I’ve learned a lot this semester. Mainly, that college is not at all like high-school. Everyone always said in high-school that college would be a completely different experience, and they were right.
The biggest thing that I’ve had to develop this semester was my time management skill, and I’ve still got a lot of work to go with that. Things were a lot more organized in high-school; my parents would wake me up if I slept through my alarm, teachers would give constant reminders about work being due, midterms only happened once, during the middle of the term. Things made sense.
Now, everything is on you to get done, and I definitely have room for improvement on this front. I’ve found that it’s all too easy to sleep through that 8 am, to forget to do that homework, to not study as much as I should have. The training wheels were taken away real quick, and I struggled at first to keep riding. Even now, I still find it tough at times to keep everything in order, but am improving at it.
This first semester was almost like a trial run of sorts. Most of my classes I already took in high-school, and thus I have not had to struggle much with learning new material. However, when next semester rolls around, I will need to have improved even more with my time management skills. It’s only going to get harder as the semesters continue on, and if I am to succeed, I will have to hone these skills even more.