Time management will make or break you
Lesson number one: managing my time wisely.
Time management and averyorganized planner.
This means prioritizing, which correlates with time management.
In high school, I was emphatic about getting good grades, and they came pretty easily.
But I slowly watched that slip away my freshman year in college.
I learned that I actually needed to study and put the energy into my grades.
It meant being fully awake at my 8 am class was put on the back burner.
So, I had to ask myself this “Why are you here?”
and that’s where I found my balance.
It took me a while to get my priorities in check.
Heck, it just about took me until senior year to really figure it out.
Strong friendships are not the easiest thing to maintain
I learned that people come and goall.
I transitioned through various priorities in college, and my group of friends changed along with those shifts.
I did these things on my own, despite what my group of friends were doing at the time.
This would cause me to stray away from one group and meet new people in the next.
I didn’t find it cliquey in college at least not like it was in high school.
They were the ones who encouraged me to do whatever I felt I needed to better myself.
They were people I didn’t need to stray away from.
The freshman 15 is not just for freshman
This one is a biggie.
Boy, did that really start to effect my weight.
Don’t ignore this advice.
I was working out and not seeing a difference.
My comfort zone was completely compromised, but I found out it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Sometimes it’s crucial that you agree to disagree, and that’s perfectly okay.
You’re bound to have clashing ideas in a house full of different mindsets.
When I was in high school, my friends were almost always there when I needed them.
After I left home for college, it seemed like they all disappeared.
That’s when I learned to start to grow some thicker skin.
I learned how to take a hit, because college was full of stressful and tough circumstances.
Having thick skin helped make me a stronger person and helped me bounce back whenever something bad would happen.
I had to step it up, be responsible andactually thinkbefore I did something.
Did someone sit me down and tell me they were there?
I had to take the initiative to seek out whatever resources and information I needed.
One of the most important things I learned about college was that my best resource was my advisor.
I had both an advisor and a mentor.
But I would have never gotten any of it if I didn’t ask.
These are all people who I may end up working with someday.
It’s about who you know as much as it’s about what you know.
It’s an exciting world beyond home
I went to a pretty diverse university.
When I was in high school, there was really no diversity.
The experience strengthened my understanding of why others do the things that are different than what I would do.
It opened my eyes to a whole new perspective of acceptance and living.
It’s not Vegas.
Nothing stayed there, especially when I put it online.
What happened to me in college definitely followed me out, the good and the bad.
I figured out the hard way that every social media post will follow me forever.
