Student Success

Succeeding at ASU may sound hard to many but may sound easy to others. There are many things to help you stay successful at ASU. The obvious is getting good grades and attend class in order to obtain those good grades. The transition from High School to College is a big one. This transition is not like from middle school to high school. In this transition you have a lot more freedom. Good thing or bad thing? It can go both ways. Its good if you are good at managing time and good at making your own rules for school. Its bad in the sense that you will not have a teacher to tell you to do your work, you will not have a dean telling you to attend class. Many students think that the freedom means they can just ditch class and do whatever they like; WRONG!! To succeed at ASU you must attend class on a regular basis even though according to Afsaneh Nahavandi “ there is no attendance policy at ASU”. Another thing you must do that is really important is balance your time. That means that you must know when it is time to go out and have fun and when it is time to hit the books and study. If you cannot balance your time you are in trouble. Also don’t forget there is free tutoring offered at all ASU campuses , take advantage of the tutor for they can help you with what you need. One last thing get involved in clubs and organizations so that you can connect with students at ASU. Like Afsaneh Nahavandi said “take charge of your success at ASU…ITS UP TO YOU!”

Academic Integrity

Cheating is never right anywhere. Thus you should never even consider doing it because there is always a better way of doing things. Even though sometimes cheating looks easy and you might get away with it the consequences are quite severe at ASU if you get caught. Academic integrity is very serious at a University. If you ever get caught cheating at ASU they can fail you, expell you, and worst of all put a permanent “XE” on your official transcript that will follow you for the rest of your life. That “XE” will be seen by future employers, and schools you might want to attend. When they see that they know that you cheated and there is no way to cover that you were dishonest. Academic integrity can be violated in several ways. One way of being academically dishonest is to use a paper from one class in another class. The reason is you worked once for two grades. Another type of academic dishonesty is taking a test for another person or cheating during a test (either copying or getting the answers from someone other than you). If you ever come across a situation where your doubting whether what you are doing is academically dishonest the best answer is to not do it because if you’re thinking about it it’s probably wrong. Integrity as Don Galer said “Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do”. You have a bright future ahead of you, don’t mess it up by being academically dishonest and getting the permanent “XE”.

Diversity

Diversity is very popular today in the school systems here in Arizona. ASU is “one of the nations largest and culturally diverse public research institution” according to Delia Saenz. At ASU 23% of the students are of color. Of those 23%; 12% are Hispanic, 5% Asian American, 4% African American, and 2 % American Indian. That is a lot of people from different backgrounds and different lifestyles all at ASU pursuing the same thing, Education. How can diversity help me? First off diversity is a way you meet new people who are completely different to you. These people have different ways of living, if you experience the way they live and are it expands the way you look at life. At ASU there are “63,278 students from all 50 states of the US and 141 international countries". Which means that you can meet a person from Alaska as easy as a person from Iraq. Diversity brings different cultures to the table and gives different cultures to unite and work together. Diversity is not only at school it is every where. It’s at work, the street, stores. The US is becoming more diverse as time passes. You must be prepared for diversity if you are not because soon the world will be a diverse place. As the president of ASU Michael Crow says “We must find ways to reach into all our communities with warmth and Openness. We need to embrace cultural diversification in America and changing the culture of a University is the first step”.

Global Engagement I happens now!!!

The world’s resources are coming to an end being more limited every day around the world. Think of petroleum for example the gas prices are sky high compared to what they used to be that’s because people are not sustainable and globally engaged. What does it mean to be globally engaged? The answer is quite simple actually. To be globally engaged is to watch out for the world. Not just your state or your country but the whole world, to have a concern for what is going on around the world and to try and help. When we hear about the wars and tragedies going on in the world we don’t think they affect us but they do because they are the world which we live in. According to Bud Rock “being globally engaged is not an option; it is a reality”. I agree with his comment because what happens out in the world affects us no matter what we do. Take gas for example the US is fighting a war with another country (Iraq) and that is only causing gas prices to go up. Moreover prices on every thing are going up. That is not the end of it; because of the war the economy of the US is going down hill and is carrying the world economy with them because the US is one of the elite powers in the world. That one war just affected the whole world. Did you know that every 15 seconds a child dies around the world due to the water they drink? That’s right a child dies either from diseases or from thirst because of the contaminated water they drink or because of lack of water. There are places in Africa where they don’t have clean water or even have water at all, but here in the US we waste the most water in the whole world when a child could be drinking that. Next time you waste water think to your self a child just died wishing he or she could have tasted that water. Global engagement needs to be done; we must act to help ourselves, and the world.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, ASU defines it as the “spirit of creative risk taking. But what does that mean? Entrepreneurship simply means people who want to make money taking risk not waiting around for opportunities but instead making them. In today’s society entrepreneurs are not all for profit we have what is called for profit, no profit, and hybrid a mixture of both. Many of the richest people of America are entrepreneurs. Let us take for instance Bill Gates founder of Microsoft who is not only the richest man in America but in the whole world. Another important figure whom is an entrepreneur is Oprah Winfrey who is mostly known for her show “Oprah”. At ASU entrepreneurship is very important. ASU wants to prepare entrepreneurs or “coach” them for life as an entrepreneur. Actually, according to Dan O’Neal from the entrepreneurship program at ASU “ASU offers nearly 60 course” to help future entrepreneurs and “offers 5 different certificate programs in entrepreneurship”. In the future and the present entrepreneurs are people who impact the world the most today. If you think about it this way, they are the ones that start their own business and expand it which then causes the economy rise. They are the ones who have the money to make donations and to have non profit organizations to help a certain group of people. So if you see problems as opportunities then you have the mind of an entrepreneur and like Dan O’Neal ends his presentation “What will your mark be? How will you help the environment and the economy?”

Asu Libraries

Google is not the answer for every search especially when it comes to university level work. That is when ASU libraries are a very valuable resource to the students and faculty at all four campuses. While going to ASU students will visit the library on a regular basis on professor’s request. When given an assignment professors will not expect you to use Google as a source, "Instead professors will require you to use books, articles, magazines, and scholarly journals for your papers" says Mark Mason. Going to the library will help you achieve the grades you want making you academically successful. Using the books, magazines, etc in the library will give you evidence needed to get that A. When using the library resources at any of the four ASU campuses you also have the advantage of using the same data through technology at each campus. At all eight libraries you get the same valuable resources to help you write a successful essay or reports. The libraries at ASU have a large variety of articles varying from sports to the way of medicine. This can help you write a paper for any subject or course and you are almost guaranteed to find a scholarly article on any subject for you paper. The libraries web resources are not the only resources provided to you by the ASU libraries, they also contain different books for different subjects at every library. If a book you need is not at the library near you they can deliver the book for your use the next day. Not taking advantage of the ASU library will deprive you of the variety of books they have. Thus you will be wasting your tuition money if you do not take advantage of what the ASU libraries have to offer.

About me!!

Hey guys whats up!!! My name is Julio Garcia I am a freshman at ASU!! GO DEVILS!!!