“Deep breathe in and deep breathe out on the count of three. 1…2…3…,” I said as I wiped my tears away.
Struggling to find time for meetings, class assignments, research papers and community service, I crashed and could no longer see why I even came to college. What I was so eager to start in high school, I was so ready to end at that moment. I couldn’t see my college experience getting any better.
You’re probably going to experience that sometime soon, or maybe you already have and it’s ok.
It happens to the best of us. WELCOME TO COLLEGE, WHERE CHALLENGES MEET SELF-DISCOVERY!
However, your life is not over, it’s just beginning. Here are some helpful tips to help you overcome your challenges and getting you closer to achieve your goals.
One major key to having a prosperous semester is learning to manage your time—not only for school but also for your personal life.
Being involved on campus is great, but there is a such thing as getting overly involved (that was me)!
When you feel like you have a million and one things to do, it’s easy to feel that you don’t know where to start. You get drowned in your worries and you believe that you will never get done, well, all you have to do is WRITE IT OUT.
Grab your hefty dandy planner and write down the most important tasks due first and categorize it by the amount it will take to complete. Once you have written down all of your duties, it’s time to label them numerically.
My planner is my best friend and I never thought how helpful it would be until I came to college. Of course, in high school I was organized, but unlike college, you have less classes and activities to balance.
I believed my professors plotted against me to make my life miserable.
Until one day, I had enough. I gave myself a pep talk and though some days were still harder to overcome than others, I told myself it would be the end of feeling anxious.
You also have to learn to speak positivity into existence, because whatever you think is what you will become.
It is imperative that you are careful of the thoughts you think and the words you say because it can either make you or break you.
Lastly, you want to learn how to balance social and personal time, in order to stop feeling like you aren’t living your best college life!
You only have an undergraduate experience once, so make it the best!
Treat yourself to fun days where don’t do anything but activities with your friends. Every day look forward to doing something YOU want to do.
It is essential to know when to take care of business and it is also important to know when it’s time to put down the books. It’s my senior year and I am just starting to figure out how to do so!
It will take time learning to balance, but it is not impossible! With strategic goal-setting and hard work, you will accomplish you what you set out to become in your college journey! Go for it!
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