Slacking before College
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Slacking before College

College is the time to get ahead of your work.

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Slacking before College
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In high school, I was a bit of a slacker.No matter how hard I tried, I was still just an average student with average grades. I didn’t really study. As high school was too easy for me.When in my junior year things were slightly more difficult, however, I had some help from my peers. However, this is no way to be, especially when college was coming up.

So, in the summer before freshman year, I started studying during the day. I would get up early. Even if I stayed up late in the night time. And I would take notes and assessments based on open lectures. Mind you, this was all before any of my friends were awake. I would study whatever interested me. As someone who despises math, I even cracked out my old math work books and did several practice problems. As well as borrowing some of my sister’s college math textbooks and attempting to learn the mathematics involved in there. I told my mom about this and she even assigned me essays on random topics that had to be due every Saturday morning. I was learning and becoming extra productive. While my friends were at home sleeping and playing on their electronics.

Of course I would go out and enjoy myself. But that was after I had completed my “homework” and my actual chores. Eventually some of my friends found out and began to tease me for this. However we are in college together. And these people that teased me, are currently having a difficult time adjusting. Like they can do the work, but they absolutely can not handle work load. However, for me, I am handling the college transition pretty well. Heck, I am even in my school’s theatre club (and I am constantly running around in there). My friend’s that are having a difficult time adjusting would ask me help a lot. In fact one of my friends asked me to teach her how I get my work done so quickly and still manage to get a decent score. These people do not like studying, but I am trying my best to help them somewhat get into it and help them grow and learn.

Practicing adjusting to more work may seem tedious and annoying. It was rough for me the first week as well. But, it is worth it. As a freshman in college, my work load is not as nearly as much as what I dumped onto myself during that summer. But somehow it is bound to grow and become more as the school years continue. I have learned to manage my time properly, and I learned how to make it fun too.

Yes, to this day I still do take free auditable courses online . I do this in my free-time. Which is Fridays. When I do not have actual classes and I can stay home and finish my studies and then relax. So go ahead, if you feel as though you cannot handle a huge work load, practice in your free=time, giving yourself a bunch of homework and assessments. I did. And yeah, it helped a lot.

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