student success statement

Student Success Statement

"Take care of yourself and everything else will fall into place."

Coach David Diamount

This statement is true because when you make the right choices and take care of yourself well than you are able to take care of other problems easier.

Ten Tips for Being More Truthful

By Barbara A. Lewis

1. Make a commitment to tell the truth

2. Tell someone about your commitment

3. Think before you give s dishonest answer

4. Be careful of when and how you use exaggeration, sarcasm, or irony

5. Be careful not to twist the truth or leave out part of it

6. Don’t indulge in little white lies or cover-ups

7. Watch out for silent lies

8. When you catch yourself lying, throw your mouth into reverse

9. Talk to yourself (Ask yourself, “How do I really feel about this? What’s the best thing to do? How can I keep my commitment to myself?”)

10. Treat yourself when you tell the truth even when it’s hard to do.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 13

If you feel you do not naturally have all those characteristics, then do not despair. Each of them can be accomplished by your own application. You can use meditation and visualization techniques to imitate your vision, and they can certainly be learned both for that purpose and for Each Step you take to reach your goals. Simply visualize your desired goals, that of being a star student, a champion of doing what is right, and you see yourself working hard to become outstanding, and you’re your dreams and vision will materialize as you pursue these objectives. Setting goals and objectives can be a personal or business technique that can be learnt. You can develop inner strength to succeed if you apply yourself to doing just that; that will enable you to recover from setbacks more easily.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 11

Whether studying or in general life, planning is an imperative skill. Here, we must strictly set the hours for studying, and should promote regularity in doing so. Don’t put off your studies to the last moment (just before the test), because in that moment you will be feeling stress and pressure, and both factors will prove disturbing for your learning; that’s the high price of procrastination. During the exam, it’s important to forget about panic and stress. And if you are planning for your thesis, you may find this post useful. Other planning tip I frequently give is that, when you are assigned homework. Try to solve it as quickly as possible, several days before the required date, but don’t try to complete it perfectly and don’t submit it immediately. I always recommended doing homework early, but deliver it at the last possible day.

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Acquiring the Habits of Highly Successful Students

Part 10

·       They prefer tasks with some degree of difficulty and novelty, which stimulate their learning skills.

·       They don’t apply the simple criteria of success-fail to their learning. Remember, they are focused into learning process.

·       They know how to handle groups.

·       Finally, they work with passion.

Other chief habit is that of asking questions. We have to establish hypothesis and set concrete, realistic goals. After reading any text we have to ask several different questions related to its content, in order to verify if we have completely understood the text. It’s also important to try to related such text and others areas of our knowledge. Again, linking ideas and concept is a habit of highly successful students. So, link.

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