...Now, as a college student, I have learned so much more from what I knew in my younger years. One thing that I learned and what I wish to pass on is my belief of what success is. Going through college, I have failed many times. My path on the pre-pharmacy program has not been a smooth one, to the point that I had to extend beyond a 3 year undergrad to a 3 and a half year undergrad. Starting college I did not have the best study habits nor focus to do well in my classes. This led me to have a mediocre GPA, but I was barely going to make the cut. Unfortunately, I overslept for a biology practical in the summer session, causing me to fail the lab which results in failing the class. This was devastating to my GPA as well as to my morale....
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...Brandy Tyree Sharla Yates English 098 June 7th, 2012 Succeeding in College College can be a very difficult time in a persons life. Especially, for those like myself that have been out of school for many years or even for those who had hard times in high school. It is my first quarter in college and I have found that college does not have to be challenging. If one such as myself, just takes the initiative to learn the ways to make it not such a trying time we can become very successful. There are many different study skills that can help us succeed in college. Note taking is one of the skills that I have found very helpfully in my first quarter in college. Taking notes can be used for many different reasons and help in many different ways. Notes can be used for teachings in class that have no related textbook. Writing down things like questions the teacher asks as well as the answers to those questions, these can reveal the teachers goals and objectives of the subject (“Study Tip #09”) . Even if there is a textbook to the teachings, notes can save time in having to go back through a chapter of the book to find the information needed. Writing down everything from titles to organize the notes to new words or concepts, even diagrams and forms can all be very useful. These notes are very helpful to look back at to study for upcoming exams. If one does not take notes all they have is memory to rely on, the odds aren't very good. “Most people can keep information in their...
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...Personal responsibility and college success are one in the same. According to Merriam and Webster, responsibility is the quality or state of being morally, legally or mentally accountable. To be a successful college student, one must be responsible and held accountable for one’s thoughts, words and actions. Self-advocacy is an individual’s ability to convey effective skills of communication relating to one’s own interests. This entails making sound decisions, taking responsibility for those decisions and knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Self-advocacy is an individual’s ability to convey effective skills of communication relating to one’s own interests. The communicator needs to be an effective listener as well. Not just do all of the talking. Allow whomever is talking to present their views and decide what you would like to take from what they are saying and make it pertain to you. Self-advocacy is also speaking up for yourself and learning how to assert yourself effectively. It’s making decisions that pertain to you and your life. It’s also finding out who will support you on your journey to success in college and future endeavors. Another important factor in being successful in college as well as in any endeavor and being responsible is knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Utilize your strengths to your advantage. Be direct yet tactful when relaying your strengths. It is always important to respect others. For example, if you are a leader, speak with conviction...
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...College Success Helpful Tips For College and Life “Becoming a Time Manager and a Goal Setter” is a chapter that teaches skills that can used in every part of life. The purpose of this chapter is to teach you how to manage your time and establish goals in each area of your life. Some types of goals are an immediate goal, which is achievable in a few hours. A short-term goal is achievable within the range of a week to a term. An intermediary goal is achievable a year or more. A long-term goal is achievable in a matter of years (Wong 108). A helpful tool in establishing your goals is STSR. It is: • Set Specific, clear and realistic goals. • Set a specific Target date and time to complete each goal. • Identify the individual Steps involved in reaching the goal. • Plan a Reward for yourself when you reach the goal (Wong 110). Linda Wong warns that trying to achieve too many goals at one time can be overwhelming. Use her ABC Method to prioritize your goals. You need to: • List all the goals you want to achieve. • Assign a priority letter A, B, C to your goals. • Then achieve goal one at a time based on your priority rating (Wong 115). Then once you establish your educational, work and leisure time goals you are directed to learn how to create a weekly time schedule. It is important to be realistic when creating your schedule such as having a rotating work schedule. You might have to adjust the schedule...
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...Patterns for College Writing Chapter 8: Exemplification What is Exemplification? What is its basic purpose or value? pages 203-217 Name_______________________________ Using Exemplification Is exemplification used only as a basic essay pattern? In what kind of writing situation is exemplification used? According to the text, what are four purposes for which a writer might use exemplification when writing an essay? Planning an Exemplification Essay How many examples are required for there to be “enough” examples when using exemplification in an essay? What do the two examples given by the text illustrate about the number of examples needed? What is as important as choosing an appropriate number of examples? What do effective writers use to help readers see the connection between an example and the general statement it is illustrating? Structuring an Exemplification Essay What is the basic structure of the exemplification essay? Where is the writer’s thesis usually presented? What problem can result from a poorly organized exemplification essay? How can this problem be avoided? What order or arrangement strategies can be used effectively? Student Writers Read Kristy Bredin’s letter of application and the commentary that follows the student model. What arrangement strategy does Kristy use to support her thesis that she is qualified for the position? Read Grace Ku’s essay “Midnight” and the commentary that follows the student model. How does Grace introduce her topic? Do you...
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...English Comp.I 1100-01 4/10/2012 The most important concepts I’ve learned in this semester was to not give up and keep going. I love all my classmates and instructors because they have taught me not to stress about college and work. My instructors help me each and every day to keep trying on my homework and when I ask for help, they are right there supporting me. I know that my grades and attendance is not all that great but my instructors give me chances to catch up on all my homework and give me second chances. I think by just handing in all your homework that attendance shouldn’t even matter because there all kinds of students that work and go to college at the same time and I am one of them. I am learning how to balance a full-time job and also being a full-time student, it gets very overwhelming but my instructors encourage me not to give up because they all have been there before and know what it feels like. This semester has been overwhelming for me but I am teaching myself to keep striving for more and not give up. I am so thankful for having such incredible instructors and classmates to keep pushing me to become that much better at what I am doing in college. Little Priest is probably the best college for me right now because it is the most easy college there is for me right now especially juggling a job on the side. The most important concepts I have learned through Little Priest is not to give up and keep striving for...
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...Stephanie Johnson February 9, 2016 Principles of Public Speaking Assignment 6 What I see as the biggest challenges young adults face today: A. General Purpose – To let my audience know what issues young adults face in the world today. B. Specific Purpose – To make sure that young adults know that the issues that I will portray to them can be overcome by doing the right thing. C. Central Idea – To let young adults know by doing the right thing and following the rules can lead to better success in life. I. Introduction A. Being pressured to graduate high school and become successful B. The negative impact of social media C. Alcohol and drugs II. Body of the Presentation A. Being pressured to graduate high school and become successful 1. School is tough and being pressured is even tougher. High school students should know that having good grades and being academically successful is not an option. 2. But being pressured can put a lot of weight on a student’s shoulders that makes them unable to focus because they are trying to be so able to please. B. The negative impact of social media 1. Cyberbullying and negative comments from peers can turn a teen into depression state. 2. Social media was first introduced as a positive source for adults to reconnect with longtime friends. Now it has teenagers committing suicide, getting depressed, and having limited motivation to do anything because of the bullying received...
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...Achieving success is primarily an individual’s ability to value their experiences in life. Whether it is success in education or competing in a particular sport or event, success is primarily the conscience recognition of an accumulation of many small or significant moments of progress and therefore can be considered a success. For example, at birth we are automatically exposed to an immediate unconscious attraction to a cycle of success and since we have taken our first breath of air, a valuable sense gains control and helps support our attraction or need for oxygen. The exposure of countless meaningful occurrences of success can lead to a cycle of positive recollection and meaningful experiences. Similarly, a cycle of success occurs when...
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...Macy Koon Dr. Thompson COLS 1001 11 December 2015 What is Success in College What does it take to succeed in college? When I think of success I think of achieving something that I have desired, planned or attempted. A successful college experience for me would be developing important study skills such as how I can study, what I can do in and out of the classroom, and how I can manage my time. It is often claimed that the most successful college students attain success because they are only smart and study hard. Success in college for me goes beyond intelligence and hard work. It depends on my motivation and developing good study habits. My motivation is the reason I am at college. No one motivated me but myself. In the book What the Best College Students Do, Ken Bain talks about how making straight A’s is nice. I agree with him. He also says that straight A’s hardly guarantee a happy or productive life. In order to succeed it takes a personal sense of purpose. To have success we need to make good decisions and have self-confidence. In order to be a successful student I need to be a risk taker and make connections. Rather than chasing success, I have to achieve it. Bain details that there are three types of learners: surface, who do as little as possible to get by; strategic, who aim for top grades rather than true understanding; and deep learners, who leave college with a real, rich education. In high school I was a surface learner. I did not always apply myself like...
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...are so high above the curve in terms happiness and optimism, even in the face of challenges and misfortunes? Whatever it is, there are individuals in psychology who wish to study and understand the science of happiness. These individuals specialize in the relatively new field of psychology, positive psychology. Such researchers wish to gain insight on acquiring happiness and building a resiliency to negative emotions. With an increasing emphasis on measuring college success, primarily through academic outcomes, it becomes understandable that school professionals shouldn’t neglect student’s well being. Furthermore, a college student’s level of happiness should be monitored and remain a priority for the university/colleges...
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...tests, such as SAT and ACT, have always been regarded as the strongest predictors of students’ future college performance. However, of these years, its validity has become one of the hottest debate among American campuses. In fact, several individual institutions have carried out validity researches in order to find out the reliability of standard tests.But such researches show that the SAT has a weak predictive ability. One study* at the University of Pennsylvania looked at the power of SAT I, and SAT II in predicting cumulative college GPAs. Researchers found that the SAT I and SAT II were the weakest predictors, explaining only 4% and 6.8% of the variation in college grades respectively. Another study** of 10,000 students at 11 selective public and private institutions of higher education found that a 100-point increase in SAT combined scores, regardless of race, gender, and field of study constant, led to a one- tenth of a grade point gain for college GPA. Also, present findings in Wake Forest University show that black students who graduated from college had significantly lower SAT scores than white students. But they both graduated with the same college GPA. Thus, according to the above three researches, the SAT is hardly a viable predictor of college success. Although professor Robert J. Vanderbei from Princeton University thought that SAT is ‘a challenging...
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...College: Success at Last! Holly Harrison Western Governors University Congratulations! You have decided to pursue your dream of obtaining a college education. This was most likely not an easy decision to make and you will undoubtedly have many more difficult decisions to make regarding your future as a college student. One decision that may be the most vital of all is the college that you choose to attend. It seems that everywhere you turn these days there are ads for countless different colleges stating that they offer everything it takes to be a successful student. This may cause you to feel slightly perplexed when attempting to choose the college that will best meet your needs. Right now you might be wondering how you will ever choose the best one. Well, my friend, I am here to help you make that choice. Western Governors University (WGU) is by far the obvious choice. Western Governors University provides all of the tools that you will need to be a successful student and eventually a college graduate. Starting college can often be a stressful time for students. You may start to feel overwhelmed at the thought of simply starting the enrollment process. Luckily, at WGU a student mentor is assigned to you as soon as you apply to a specific program. A student mentor will be in contact with you before you are even officially accepted into the program to which you applied. Student mentors are available to answer any questions that you may have and to...
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...significance of a College Degree. It has become ubiquitous to incorporate the idea that in order to become a successful individual in our society one must excel in college. It is quite common for the youth of today to be frightened to enter the world of College. This is the beginning of a narrow ended road which ultimately leads us to adulthood and independence, and also for us to develop into that individual that we are destined to become. College ultimately epitomizes what type of person we have transformed into and what goals we have set and will achieve here on out. If you speak to any professor, doctor, lawyer or successful person in our society they will tell you education is the backbone of their success. A college degree symbolizes ambition, maturity, and resilience. Now this is not to say that those individuals without a degree cannot be successful, but most successful people will take this journey into the world of late night studying and caffeine overload, skipping meals and a constant feeling of being buffeted by an insurmountable number of tests and assignments, striving to achieve academic excellence while maintaining a successful, balanced and healthy lifestyle outside of school. I briefly interviewed 20 Mt. SAC students outside of the campus library to try to find out how the college lifestyle affects them. The interview was in a quick survey format with questions ranging from "What are some things that stress you out most about college?" to " What is your...
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...and College Success Recognizing and accepting personal responsibility is a major step in an adult college student’s life. It is one of the factors that separate, an adult from a child; unfortunately, not everyone makes that step. Personal responsibility is a cornerstone in achieving college success. It removes excuses and forces an adult college student to practice self discipline, self determination, and resource management, which are requirements for college success in any area of life. Personal responsibility is defined as taking ownership of an adult college student’s actions; accepting the consequences that come from their actions and understanding how it can impact others. By accepting personal responsibility, the student can achieve the goals in education by making the necessary sacrifices in his or her personal life, develop self discipline in study habits and time management, and effectively balance other responsibilities, such as work, social functions, and an obligation as a parent. As with life, without personal responsibility and the self discipline that comes along with it, success in college would be extremely difficult to achieve. Developing the self discipline for effective study habits, such as applying the necessary concentration on materials in going to be a challenge for an adult college student who have not had to study for a course in over ten years. A student will be required to handle effectively the many other duties an adult college student...
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...Personal Responsibility in College Success Samantha Farris Gen/200 May 19, 2014 Laura Pipoly Personal Responsibility in College Success Personal responsibility is a vital key to success in college. By securing a schedule and making both short and long term goals, one will be able to consciously maintain a higher level of personal accountability as it pertains to college success. Time and stress management are essential tools in dealing with day to day variations within personal and professional life. Personal responsibility is the one tool that will be the driving forcing one to be honest with themselves about all aspects of life while pursuing a college education. There are many tools that can be used to aid in the journey of personal responsibility in college success begins. Assessing time management is the first step. A clear and concise schedule should be made to include ample time for studies. While making this schedule time should be allotted for family situations as they may arise, work schedule, and leisure time. Life is always subject to change, so it is a good idea to build in extra time slots for study time and assignments. Next goals must be set. In setting goals, it is a good idea to set long term goals first. If one knows where they are trying to go then they can find their way. Many short term goals should be set to assist in meeting long term goals. It is imperative to be able to maintain stress levels if success in college is the long term goal. Setting...
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