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Advice for incoming freshmen12/16/2023 I went to meetings and contributed a little, but I certainly was not putting in 100%. I had spent the majority of the project in the back seat, watching my group struggle. In my fourth year of college, I was in a group project working for a client from the Fitchburg Art Museum to create a catalog for one of their seasonal exhibits. Stepping out of your comfort zone will teach you a lot more than sitting in a back seat watching others succeed: Step up and take charge of your education, whether it’s raising your hand more in class or taking on more responsibility in a group project. They are a valuable resource, and they can help you get where you want to go. You can look up your academic advisor in iConnect or through the academic advising office. Your advisor has the answer to a lot of your questions. It’s basically a big study guide and has all of your spoiler-alerts for the whole semester. Not only will you feel more comfortable in class, and maybe make some new friends, but if you’re ever absent, you have a lifeline to catch you up on what you missed or share notes. Every time you make a mistake, you’re one mistake closer to reaching that goal that really isn’t light-years away. This way, at least you won’t screw up on the same things I did, and you’ll screw up in your own way. There are probably 15,000 lessons I learned about college outside of class, but here’s a list of 15 things I learned the hard way so that you’ll be ready to face these particular struggles. However, looking back at my college years about to graduate with my bachelor’s degree, I can also promise you that important lessons come from screwing up. You’ll be working towards a goal that may feel light-years away, and I’m betting you don’t want to screw up. Enjoy it, because I promise you it goes by quicker than you could ever imagine.Starting college is a big step into your future. Netflix, twitter, snapchat, will always be there but the four years you have within the walls of the high school you’re in are something you will never get back. Be involved, I swear to you it is worth it. Post as many selfies on instagram as you want to. Take pictures of everything you think is beautiful. Spend a lot of money on your prom dresses, it only happens once, and don’t sell them neither, sure money is nice, but the memories along with it are nicer. Experience life in ways you wouldn’t normally. Join clubs, be involved, go watch sports, go to cookout after the big game because your team just won and you want to celebrate with the whole school, go to parties, make mistakes, and learn from them, hangout with your friends on school nights, get ice cream from McDonald’s at 3 A.M just because you want to even though you know you have school in five hours. Make friends with people you wouldn’t otherwise make friends with, you would be amazed by what you learn from them. Do not sign up for classes based on what your friends are signing up for, sign up for what you need to take, then sign up for what you want to take, if you happen to want the same thing as your friends, great, if not then oh well, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to see them throughout the day otherwise. Take classes you are interested in learning more about. Teachers WILL change your life, if you let them, that’s what they are there for. You only get these four years, one time, do not waste them away chasing after stupid boys or heartless girls. Relationships are hard, and unless you actually, truly believe you will marry the person you are with, they’re not worth it, I promise. If they change and you notice they are bettering themselves, even if it takes time for them to, do not stop being friends with them, be there for them as they grow. Your friends will change, and so will you, that’s how life works. If you worry and upset yourself over the fact that your friends may be smarter than you, do not stress yourself out trying to bring yourself to the level that they are on, go at your own pace, it’s fine, you don’t need to take 3 AP classes a year if you know that you cannot handle 3 AP classes a year. Study, study, study… do not think that staying after school to get extra help in a class you are struggling in isn’t “cool”, because honestly, as long as you’re passing the class, what does it matter if you’re doing what’s cool or not, because it helps you more than you want to admit it does. For starters, EVERY year matters, freshman year counts as much as sophomore year, sophomore year counts as much as junior year, junior year counts as much as senior year, and yes, senior year definitely does still matter. As a senior who is graduating in a very short amount of time, I have gathered up a strong four years of advice to get you through, or hopefully help you get through, the crazy world that is high school.
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