Sunday, January 26, 2014

Letter to my classmates (the beginning of our journey)


Dear classmates ,
      I believe it has been a tough journey for every single one of us that was capable of accomplishing all the hard work that was put this past semester. Yeah we all know that college is not easy and that many of the things we did back in high school have no significant approach to our college academics. We are now starting our second semester of college and learned new ideas, new perspective and learned a little bit of ourselves.
     I learned many new things this past semester that I never really took in count of. Ah! those stressful nights of studying, trying to cramp all the information that was going to be on the test the next day and barely sleeping 3 hours. Waking up in the morning cramping more information. When it came time to the test I felt like everything that I studied had slipped past my head, as if I had not learned the topic. Why did I do such a thing to myself? Procrastination is one thing everyone does. We as students feel like putting aside important things and doing them last minute will make us feel better. When in reality it makes us feel worst.  I did this a couple of times, especially those days where I would chose to hangout with friends instead of studying for a big math exam. I learned that I was not doing any good to my self and that if I kept doing things last minutes I was going to pay the consequences of my grades. So I’m giving you this advise, DO NOT PROCRATINATE! this semester and do everything on time because for one thing it makes life a bit better. It will not hurt to put all the fun things aside for a while and make school your number one priority. Plan ahead and do everything on time.
        Time management can be hard for some people but I never thought it would be hard for me since I’m such an organized person. Things started to build up and I couldn’t find a way to make things work and have a schedule for the plans I had during the week.  I felt like everything crashed once I got a job because I felt like the free time I had before I started working became my work schedule. Working every other day would be hard to plan how I would do such things like homework, studying, and going to psychology researches in order to get credit for my class. This was not my greatest weakness considering procrastination my first. But it did affect me in ways that I would spend most of the days doing one thing instead of all the things I actually had to do. I did manage to get it together once I settled in my job. I used an agenda that by the end of the semester became my best friend. I kept everything organized and seeing that I had to do lets say more than three things in a day, it motivated me to actually do the things instead of just doing one thing and stressing over the other. An agenda can be a great thing for everyone because it helps you plan and organize your things so that way you have more time and your able to manage it. My advice would be to stay organizes with work, homework, and other things you have to do during the day. I think time management is one of the important things that every college student should be aware and should keep in count of for the rest of their career.
         The last thing I would like to share with you guys that I thought was very helpful in my first semester is go to your professor’s office hours. We all have questions to ask to our professors, but sometimes we don’t have the chance to ask during class or simply we are scared to. So why not stop by their office, introduce ourselves and get help when we need to. By going to office hours you are getting an extra hour or so of help and the fact that you are capable of going is a plus to boost our confidence with understanding the course. I hope these tips help every single one of you and good luck with your studies and the new semester ahead of us.

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