"The person to your left and right, won't be here graduation."
That's what I was told my freshmen year of college. I didn't understand what that meant when the director of the EOF program, that fund me, said back in the summer of 2015. Now when I look back at it. i can see what it mean now. When school started in late August fall semester it felt like a dream come true. I been dreaming about attending college since my freshmen year of high school. I wanted a 3.0 or higher, internships, major in business, be independent, party, and have a lot of friends or a lot of people that know me. I have done all of that and even more than that. The school year was successful for me. I made my self proud, family proud, girlfriend proud, friends proud, and whoever else who was paying attention to my life proud. I thank god for everything he has done for me. I am truly blessed.
Now, I went into my summer, which was interesting (but I'll save that for another conversation for us to have), but it had it's up and down. I managed to make it back on campus. Before, I came back. I had multiple dreams on many occasions being on campus and being around the same people. I dreamed so much about the people I was overexcited and was getting nervous but I sucked it all in and came in. What happened next, I came back and campus ready to start my second year at school.
I have been at school for a week now already getting homework from my classes. I even got a test to take Thursday but am not going to go off topic. Since being back here, I haven't seen some people I started out with. I thought maybe they are always in there room, our class schedules are different, or they're commuting now. I was shocked when i found out those were not the case at all. Some of the people I started out with happened to be either trying to write appeal to get back into school, or just failed out completely. I was shocked because I had class with some of people who going through this or I saw them everyday. They looked like they was taking care of business in class because they use to participate and ask questions. But it turned out that they failed their classes not because of what they did in class, but what they didn't do outside of the class. Homework was incomplete and test scores was low because they didn't have time to study. The reason why they didn't the time to study is because they partied every Thursday on "Thirsty Thursday". If you are a college you know what "Thirsty Thursday" is. For those who don't know, that is the day college students get together that night and take the load off of the week they were having and just "turn up". But if you do it too much it affects your school life and your personal life as well.
The students I started with are out of school and they have to explain to their parents or guardian why they are not in school. Most of them or all of them I know had to take out a loan to stay on campus. I had to do it myself and made sure I got what was worth out of it. If I was able to do that then it is possible for them as well. I know if they ever make it back in school they are going to have to chance because if it happen again it's a done. Three chances don't come around much in real life. I wish everyone who is going through this or has gone through this good luck. If you haven't gone through this, avoid this as much as possible. You can avoid it by simply staying on top of your school work and managing your time out of school so you could study and pass the text and complete your homework assignment. There is nothing wrong with "Thirsty Thursday" or the "turn up". Every college student need that to get a boost of energy because the work be stressful. I do it and I have fun doing it. My work come first before I do it, because if you put your work on hold to turn up, it's a big chance you won't come back to it. That's happens a lot to those who are having problems maintaining a 2.0 GPA. So make the right choice.
I hope I was hopeful.
