Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Thank you all for your interesting comments on the last article! I found it very refreshing to read some of your journals that gave me the feeling that you were standing right in front of me telling me this. Very nice job!

If I found your journal not adequate or not following directions, I sent you an email stating how they need to be upgraded. If you did not receive an email from me, you may assume that you got your +10 journal assignment points.


For your Journal Blog today, read the Daily Titan article I linked onto my Blog. After you read it, respond in writing to me just as you did last week.

2nd: You should then choose 1 other student's comments regarding the Success! article, read that comment, then write your own response to their comment. Post it.

3rd: Now, please create your own Blog under your name. You can click on the Help Screen to create your blog with pictures, music, etc. Have fun with it! It should be finished by Monday.

Mrs. Azimi

4 comments:

Miranda said...

After read the linked article in daily Titan, I got many ideas about the life in university.
Itis very interesting that the life in American university is much more stressful than the university students in China. Because most students in China spend in most time in high-school.When we inter into an university, the life in university is relax. Meanwhile, I think if I want to be a successful student in American university,I must have a plan for my daily life in university. I am a careless person, so time management makes me a long time to fix it out. I agree that a good time management is an effective key to our university life. I think life in American university is like our time limited writing. We should try our best in a limited time. In addition, I totally support that a strong goal will make me effort more. If I have a goal, I will feel like I have so much energy to reach my goal. More over, it is important to know how to relax yourself. When I was in high school, I had felt too much stressful, so I didn't do well in my classes. Fortunately, I found a way to release myslef and became much happier. I hope to a good student in American university, and I hope attain more in future. Thank you Mrs Azimi to show us such a good article!

Vinka said...

I think this is an interesting article. People who is a new student in the college or someone like me who still preparing to enter the college must be helped with this useful article. To be succedd in the college we must combine three aspects. There are time management, goal setting and art of mastery.

I agree that we must have a balance between plays and works. We are a human not a robot, so the human has emotion to feel and need communication with other. The other side, we must push our self and focus in the works. But remember, they have their own time.

The life is decided by the goals. More goals we have more succeess we will have in the life. But all goals will only had been reached if we put 100 percent in effort. The life and the future depends on our effort now.

Another important aspect is art of mastery. I get this like a self controling, that I think it becomes the most important in the life. If you can control yourself, you can have time management and decide the goals. That is the key.

By the way I really like the idiom "You do your part .. the sky is the limit". We can dream a lot of things and do all the efforts to get them as long as we don't reach the sky. But the sky can't be reached by us ever and never. So we must do our best for our life!

marvin_k said...

I have read the article, and I feel impress with it. For many students they thought that studying in the university would be their best time in their live, it's not always true. However it is also possible to be happened as long as students follow the rules. From the article I got some new knowledges about studying in the university, for example how to survive and how to manage time among study, family, and friends. For some students they also deal with work.It's no doubt that we must spend at least 3 hours each day to study at home if we want to get a good grade, however the article said that we must study 3 hours if we want to 4.00 in GPA. So we must have a commitment and also self-control to manage ourselves. I'm not wonder when read the highest rate of dropout come from freshment students, because they must adjust their lifestyle when they study in the university. In fact, we know it is not as easy as we thought, but the article have taught us that we must have a goal to achieve so we will keep motivated in studying. The article about the art of mastery also give me some idea about how to keep focus, so when we pass through all circumstances in relationship with family or friends will not affected us. Finally, according to the article, I can say "You do your part ... the sky's the limit."

Andy said...

According to the article, I can understand more about university life and importance of time management. It is really hard time in our life. Specially, when we go to a university in the United States, we have to overcome pressures come from studying, living, and so on. This time we will have a lot of changes including physical side and spiral side. It’s a crucial time in our life. If we don’t have good skills to manage the time, we will be collapsed in the rest of life. However if we pass this time, we will success in the future. So, a good time management is an effective key to our university life. Moreover, I think it’s really useful for students in the US when we have counselors who will help us to direct what we want to do, and we can have a good decision at important time.