5A Steps to success

Starting out college everyone is nervous. This is for many reasons but most of all is the warning given out by everyone before you arrive. Everyone tells you it’s so hard and that you are all on your own to complete everything. Not only that but if you don’t make it you will have lots of debt and nothing to show for it. Everything adults and teachers tell you is about how you have insane workloads and no one to watch your back. But in reality it’s just the next step to independence. Just like the jump from elementary school to middle school and from middle school to high school, college is just the next step. Yes there is more work but it’s not nearly as bad as I was made to fear. In high school you’re in school 6 hours 5 days a week. From this you have maybe 2 hours of homework each night. So you’re working approximately 35 hours a week. In college it’s just a little higher workload but with reversed roles. What I mean is you spend 15 hours in class rather than 15 on homework. The biggest struggle the first few weeks of college is adjusting to the swap and actually completing the work despite the many distractions. During my first 4 weeks of college I have completed everything I have been assigned, however not everything has been to my satisfaction. Sometimes I have had too much work and had to rush through some assignments at that last second. To fix this problem I plan to work ahead. This way I feel less pressure when I get multiple big assignments. Other than this I feel confident that I have been doing well for a freshman. All in all the different workload in college is simply another step in progressing through the world.