In the age of social media, it can be all too easy to compare your accomplishments and goals to those of other people. With one quick swipe, you can view that girl from high school who travels all around the globe, or that boy from work who you have never personally spoken to but who's already got two degrees.

These kinds of comparisons are detrimental to your growth as a person.

As college students in 2019, we feel the need to constantly be doing something. We need to stack our real-world experiences for resumes, and we need applicable skills from jobs, along with a degree to keep the future us happy. Our future is completely dependent on the things we do now. With all of this in mind, our accomplishments can seem minor and even trivial to us.

We can get so caught up in the big goals like completing a degree or finding a career that our small goals like grades, tests, and extracurriculars can seem small by comparison. There seems to always be someone who is doing better. If you have a 3.0 GPA, that person has a 3.5 GPA. If you got accepted 3 graduate programs, they have been accepted to 5.

But keep this in mind, neither you or the other person is doing something wrong. Be happy for other people and their accomplishments, but don't forget to be happy about your own. You deserve it.

Make sure you always take time to appreciate yourself and everything you do! Be nice to yourself and always keep your end goals in mind, and always consciously take steps to achieve them.