remember. You may be thinking, “Oh, no, repeat something.” You need to get used to it. For example the more you practice a song on the piano, the better you become at playing that song. Learning and remembering is like playing the piano- the more practice saying or doing it the better you can remember it. Look now at what you remember.  You remember it because you have repeated it numerous times since first being exposed to it. So, practice rehearsing those things you desire to remember, and they will stick with you.

Practiceà proficiencyà pleasure

The better you remember, the more pleasure you obtain from studying and learning.

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