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Balancing Life And College Isn't Easy

Having a life and going through college is a struggle

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Balancing Life And College Isn't Easy
Gabby Powell

Sometimes people don’t realize how hard life really is in college. College isn’t easy, but it’s not just an educational part, it’s everything. The first year of college is hard because you leave your hometown, you have a new life and your classes are much more difficult.

Everything about your first year is tough and everyone feels the same way. Overwhelmed and alone. Then sophomore year comes along and you have a set friend group, roommates, people that know you and a lot more responsibilities in your life.

This is the year you should have your major picked and start to look at what you will be doing for the rest of your life while juggling friendships ending and starting. After that, the junior year comes along and you’re supposed to know what you’re doing after college. You’re supposed to have internships, while your juggling classes that are primarily based on your major.

This year is the year where you have your friends, possibly a boyfriend, and your social life is doing great, yet you are focusing on doing well in school and being okay. After that, you’re a senior and classes either get easier or way harder.

You become so excited to leave and start your adult like that you often forget that this is your last year of college. By this time in your life, you should be figuring out where you’re going after school ends and where life is going to take you. Throughout college you have are juggling about fifty things at once and to me, that’s one of the biggest challenges.

Sometimes people can forget how much college takes out of you. We have tons of school work, tons of activities to beat, and if you’re like me clubs and other organizations take up your entire life. In college, it's really easy to get off task, it’s easy to not go to class, not study and to just stay in your bed all day. But for the kids, that go to the library, go to class and study hard, while juggling organizations, friendships and other aspects of everyday life.

It’s hard.

College isn’t only hard due to the classes you take, even though they do add stress, but college is difficult because the social aspects are much more intense.

For me, growing up with strict parents, I was never allowed to sleep out on a school night or hang out with friends’ super late, but in college, it’s much different. You don’t have your parents to tell you to get up, you don’t have them to say no, you’re an adult now and let me tell you, adulating is hard.

Every day I try to figure out what the point of college is because sometimes when you’re in the library until 1 a.m. — I just can’t see the point in all of this. But, I guess as life goes on, I’ll slowly start to figure it out. I hope.

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