When we went to school, we clearly identify which are the students that succed and the ones that found it difficult to go ahead. I suppose that everyone of us should want to be successful at school. But, What do we need to do it? It is not a secret. There are characteristics and strengths we must pay attention in order to succeed.
As a first characteristic of successful students is that they always take notes and pay attention to the teacher. What is the bennefit? With notes, you can give propper following and go back when you need to remember something in particular.
When you take notes and you get familiarized with the progression of classes, you have what it takes to understand the following concepts and theories.
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By now, I just want to share with you a phrase I saw at Michael Moore’s movie “SiCKO”, which is really stirring and inner-reflexive.
The key phrase is:
A great achievement for democracy is to think in “our”, instead of “my”, benefit.
When you see cultures like the French, British, Canadians, Swedish ones; you understand that the social success is lead by the common benefit.
In contrast, USA and Mexico (where we have spent years trying to adopt our northern-neighbors’ capitalist focus and social lifestyle) are places where you can not think about getting something for free. Everything is business. Everything has a cost. An if it does not has a cost (talking about Mexico), normally you just can not expect quality.
Hi there to you visitors of my blog. One of the main reasons that I have to do this blogging effort is to improve my English skills as I am going to study a masters degree at a English taught university. Indeed, I’m so happy because today I got the results of the Institutional version of the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language) and my score was 537, which is closer to the minimum 550 points I need.
My weaknesses were the Listening Comprehension and the Grammar sections. Thus I will be taking the worldwide recognized TOEFL version (International) on January 12th, I started to look for audio material to improve at least the first of those weaknesses.
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