There is no argument that the life of the college student can be full of stress and empty of free-time. A cell-phone conversation in the hallway still echoes in my ears, “A presentation, a ten page paper, a cumulative essay question exam, worth 542 percent of my grade. It’s all due in a week. But maybe I can still make it to Cousin Billy-Bob’s birthday bash, Mom, as long as I’m not dead from exhaustion.”
Now, while that may have been an exaggeration, anyone who has attended college can identify with that overstressed, eye-rubbing, hair-pulling anxiety over a complete lack of time. However, there is hope.
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High school. It’s a world away from middle school, which now seems like a small puddle compared to the vast ocean of new faces, teachers, and experiences. Freshman year can be the most difficult part of a person’s high school career, but hopefully these insights will help make your transition easier.
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Both are long, both are boring, but one is required. Most schools will take either, and nowhere requires both. So which one? It is a good idea to take both once, find a score comparison chart, and retake the one which you received the higher score. However, it is helpful to understand more about the tests before going into them.
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Since we were old enough to answer the question, people have been asking us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” When we were three we were asked because our answers were cute. In middle school, it was so we could start exploring our interests. But now, it is a serious question. And the funny thing is, the question was easiest to answer when we were three. Maybe that’s because the only careers that were known to us were doctor, teacher, president, and police man.
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Many high school students see volunteer hours as a requirement for National Honor Society or Key Club, or a way to show colleges how great they are. But volunteering means so much more than that. It can be something that you truly look forward to doing, and something that really changes your perspective on the world. Volunteering not only helps others, but it can help you to grow as well.
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Receiving college mail and emails may be a bit thrilling at first because they are an indicator that you are beginning the process of going to college. However, once I had a towering pile of unread letters and emails, college mail went from thrilling to obnoxious.
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I got goosebumps when I read the last line of the NPR story “For Nervous Seniors, Some Pre-Graduation Advice.” After spilling how being “overlooked” and “underestimated” is just “a part of life,” Professor Mitchell Zuckoff closes his speech to his, and the world’s, graduating students with some words of encouragement as they prepare to take fresh steps into the world of work:
Last, I tell [my students] to keep in touch, because I know how good they are, and how much the world needs them, even if no one knows it yet.
And then, I felt resentment.
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In high school, our teachers assigned us books to read for class. Unless you were lucky, most of the books were probably not ones you were interested in and your teachers forced you to memorize silly trivia. This may have made reading seem like a tedious task, but as a college student, you can make reading fun again.
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College is an important time in finding out who you are. As a child and teen, it was too easy to define yourself by who your friends were, or who your parents wanted you to be, or by what was cool. Even adults identify themselves too often by their career, race, or wealth.
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Finally! Exams are over and for the next few weeks, thoughts of studying and going to class are long gone from the minds of college students. After putting in another semester worth of hard work, winter vacation is just what the doctor ordered. This time should be taken to relax your brain and body, but there is a fine line between relaxation and laziness.
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