As the new semester begins, everybody is stressing out. Are my classes going to be hard? Are my professors going to require a bunch of crazy things from me? Am I going to find a parking spot? All of these things we think about can ruin our semester. If we only focus on the bad things that could happen during the semester, they will come true.

This semester I am challenging myself and all of you, to have a positive outlook on everything. I have spent semester after semester hating my life because of everything that had to be done. I felt like there was never enough time to get everything done, which in all honesty you do have to sacrifice a few things to get everything done. There is never enough time to get anything in life done, there will always be things that you have to leave alone until a later date.

When I realized that if I could just change the way that I thought about everything, it would change the way everything went. Our minds control so much of our daily lives, that if we could just change the way that we think about school, we might all have a better semester. Could you imagine what the semester would look like if you didn’t start it out thinking it was going to be bad? What it would look like if we could start off the semester thinking that we could get all of our work done?

So, here is your challenge, each day you wake up, tell yourself that you are amazing. Tell yourself that you can manage all of your classes. Tell yourself that your social life won’t be over if you miss a couple of Marg Mondays and a few nights out with the girls. Tell yourself that you can make it through the semester with the grades that you want, and you will.