Commentary by Deja Davis, Managing Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPrioritize.<\/p>\n
Whatever you want to achieve in school or even in life you have to commit yourself to it, be consistent and focus your energy on it. It is so easy to lose motivation and lose sight of your objectives.<\/p>\n
Some people see this as a negative trait but personally, procrastinating helps me get work done and keeps my mind running. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I do want to start completing assignments ahead of time but people have different concepts to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t just say it but actually DO it.<\/p>\n
Every semester you say that you will do better. You will get better grades. You will involve yourself in more extracurricular activities and make moves into your future.<\/p>\n
What is stopping you? It is a great feeling when you take time out and actually do what you say because the only thing stopping you is yourself.<\/p>\n
Be open to trying new things and getting out of your comfort zone. This semester I made sure to meet new people, go to events on campus that I normally would have never gone to and just becoming more involved.<\/p>\n
It is not good to just go to class and stay in your room. You have to get out there and just get the experience. I found out so many new things about myself and never thought I would do any of it.<\/p>\n
It is a great idea to make goals at the beginning of the school year to better yourself as a student and person.<\/p>\n
Everyone wants to achieve their goals, but it can be too easy to fall back into bad habits. That does not have to happen if you take steps to get into the right mindset, steadily work towards your goals and make efforts to stay on track so you can accomplish everything you wanted by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deja Davis Managing Editor \u00a0 Wow, where has the time gone? It still feels like yesterday when I was a freshman moving my whole life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_plus_post_options":"{}","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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