Student Success Statement: Ernest Hemingway

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.”

Ernest Hemingway

Pay attention to what’s right and what’s wrong.

Reflection: Ernest probably meant that when you know what’s right you know it’s moral and humane because you didn’t feel bad. When he said that he probably meant to say it as in when you know something is right and you know where you’re going in life and how to view things then you will realize you are doing what’s right and not what’s wrong. It doesn’t only portray as bad but good, many things to us human’s looks wrong or right but that’s all based on how you are raised and with bad morals, bad actions occur and how one person may view a good deed as a bad one and vice versa. People need to understand that when you do something right it has to be right but to us humans what is right?

Successful Students: 1-2

Successful Students

1-2

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 responsibility 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, 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, and take notes like someone in charge of their learning 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 educated goals. Successful students have legitimate 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. If your educational goals are truly yours, not someone else’s, they will motivate a vital and positive academic attitude, If you are familiar with what these hot buttons represent and refer to them often, especially when you are tire of being a student, nothing can stop you; if you aren’t and don’t, everything can and will!

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement:Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Student Success Statement

“My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Reflection: Alfred means that he has no need for strength because his heart is pure. It means he has common decency and CTR’s because he’s gone far. He has not only become a good person but he has also tried to gain achievement in what he’s done and how he sees the world. He sees it as long as he knows what’s right he knows he can succeed and prosper as a human and very happy.

Study for Multiple Exams Part 3

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 3

English, math, foreign tips: Practice—especially foreign language. It is hard to succeed in a foreign language class if you are just showing and doing the work. But if you are in your room and look at objects and try to do say them in the language you are learning it actually helps. Or if you send a simple text to a friend think about it, you can translate that to German or Spanish? These are the little things that will help.

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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Cruelty or Glory? The Tennessee Walking Horse Nightmare

Jackie McConnell, the trainer who, along with his employees, was caught on tape, had no comment for ABC News, and showed no remorse. McConnell was the trainer for owners who wanted their Tennessee Walking Horses to conquer the competition, he would beat the horses so they would go higher, to conquer even more. These trainers wouldn’t even acknowledge the fact they had done wrong leaving no comment or anything. The investigation done soon after showed all the foreign substances on the horses legs to show where they were beat and chemicals added to wounds to add stamina and power to the animals. In conclusion the animals were cruelly punished due to the incompetence of the owners and trainers letting the poor animals suffer and the winners getting both money and recognition for their wrong doing.

Study for Multiple Exams: Part 2

Study for Multiple Exams

Part 2

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 organize 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 wrote 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 give you or in 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 Monday, and 2 tests Tuesday then I will study for my Monday test Thursday and part of Friday. Start Studying for my next test on the second half of Friday and part of Saturday, then my second Tuesday test on Saturday as well and part of Sunday. Then Sunday night I can review for 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 bust 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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My Food Journal

My Food Journal :

Morning (Time:_____________)

Food: Toast

Portion: 4 slices

Calories: 500 calories

My Food Journal :

Snack (Time:_____________)

Food: NONE 
Portion: 0

Calories: 0

My Food Journal :

Snack (Time:_____________)

Food: chips

Portion: whole bag

Calories: 150 calories

My Food Journal :

DInner (Time:_____________)

Food: Pizza

Portion: 5 slices

Calories:

Ø Did you eat something today only because of a habit? False

Ø Did you skip any meals today? yes

Ø Did you eat too little in the morning? yes

Ø Did you eat more at night than any other time? Yes

Ø Did you eat a lot of high-fat foods, such as whole dairy, fried foods, and desserts? false

Ø Did you eat the same foods as you do every other day? yes

Ø Did you eat according to mood rather than hunger today? no