*Enter cocky freshman*
You're the shit. You've completed high school and you believe the worst is behind you. Now, you're your own person. You're in charge of you and only you. High school has taught you what you can and can't handle while also giving you an idea of what you're interested in doing for the rest of your life. Now, you've finished your first semester of college and you're pretty proud of how things turned out. You didn't flunk any courses and people have told you that first semester is by far the hardest semester of college. So, second semester must be the same -- wrong.
Fifteen hours is all you need. Fifteen hours a semester and you'll graduate on time because no one wants to graduate late. You learned from your first semester that you don't want to take a lot of classes that make you read a lot or write a bunch of papers at the same time. However, you think "well I survived first semester ..." Stop. Fast forward. You and your friends have been locked in a study room for six hours straight studying for a test you haven't prepared for whatsoever. You look around. One is passed out in the corner, giving up. One is crying in the opposite corner because she's never failed a test in her whole life. Another is chugging three Red Bulls and writing like a crazy person. Then there's always that one person who sits on their phone, permanently procrastinating.
You've hit the second semester slump. You find yourself browsing the same four photos on your Instagram feed for hours. You check your phone even if there aren't any new texts or notifications. Your Twitter feed seems to never end like the piles of work gathering on your desk. You think again, "Well I survived first semester ..." Suddenly, it hits you: You forgot you have a midterm paper due tomorrow! Ah yes -- that 15-page paper worth a quarter of your grade. You've slumped that low. Let the stress commence.
Good news for you: You only have a month left. It's not too late to recover and it's not too late to give the second semester a roundhouse punch to the face. You can do this. It's the home stretch and within a month, you'll be chilling at home or laying on the beach enjoying a couple of months to yourself. Overcome this second semester slump. You got this.
