Ten Tips for Student Success

St. Johns University

1. Attend your classes. Remember in the words of Woody Allen ‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up’.

2. Know your faculty. Make sure you know who your teachers are, when their office hours are and how to contact them.

3. Make sure the faculty knows you. Sit in the front of the classroom. Participate in class discussions. Consult with your teachers during office hours.

4. Use a daily planner. Note the dates of exams, assignments, term papers, etc.

5. Be organized. Prioritize your responsibilities. Mange your time. Remember everyone has the same 168 hours a week, only some of us use them better than others.

6. Know your campus resources. Visit your Academic’s Dean Office regularly. Become familiar with the services and programs offered by the counseling center, the freshman center, the career center, the campus ministry office and the student life office.

7. Take care of your health. Get enough sleep. Eat well-balanced meals. Exercise regularly. Make informed and mature decisions about alcohol, sex and drugs. Visit the Health Office as needed.

8. Work only as necessary. Try not the exceed 20 hours during a school week. If possible, work on campus. Apply for financial aid and loans if you need them. Manage your expenses very carefully.

9. Get involved in campus activities. It will help you learn valuable skills, expand your social network and enhance your self-confidence.

Seek out opportunities to apply what you learn in the classroom.

10. Keep your eyes on the prize. Clarify your goals. Know why you are in (high school or) college in the first place. Visualize your success on a daily basis.

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Successful Students

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10. Successful students are good time managers. Successful students do not procrastinate. They have learned that time control is life control and have consciously chosen to be in control of their life.

An element truth: you will either control time or be controlled by it! It’s your choice: you can lead or be led, establish control or relinquish control, steer your own course or follow others. Failure to take control of their own time is probably the no. 1 study skills problem for college students. It ultimately causes many students to become non-students! Procrastinators are good excuse-makers. Don’t make academics harder on yourself that it has to be. Stop procrastinating. And don’t wait until tomorrow to do it!

The 10 items listed above paraphrases from an article by Larry M Ludewig called Ten Commandments for Effective Study Skills which appeared in The Teaching Professor, December, 1992.

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Student Success Statement

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

                                                -Henry David Thoreau

This statement is true because goodness leads to choosing the right. Goodness is a nice feeling because you can explore so many things in life but that is choosing the right things. For example if you join any team or sport you feel good in yourself because people that do it have never tried it before and they feel accomplished of themselves. That’s why when you have goodness in yourself it never fails for you because choosing the right doesn’t fail you either and it’s just a wonderful feeling you get inside of you. So if you accomplish something you should feel proud of yourself.