Dear College Student,

I know this semester may not have gone as you imagined. It may have been harder than you originally thought. You may have been distracted by other obligations or commitments. You may have bombed that first exam and have thought it was over ever since. Whatever the case is let me tell you it is not over yet.

As we embark on the last month of this semester, it will get overwhelming. Professors decide to schedule the last exam, assignments, and group project, and even worse finals are shortly after that. However, rather than throwing in the towel these last few weeks realize there is a lot of fight left in you yet.

Regardless of the situation or circumstance you are in right now, you can make it out of this semester. You are capable of greatness. You are capable of anything you set your mind to. Instead of engaging in negative self talk and continuing to put yourself down, change your self-talk and practice positive affirmations. Affirm your capabilities. As time progresses your positive affirmations will affirm your actions. On the other hand, your negative self-talk habits will do nothing good for you.

Before you give up and mark that class as a loss, get up, brush yourself off, and get back to the drawing board. Focus on these last few weeks and avoid those distractions, which have inhibited your growth during the year. It is easy to compare “your fun” to those friends on Snapchat and Instagram, but it is okay your fun will come.

If there is a will there is most definitely a way! Please do not give up yet! I believe in you! Your friends believe in you! Your family believes in you too! Now it is time for you to believe in yourself too because you can achieve excellence!

I wish you the best on this semester, all semesters to come, and all your future endeavors! Do not give up on yourself!!!

A Fellow College Student,

Amanda Shinn