"Its is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and (to make) unpopular that which is unsound (and not good)"

Joseph Smith

It is saying that we should make dangerous things like drinking alcohol and smoking unpopular. We should also make stuff like studying popular. We should make CTR popular and not CTW. 

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9. Don’t cram for exams. Successful students know that divided periods of study are more effective than cram sessions, and they practice it.

If there is one thing that study skills specialists agree on, it is that distributed study is better than massed, late-night, last-ditch efforts know as cramming. You’ll learn more, remember more, and earn a higher grade by studying in four, one hour-a-night sessions for Friday’s exams than studying for four hours straight on Thursday night. Short, concentrated preparatory efforts are more efficient and rewarding than wasteful, inattentive, last moment marathons. Yet, students fail to learn this lesson and end up repeating it over and over again until it becomes a wasteful habit. Not too clever, huh?

When you cram, you are taking the shortcut, and shortcuts never produce any real worthwhile results. Also, when you take shortcuts, you feel rather rotten knowing that you could have done better but didn't Shortcuts cut you short. You can’t plant watermelon seeds and harvest fresh watermelons the next day. It takes time. Cramming for a test or project and expecting to make a high score the next day is like planting watermelon seeds and expecting to harvest and eat fresh watermelon the next day. Plus cramming for a test or project doesn’t help you academically, so why even do it. Plan ahead, prepare ahead. Give yourself plenty of days and weeks to prepare for upcoming accountability opportunities.

Choose the right!!!

Student Success Statement

"What's right isn't always popular. Whats's popular isn't always right."

Howard Cosell

There are many thing that are popular but they are not right. That doesn't mean that we should do it because its still wrong.  We should always choose the right no matter what. For example we should not do drugs even if it is popular.

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7. Understand that actions affect learning. Successful students know their personal behavior affect their feelings and emotions which in turn can affect learning.

If you act in a certain way that normally produces particular feelings, you will begin to experience those feelings. Act like you’re bored, and you’ll become bored. Act like you’re disinterested, and you’ll become disinterested. So the next time you have trouble concentrating in the classroom, “act” like an interested person: lean forward, place your feet flat on the floor, maintain eye contact with the professor, Nod occasionally, take notes, and ask questions. Not only will you benefit directly from your actions, your classmates and professor may also get more excited and enthusiastic.

8. … talk about what they’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 moving knowledge from 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 a 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!!!!!

High School Graduation

Pleasure or Pain

I think it should be pleasure if you choose the right. If you choose the right you can graduate with all the credits or even with honors. If you choose the wrong you will not graduate and will feel the pain of others graduating but you. You can not go back in time to fix the problems.

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5. Don’t sit in the back of the room. Successful students minimize classroom distractions that interfere with learning. Students want the best seat ever for their entertainment dollars, but willingly seek the worst seat for their education dollars.  Students who sit in the back cannot possibly be 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 meaningful at some later time. A short review of your notes while the material is still fresh on your mind helps you to learn more. The more you learn then, 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 if taking notes is to use them, and use them often. The more you use them, the more they improve.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT!!!

Student Success Statement

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is never a wrong time to do whats right because choosing the right is something you do all the time and not when ever you feel is right. There is never any time for doing what is wrong