College can be tough especially when you're trying to figure out life at the same time. Here are the signs you should be paying attention to if you think you may be on the wrong path.

1. Your grades are slipping

Your grades are getting worse and worse, but the real kicker is that you don't think you care enough anymore to change. Whether it's poor test scores, because in truth you can't study for something that doesn't make you feel good now, or poor homework grades because it's dang near impossible to do work outside the classroom for a subject that doesn't make you smile anymore.

2. You don't like talking about school

For any number of reasons you have stopped enjoying talking about school with friends, family, or really anyone. Think back to a time when you were excited to learn in school; excited about studying a subject that ignites the passion fire within you. If you do not feel that same excitement, then chances are your not going to talk about it with other people.

3. Ditch master

You have literally become the best class skipper ever to walk through a campus. You know exactly what classes you can skip, how many times you can skip in accordance to rules and your grades, what impact each skip has on your GPA or other standing, and how to even get away with ditching. If you put as much effort into the class as you do creating apologetic lying emails to send to your professors, you would probably be doing well enough you could afford a couple days off with no consequences.

4. Priorities

Your priorities have completely changed from when you first started college. Party's, friends, activities, work, and "personal time" have taken the place of where school used to be. Not just school mind you, but a specific major that you once thought was your passion or goal to accomplish.

5. You don't feel good

When you think about school, about your major, about going to class, or doing the work associated with your study you don't feel good. You don't feel good at your core. Whether it's a pit in your stomach or an uneasy anxious feeling that washes over you like a cold moist winter wind against your vulnerable and exposed skin. When you think about anything, you need to feel good. If you don't it is wrong. "It" being the situation, circumstances, events, or decisions that make up your life. You might need to do some searching but, eventually, you will come to a point where you truly know if you feel good about something, or you feel bad about it.

If you find that you might fit one of these five criteria, you might want to do a little soul searching and really attempt to discover or rediscover your passions. You might want to go on a mission to find what it is that makes you truly happy. If you fall into all five categories and feel that you have been there for quite some time, you might reconsider why you are even in college. Is college even right for you? I mean, it's pushed upon us all but for all the wrong reasons. College is not right for everyone. Don't fall prey to the out-dated thinking that you have to go to college to make money or make something of yourself. If you do what makes you the happiest, then the money will come. The most important thing in life is to always feel good right now. Remember that, apply it, and see where the positivism takes you.

Conceive, Believe, Achieve

- JK