3 Things I learned During My First Semester Of College
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3 Things I learned During My First Semester Of College

It Met and also crushed my expectations

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3 Things I learned During My First Semester Of College
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The very first semester of my college career was....interesting. I really got a chance to evaluate myself and to understand how I function as a student; and to my surprise it is VERY different from my high school experience.

The first big curveball for me was pacing myself. These college classes do not play around. you have to have things done in a timely manner and you really cant put it off until the last minute. That being said, you also cant shove it all on yourself at once. I took five classes and while some people can handle that, I was being overloaded up to my neck. This semester, I am only taking two classes on campus as well as two online. so that I avoid overloading myself and have time to de-stress.

A huge thing I discovered is that if you try to make friends you will and if you don't then you wont. Now, I am such a loner, I didn't try to make new friends and that is fine with me. But, If you want to make friends, odds are, someone else does too.

I think my favorite thought about the whole semester was that no one, and I mean literally no one cares about your highschool status. You were Valedictorian? Cool, that's nothing to me or anyone else. You were a Basketball star? Nice, but that's still nothing to me nor anyone else. Its amazing how little Young Adults actually care about those things in the past. 

For all of you incoming freshman, or anyone who needs some guidance. I can tell you to calm down and do your best, no one here is out to get you and your success is up to you and you only.

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