Final Thoughts as a First Year College Student

There are only about two more weeks left for the semester to be completely over. My first year in college went by completely fast! There are some people out there who make college sound like it is a nightmare and it is so stressful. Yes, there are times when college could get a bit stressful all due to exams and finals, but overall college is not all that bad. When people from back home or just in general ask me what college is like and if it is difficult. My reply is usually, “no college is not hard all you have to do is be on top of your work”. Being one out of five siblings, and actually completing one full year at a CSU actually motivates me to graduate, and if I continue to keep pushing through I will be the first in my entire family to graduate with a bachelor's. I am not gonna lie there have been multiple times throughout the year where I thought about dropping out of school. I think most people coming into their first year of college have those doubts if whether or not they should actually be here. I always kept telling myself to just finish the year and then I will see what will happen, and as I look back at it now I just feel like it was just the stress talking at the time. But like I said before college is not all that bad, you just have moments where you want to give up, but you shouldn’t, and you should just keep moving forward.

Packing Up

Most of my weekends I have spent getting essays and presentations done, and I feel like finally for one weekend I can finally just step back and breathe for a bit. Since I have completed my presentations and the majority of my essays, all I have to do is fix up a few essays and do a couple of finals and it is all over. The only thing that I don’t like about the semester being over in a few weeks is that I will have to pack up all my stuff again and move out of the dorms. I feel like when I first moved in I did not have much stuff, but as time went on I slowly started bringing more stuff and now I have to pack it all up. I am not trying to think about it as much, but as I go home next week I am going to try and take a few things back with me, like stuff that I don’t need to use for the remaining weeks that are left. I think it is better that if you live in the dorms to slowly start taking things back home, if it is possible just so that  it will not be as much of a hassle trying to pack everything up at once and having housing equipment be checked out and all being used at the same time. So, I think that is my goal for this weekend, since I only have a few essays to tweak and clean up. I am going to try and sort out the things that I am going to be taking home with me and start storing some of my stuff away.