Student Success Statement

"Many think that the short-term gain will be worth the long-term pain, but it isn't. In addition, using steroids is cheating, and there is nothing worse in sports then a cheater. Don't do it." ~ George Mitchel

An individual must always think of the repercussions before they decide to choose the wrong and cheat. For example, you must always be true to yourself and nothing less. If you don't know a curtain lesson or topic that isn't a reason for you cheat on the test or to have someone else do your homework. On the contrary, that is the class in where you should try harder to pass the course. I am currently in a psychology college course and it's not an easy class, so I know better than to cheat. Instead I am trying harder in that course and I spend most of my time studying than hoping for a miracle. 

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"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all" ~Benjamin Franklin
                   
                     What this quote means is that having everything but a kind heart will not make you a better person or successful. In other words, you may have the most money in the world or you have the newest iPhone in the market, but if you have no good heart, you are not going to live a happy life. For example, I may be considered spoiled by my parents, according to my friends, but I have a good heart. Every Sunday morning I go to mass and I do community service hours on Sunday by teaching the lords word to younger teens. I also don't forget where I came from. And I know that in the end of the day only my kind heart and my right mind will get me where I want to be, not my iPhone or materials, but only me. And this quote of Benjamin Franklin has said it best. Only having a good heart will take you anywhere you want to, not all of your riches, beauty, and strength matter.

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"Right is right only when entire" ~Victor Hugo
 When you tell a lie, you are doing what is wrong. But, when you tell half a lie, you are still doing what is wrong. Not unless you do tell the entire truth you are doing what is right. For example, if your friend likes a boy/girl and they tell you to tell them that they like them, and you do, but they reject them but you say that they like them, but it is not the right time, you are doing what is wrong. You might say this because you are trying to be kind to your friends feelings but you need to be honest because if you aren't, you are not doing what is right. So you must always choose the right and be a good person. 

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"Only those live who do good." ~Count Leo Tolstoy
         When you do something good, you feel good. For example, when you study for a test and get a high score, you are living your best life. You have nothing bad to feel about when you know you did the right thing. Also, if you help out in your community for the better you will feel good that you are helping some organization for the better. Making you live your life to the best of its ability.

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" It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the RIGHT WAY, the karma (good results, destiny, fortune, good luck) will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you." ~Dr. Randy Pausch.

         This quote's meaning is very powerful, it is telling the reader that it's important to lead your life the right way because that will determine where you will end up. For example, if I really do want to go to California State University at Fullerton, I will need to lead myself into studying a lot, as well as passing all of my courses. I know that it won't be easy, but it is up to me if I really want to go to that university. I know that some times challenges will take the best of you, but it is up to you on how you will handle the challenges. In the end, if you do decide to be an overachiever good things will come to you, but if you decide not to, bad things will happen to you. Lastly, its important to not give up, some things will take time, but it is up to you on what will you do to reach your goal(S).

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"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall de destroyed." ~Proverbs 13:20

 The person who hangs out with wise people and doesn't fool around in doing the bad or anything mischievous will be just as wise as his friends. I have learned a lot of lessons while in high school and the most important one I have learned was to hang out with the right crowd and to let yourself be influenced by the bad in people. For three years I had hanged out with the bad crowd, but this year I have actually gotten to hang out with three female friends of mine that I used to talk to before. They are honestly a blessing in my life because they have taught me that I have to take on risk and to actually try my best in everything. For example, one of my friends is just like me. And she is always telling me to try to do as much as possible because in the end I will get experience and it will help me academically wise. My other so called friends would have told me to just relax and leave things for the last minute, yet if we look at how much they have grown as a person the difference is even noticeable. They were just always in drama and what not, but with my new friends, it is very different. I am honestly thankful for my new friends.

Student Success Statement

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it."
                                           ~ William Penn

                 What this statement means is that right will always be right and wrong  will always be wrong. For example, when I do my homework and my classmates don't, I did the right for doing my homework, and they did what was wrong by coming up with excuses and not doing their homework. Also, wrong is wrong even when you feel like you are doing right. If you lie to make someone feel better then you actually just hurting them more. For example,if you cheat on a test and you say that you passed the test, even when you actually didn't because you cheated, then you chose the wrong.

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"Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often" ~Peter Vidmar

If you have a journal to write down your all time goals you will achieve it. For example, I have always wanted to be a teacher, so I know that I don't have to focus on anything else, but meeting my goal. I have also always wanted a new laptop to do all my work and all. But, I know that I need to work hard for it. meaning that I need to preserve and not think about anything else, but what I have always wanted to achieve in life.

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"A good name is better than anything you can achieve in life" ~Coach K

If you have a good name, people will trust you, like you, respect you, for being a great person. For example, if you are a person with a reputation for being rude, untrustworthy, etc people won't like you as much because of the all the unjust you have done. I'd say that my name is good for the most part, I am a good student, I know how to act in and outside the classroom, and I know how to behave with certain people around me. There are people that you can pay around with, while with others you don't play around with. But, a good name really does matter since its what people think of you.

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"A good name is rather to be chosen then great riches" ~Proverbs 22:1

        What this means to me is that if you have a good name you will be trusted and loved more by people around you. For instance, when you are a willing collaborator, always on task, organized, responsible, trustworthy, and a great student, people will tend to trust you a lot more than other students that don't do good. Lets take for example myself. I am a good student, I try to be the best in every subject in school, because I like my role model like to exceed in whatever position I tend to be in. My teachers may get to say nice things about me that may include: organized, respectful, on task, and trustworthy. And honestly, for that matter I love my name because I know that its a good name for me. I like that my teachers can trust me and know that I try as much as I can. 

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"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."

What this quote means is that you have to be yourself and not think that just because you are a basketball player that you are best at everything. For example, when you play a sport you should be kind and not always rude. You need to have good sportsmanship by being able to play the game completely. If you are kind outside the court then you have to be kind while playing in the court. this also means that you must be treating others the way you want to be treated.

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"you learn to do, by doing" Spencer W. Kimball

      What this student success statement means is that we get to learn a lot more faster by doing stuff yourself. For example, if decide to copy your friends homework or classwork. That means that you aren't learning, but that your friend, the one you copied off on is the one who actually is learning. In other words, when I first learned how to solve rational inequalities in my Pre- cal class I didn't know how to do it, until my partner showed me the steps on how to solving it and she made me solve it by myself. Now, that I had Pre-cal again I get how to solve Rational Inequalities even better, thanks to her help. In the end, we get to do by doing and by being brave not by having someone do it for me, but by actually doing it yourself. 

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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad."~ Abraham Lincoln.

This quote means that when you do good it'll make you really happy because you are doing the right thing. But, when you do wrong things you will not feel as good as you did with the good things. For example, when I do the wrong by not following the rules or for whatever reason it is I dont feel so good. but when I do the right thing I honestly feel good. The reason for this is because you are doing something that should be done all the time.

In other words, when I help out the elderly I feel good because I know that I am doing the right thing. So, when I help out the coordinator of the yoth group for my community church I feel good because I know that she is a very forgetful person and she needs help throughout the way. But, when I don't have time to help her out I feel really bad because I know that she needs help in managing things.