College is a stressful time and it’s super easy to get caught up by a bad test grade, a break up, or a hard day. More often than not you allow a negative experience to translate into your self-worth as a person. The first few months of college, especially if you’re a Freshmen, can be filled with self-doubt and a lot of late night thoughts about if you made the right decision by choosing the school, or moving away, or staying home, is your major the right choice, is this where you want to spend four years?

1. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars. - Martin Luther King Jr” There are going to be many lows throughout your college career, but those lows are not the end. Those lows are reminders to push past and open your eyes to all the things you are capable of accomplishing.
2. "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better. - Harvey Mackay” It is so easy in college and generally in this current culture to allow negativity to win, to allow your mindset to be shifted. Positive thinking is imperative at a time in your life filled with so many uncertainties.
3. “Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hughes” Listen to me, your parents, your advisor, your friends, your professor do not have the power to tell you that your dreams or your degree is not right for you. You are the only person that can make that decision. Don’t give up on your dreams.
4. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill”You got a 55 on your last chem test? Okay bad grades happen, but you can change that, you can consciously make a decision to do better. Don’t allow a bad test grade to put you in a negative mindset because when that happens then you actually fail. Keep pushing forward.
5. “Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do. -Denzel Washington” Study for the test, stay in on the weekend, miss the party. Do all the things that you need to do, so one day you are able to do all things you want to do.

Take what you need from this list and allow them to help you.