"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.

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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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