Becoming A more Effective Student
The United States Department of Education public the data that shows the four-year graduation rate in California State University, Northridge is approximately 14%, the average six-year and eight-year graduation rate is between 44% and 49%, respectively. I can not help but wonder exactly the matter that is holding us back from graduating? How can we face the challenge to learn more and successfully graduate? After my first month of CSUN, I realized that I must sacrifice inclination to be more effective in my academic life, so in order to do this, I have to decide what my priorities are. So how will I become a more effective student and combat the negative factors on becoming successful? The right answer for me is to manage my time, improve my study habits, setting goals or schedule, prioritize and balance our normal life(social, health, entertainment and daily life). I believe that through certainly carry out these things that we would learning in a higher level and getting back on track, thus , hopefully we can graduate in four years.
Before we figure out the solution, we need to find the issue, internal or external factors may cause we failed or stoping us to becoming a effective students. I interviewed 7 senior students at CSUN and mot of them feel that balancing their school life and normal life is one of the most difficult challenge because they lack motivation. But what can we do to fix this problem? First, make sure you are not disturbed when you study. And never procrastinate your plan to study, because every student’s main priority is to study and concentrate on our passion and energy on graduating. Then you need to begin with managing your time. It is need to make a clear, consist...
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...To maintain health we must have a good habits, such as eat right and on time, exercise, get enough sleep, keeping mental health. Must checking ourselves every, control our diet, stress and rest time. Once you feel not good in your body you must find the campus medical resources or go to the hospital. As we all know, a good and healthy body can help us to continue or work and give us the passion,energy and positive effect, thus, we can handle the difficulties in our school life. So don’t to belittle that kind of health matter. Having a clear goals, schedule improvement, prioritize,having a good habits of learning and keep healthy, are indispensable part of being a more effective student. By doing so, we can get more benefits, both have fun and study. In the end, I wish all the students can find their own way to face the university life and get the satisfied results.
...ut fun, I'm stressing my mind too much. Austin Dopp and Thomas Parish created an ABC journal about how to succeed in college. They mentioned that students need to study but also take a break and be ready to learn and pay attention (Dopp, Austin, Parish). Powers and Swick mention in tip seven, celebrate small accomplishments along the way, is that you should celebrate your small accomplish like tests, quiz, and finishing you semester.
The sleep deprivation, stress, and lack of exercise all resort back to the issue of food options that are accessible to students. It is evident that students are affected by stress and lack of sleep using food as a coping mechanism. This goes back to the unhealthy foods that are provided on campus that students have easy access to during these periods of time. All of these unhealthy and unlimited food choices offered add to the difficulty that student have making time for working out because of daily burnouts. These unhealthy foods students are eating only hinder students more, reducing the energy levels in students even more.
It is easy to forget that a huge part of your success in college is staying healthy, keeping a sharp mind and sound body. It is very important to eat right and to maintain a routine sleeping schedule. Staying active and making sure you get enough sleep so that you can keep yourself healthy. A recent study found that walking once a day increase your memorization, which in turn helps you to do better studying.
healthy is a major component in ones’ overall wellbeing, more so mentally, but being healthy
Having a healthy body and lifestyle prevents diseases (e.g. diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and so on). It also keeps a person’s immune system strong. This is vital, since if your immune system isn’t strong, your body can’t fight infections or diseases easily. Poor eating habits and lack of exercise, as part of an unhealthy lifestyle, can cause obesity and illnesses. Further, a healthy lifestyle also helps to reduce stress, increases a person’s energy levels, increases life-expectancy, improves self-confidence, helps with mental stability, increases happiness and can encourage creativity. It is also important to have a healthy body and lifestyle because it improves a person’s life and general
Some advices that student must take into consideration is not to waste their energy on unnecessary activities. Should always have healthy food. Students should never skip Suhur as it gives the student the energy for the day. Also students should take into consideration sleeping early to not miss Suhur time and to not be late for the classes. Moreover, if the student has problems with digesting heavy or cooked food should take into consideration eating nuts, dairy products and fruits.
Maintaining our bodies healthy is very important because our bodies are the most important thing to us because we live in them and we live in them for the rest of our lifes. We can keep our bodies healthy by always making sure we eat healthy and not just salad healthy but over all healthy. Exercising is a very important factor for our bodies and exercising will maintain us in shape and will be easier to do things as we get older. The doctors is something we should be visiting on a regular basis to make sure we are healthy and nothings wrong. Always make sure that if you’re going to be dedicated to a healthy life style stick to it and surround yourself with healthy positive vibes and people. Be active and try to prevent anything that will cause you harm or injure you.
The author should start by making measurable goals for each area of wellness. For instance, Occupational wellness can be improved by maintaining a healthy work-life balance. The author needs to discuss of getting a set schedule and work limited hours. Specifically the author’s set schedule consists of working a week on three times by working the weekends only and limiting work to a maximum of 25 hours a week while being a full time college student. Another way to develop occupational wellness is learning to assess strengths and weakness. To assess strengths and weakness, the author should write in a notebook after every shift for ten minutes and reflect on what went well and badly during the shift. Intellectual wellness can be established by keeping up-to-date with current events. To keep up with current events, the author can watch the news for 30 minutes Monday- Thursday in the morning before class. Another strategy is developing new skills. During the year the author could decide to minor in psychology or nutrition in order to broaden her education and perspective. The next semester, the author could add two prequisites for the minor to her schedule. Lastly nutrition can be improved in many different ways such as eating breakfast three or more times a week for the next month. Nutrition can also be improved by drinking at least 3 glasses of water per day for the next two months. Carrying a water bottle will help the author achieve this goal. With these little adjustments life can make a difference personally but professionally
In high school, there are no labs and libraries for students. At school, the teacher will supervise your study. The basic day of the school, if you have any questions you can ask the teacher. The teacher will push you to learn and correct your mistakes at any time. This behavior is very student learning efficiency. I remember that in my sophomore year, our biology and geography should take advanced exams. The pressure of study is very large. We have some slackness two months before the exam. When the teacher found this situation, will take some small tests, and set the rankings. In order for us to be spiritually motivated, he often say something encouraging us in the class. At home, I cannot be lazy either. Because my family will supervise my study just like my teacher. But not in college like high school, especially when I came to the United States. There is a 24-hour library and lab. These conveniences can help me to learn. After class, we can go to the library to borrow some professional books to read, you can also go to the computer lab for some information from the Internet. The most important thing is that I have a good place to study, that is success center. This place really helps me a lot, where I can often write my homework, and there are good teachers to help me check and change the mistakes. When I feel tired, I can communicate with my
What contributing factors affect student motivation towards success in college? Motivation is a force that helps people to achieve what they yearn to be, which helps people conquer obstacles to reach a goal. Students can be physically present in the classroom, but mentally absent. Many things can play a factor in student academic success from the quality of the professors’ lecture, to sufficient and modern facilities or the effective engagement between student and professors. In many researches including the books Lives on the Boundary by Mike Ross and Academically Adrift by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa it demonstrates factors that students face in the achievement of academic success. Those factors that coincide on student academic success are motivation, life responsibilities, and preparation.
After find confident and career goal, students need to work hard toward it. These are some solutions to make students avoid being lazy. When students register for classes, they can start by taking the classes that they most familiar with or the classes they will do good. Students can easily avoid being lazy by pick classes that interest them or make them feel like learning it. Then they can start by find some motivation to finish the courses or college, the motivation can be like; try to impress friends, to- complete goal, to get out of school as much as possible or to get a career. Like Steve Mueller stated “Laziness is a mental state in which a person lacks energy and/or the necessary willpower and desire to perform a given task.” (Way to fight and overcome laziness).
To keep the body at optimum level, you need to take the necessary steps to maintain your health as well as prevent the onset of diseases. It is therefore important to adopt a healthy and active lifestyle—by eating nutritious food, doing daily exercise and using natural health products.
Ways I can improve my Physical health: The only reason I sleep late is because of my homework and tutoring lessons. I have some solutions I’ve applied during this year. I have stopped activities such as art class, talked to my tutoring and piano teachers about my school work, don’t procrastinate, give myself hope and informing my parents about my busy schedule.
Health is a vital component in our everyday life. If it is compromised, everything else goes down with it. Health affects an individual drastically; therefore, it is imperative that we take good care of our bodies in order to maintain normal body functions that can help us go through our normal day-to-day lives without fail. There are many factors that can affect health--one of them is Education. Health education feeds emotions that will motivate us to do a better job at being caretakers of ourselves. It can therefore, be said that health education can encourage people to act on their own personal health.
Staying healthy is the most important thing that one can do. You may be asking yourself, how can I keep myself healthy or what can one do to stay healthy. A way to maintain good health is from exercise, eating healthy foods, getting enough rest, keeping good hygiene and regular doctor’s visit. Good nutrients is a necessity to stay healthy and that can be obtained by taking multivitamins and other kinds of supplements. Taking a day off is also a great thing to do to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Maintaining good health can be done by keeping these routines up.