Blog post 1: college
Austin Underhill
When attending college, it is important to keep a focused
mindset to accomplish your goal that are set for you to achieve. With the
proper study habits and materials, students can be successful while attending
college. Without proper ways, maintaining your set goal can be very difficult.
Many people face this problem throughout their college career, making sure that
you stay on track and not get distracted by out siding events will help you be
successful.
Going to school can be expensive and very time consuming.
This causes a lot of stress on some people that attend it because many people
have jobs, family, and other priorities to maintain. Making time for school can
be very difficult but the reaping the rewards from the completion of school can
help in many ways. From pay raises, to higher education, these things help
people get a better more understanding grasp on the way things work and why
they function the way they do, all these factors can be positive effects in every
day. Just from completing the set goals you have in school all these things are
possible.
Although
there are many rewards from attending college, there are also equal or more
consequences that can come from college that affect in more than just a
positive way. If people do not have the correct goals for accomplishment,
college debt can get a person in a hole that may take years to pay off. It can
be every expensive to go to college if you don’t have grants or scholarships to
fall back on and many people still may struggle even with these things
available for them. Even being a college athlete which school is almost paid
for, maintaining school work is key because the person can lose it all if they
slip up and let their grades fall.
Keeping
track of school work is also very important because if you let the assignments
pile up, and realize at the last moment that there are tons of things that need
to be turned in, this can cause stress and depression. This leads to students
dropping out or even worse committing suicide because they feel like they
aren’t good enough or smart enough to complete school. All these factors affect
the average college student in many ways. Although it is said that college is
supposed to be the best time of your life, not keeping up with your priorities
will turn this statement around.
