My Experience In College Students, Being A College Student

For first year students coming straight from high school, college life can either be very exciting or overwhelming depending on how well one prepares for it. Some have the notion that college is fun and is all about partying, while some believe that it is an environment in which they can achieve the ultimate freedom thus escape the stringent rules made by their parents at home. Others look forward to experiencing a different learning environment while being exposed to different cultures and sharing different academic knowledge. Successful assimilation into college life is determined by the student’s capability to transform into the new role of a college student. Numerous students face challenges they have never experienced before which can

How your lifestyle in college is and how it will change when you finish, get your degree and are finally set free into the working world. There are many similarities between the two but there are many vast differences that you will come to find out. A lot of things will happen when your life transfers from the college lifestyle to the responsible job holder college was molding you into.

Stress is a main aspect of the human condition, because everyone goes through a daily amount of stress, whether the problems come from school, family, even physical activities. The first time I felt a load of stress was earlier this year in fact, on a Thursday in September. I had many assignments due that day, and had a football game for band later as well. There was a reading check for “WHAP”, and the second I had seen the vocab and multiple choice questions my stomach started churning. There was sweat running down my face.... The notes I had took were horrendous, the thought of my French IP Practices the next period did not help either. Even though the day had finished and I did not have to stress over school anymore,

Like most college students, I could not run away from stress and I was especially stressed out this week. As it is the first week of a new quarter, I was still trying to get used to my new schedule and classes. Some of the classes I am taking seem to be challenging and it is worrying me. I am also in the honors program and I am very anxious as the deadline to submit my research proposal is coming soon. In Why Don’t Zebras Get Ulcers, the author wrote that the perception of things worsening can cause a person to be hypertensive. Hence, I think my stressors revolve mostly around the fact that I believe that the quarter will get busier and things will only get worse.

So far in my high school career I have had to manage my core classes that I take at school and online classes that I take through Sauk Valley Community College. Taking all of these classes at the same time has been stressful, but I am able to manage my stress through skills such as prioritizing and time management. Prioritizing helps me remind myself what is most important and make sure that I am making the most use of the time I have. When I use time management skills, I make sure that I work on

College is a life changing experience for students. College is a new environment for most students and comes with lots of challenges. Things such as the increased difficulty of academic work and not being around the same social groups as a student was before college can make the transition very difficult. One of the best things a student can do to help with this transition is to live in a campus residence hall. Students should live in dorms because of the community that this creates. Students will gain many beneficial social interactions, will be able to better complete academic work, and will ease the adjustment to college life.

"Tomorrow is the first day of what I will become." I wrote this in my diary the night before my first day of college. I was anxious as I imagined the stereotypical college room: intellectual students, in-depth discussions about neat stuff, and of course, a casual professor sporting the tweed jacket with leather elbows. I was also ill as I foresaw myself drowning in a murky pool of reading assignments and finals, hearing a deep, depressing voice ask "What can you do with your life?" Since then, I've settled comfortably into the college "scene" and have treated myself to the myth that I'll hear my calling someday, and that my future will introduce itself to me with a hardy handshake. I can't completely rid my

I do not believe that I am a customer as a college student. I don't think that I'm a customer as a college student because I'm not paying for something that I enjoy. I'm not paying for a shirt, a car, or even a meal. I'm here to learn and even though I have to pay for my education, I don't think that I should be treated as someone who is here for a service. I don't think of myself as a customer because I want to be treated as a student, I need to feel as though this is a life choice and not a casual decision. If I’m treated as a customer, then the cliché " The customer is always right" would apply to me and I don't believe that that is beneficial for me at all. I want to be treated with respect, but I want someone to tell me when I'm wrong.

S- My strategy is too have an early shift at work that ends in the early afternoon so I have the rest of the afternoon and evening to complete the course work for each class.

Brianda Coleman Professor Dubbe ENF 15 September 2016 I know that college will be challenging for me because of transportation, time, and finances.I'm an older student and a single mother with an eight year old daughter and a hectic life. First of all transportation is a problem because I do not have my own car, nor do I have licensed yet.Counting on acquaintance for rides is difficult and the bus takes forever, never on time, and breaks down often.In addition, I seem to never have enough time to do what is needed of me.I wake up get my daughter ready for school, then I take a nap because it's so early.Then off to school I go.When my daughter returns, she need help with homework ,and at that time I give her a snack. Soon after I go to work where I stay until 8:00pm.

Although college is challenging, I am going to be successful by listening to advice from experts, by utilizing some effective strategies and tools, and by setting goals for myself, and taking advantage of the benefits of a college education.

Some of my topmost stressors I come across on a daily basis regardless of academic life or professional life are, waiting on grades to be announced, time constrictions and striving for excellence. I get very restless while waiting for my grades to be posted even though I know in the back of my mind that I have strived to do my best on the graded assignment. Due to this stressor, I experience burdensome emotional reaction while waiting on my grades. My next large stressor are time constrictions on all the tasks at hand. Even if I know I have a week to complete an assignment I will usually try to complete the task as soon as possible, even though I know I have a week to complete the task. This is due to self-gratification of completing the task

Whatever that may be, we don’t always have control over the situation. But, sometimes we forget that there is more to life than the overbearing number of hours we spend on school or work. We are too caught up in the stress of school that we are making ourselves mentally ill and forgetting the valuable time that we should cherish with folks (Holinka 301). I am not going to rant about how you should stay away from stress because we know that not all stress is controllable and there are psychological reasons to back it up. But then again, there are some situations of stress that can be controlled and we should do what we can to try to prevent stress due to the underlining health effects and the impact it has on our day to day lives. When I am talking about kinds of stress, I am specifically talking about the stress that is derived from school or work, making it hard to fit everything into our schedule. It makes you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything. This is stress that we can control if we want, so that we can enjoy the things that mean the most: spending time with family, creating new friendships, exploring cultures and different parts of the world, and discovering your inner self.

We have all dealt with varying amounts of stress throughout our lives. The methods we use to deal with the stress, and our belief of the effectiveness of those methods affects our psychological well-being. Although I have been stressed out many times over the past few years, I was most stressed out this past semester because I had lots of work to do. I knew coming into the semester that I probably signed up for more than I could handle, but there was nothing I could get myself to remove because I was interested in everything I signed up for. In retrospect, this semester was not as busy as I expected it to be, but there were a few weekends where I felt overwhelmed with all that I had to do. The coping strategies that I used this past semester and throughout my life are mental disengagement, active coping, focus on and venting emotions, and use of emotional social support.

As I graduated high school, I thought college would just be yet another four years of high school, and I was wrong. College opens many new doors in a young man or woman’s life. There are new responsibilities and pressures that you will have to deal with, and with more freedom these responsibilities and pressures can be difficult to handle. College has changed a great deal over the years and these changes, such as more freedoms, make college a much more challenging experience. You need to start preparing for college now by making yourself more responsible and having more self-control. Although you think college is merely partying with easy classes on the side, I have experienced pressures and work loads that make the experience challenging