Final blog

The first semester has finally come to an end. It has certainly been a semester of learning and adjusting to what college will be like for the next 3 years. I believe I learned more in this semester then I learned in a whole year of high school. Not only have I learned a lot about school but also about me and how I had to and will continue to have to adjust my ways in order to be a successful college student.

                I have learned so many things that I can’t name them all but the biggest thing I have learned to do is use better time management in college. Time management is no joke in college, if your plan is to be successful that is. I have always been that kid throughout high school to not really care about assignments and push them off to the last second. Now that I’m in college that doesn’t work, there’s not enough time in the day to get everything done definitely if it’s a college assignment. College is taken very serious and teachers can tell if you hold off an assignment all the way to the last minute. That is probably the biggest adjustment I have made since I have entered and it is not an easy adjustment by any means. There are many distractions that take place at college but the thing I realized is that these things don’t go away they go on every day so it’s best to just get your work done then enjoy the extracurricular activities that go on so you’re not stressing to get a giant assignment done on time. 

                Learning how to be a successful time manager was very tough for me. Main reason why, I’m a college athlete my schedule is crazy. I am on the southern football team and we have practices and lifts. Everyday practices go from 3-6 besides Monday that would be our day off. It got really tough at times this semester where I would find myself so overwhelmed with football that I just couldn’t handle the school work. As time went on I learned to handle things more proper and got into a solid routine. My routine would be going to class then taking a pre practice nap. After that I’d practice then go to study hall and bang out as much home work as possible. Once study hall ended I would go back to my room and continue to work. Truthfully though, there would be weeks where I wouldn’t have to follow this exact routine. No practice Mondays is when I would take care of most of my work. With all that time on my hand and not having to worry about a meeting or making it to practice on time I found that I was able to accomplish a lot more. After establishing this solid routine I started to find college to go a lot more smoothly so I highly suggest students to get a good routine in place it helps out a lot, definitely if you’re a college athlete.

                To conclude this semester has been quite the eye opener it made me realize what I have gotten myself into entering college. If you don’t get what I mean by this I mean that college is very difficult and it is not all about partying and having a good time it’s about growing up and where you plan to be in the future. Both of those two things are a choice though you can screw off and waste your money or your parents money on partying and screwing off or you can take college in a more serious manner and possibly someday find yourself making a lot of money if you dedicate yourself and put in the work to get you there, but at the end of the day it’s all about how well you managed your time and that is biggest thing I have learned this first semester.