Going into my freshman year of college, I had the total mindset of C's get degrees. I did not care how I did on that test or that paper, just as long as I passed the class. It was the kind of mindset where I would walk back to my dorm anxiously awaiting the three hour nap I would take instead of being productive like I should have been. I would receive constant low B's, C's and not so rarely, D's on assignments but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. I thought life would just come to me somehow and that I would become an NBC Journalist in the heart of NYC one day without having to work for it.

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Then sophomore year hit. Biology hit. Science has never been my forte and no matter how hard I tried to act like I knew what I was doing, I didn't. I was so focused on trying to do well in that course and prove to others I could do well, I started trying in every course. Before I knew it, I was doing better than I had ever done. I had started working at Starbucks and was doing around 30 hours a week along with my sorority activities. The motivation that kicked in just from attempting to do well in Biology was a game changer for me.

I know it's easier said than done to create that motivation and drive inside of you, especially as freshman. You think you have all these years to get your life together and figure out what you're going to do but it really goes by in the blink of an eye.

Now with only a couple months left until graduation, I have done two internships, maintained a job, sorority, school, and social life. I can honestly say that it is the best thing you can do. Keeping busy and staying motivated helped me not to grow anxious of all the little things and helped me to not get inside my head at night cause at the end of each day, I'm exhausted.

Go out and get that internship. Go out and do that homework that you don't want to do. You're always getting one step closer to your dream.