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Short tips to help you as a college student

Help tips and piece of advice from a 21 year old college gal.

Carley Jo Younger
Jun 12, 2019
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So to start off, this is my first ever blog I've ever written or posted so bear with me. I never thought even 2 days ago that I would have been doing this. I'm not even sure if I'm doing this right, or if there's even a "right" way to write one of these.

Basically, I've learned a lot of things in the past 2 years, and I felt like they were necessary to share. Most of the blog is in relation to family, relationships, friends, and school. I'm a senior in college, so maybe this should be an article titled "Things I wish would've known 4 years ago". But like I said, this is my first time, so I'm still learning.

Let go ahead and start this shindig.

1. Love yourself before you try to love someone else.

This is probably one of the most important pieces of advice I could give anyone. I just realized this not too long ago. I've been in a rocky relationship for a year and a half, and this is one of the most difficult struggles in our relationship. Not loving yourself while in a relationship leads to self insecurities and insecurities in your relationship and with your partner. Love to love everything about yourself. Your body, your personality, your goals, your ambitions, your flaws, and everything else about you. You need to love yourself so much, so when you meet someone you can have enough of your love to share.

2. Learn how to budget your money efficiently.

I wasn't even thinking about financial struggles today until I started writing this. I will go ahead and tell you that if you can budget your money while your young, YOU HAVE IT SET. I'm horrible at saving. Actually, I'm so bad at saving money that my savings account was closed so maybe I'm not the right person to be preaching to the crowd since I can't even walk the walk. Being in college and being broke has to be one of the most stressful things. Scrambling money for rent, groceries, gas, books, etc. It freaking sucks. The one helpful tip I can give you is sit down and write down things you HAVE TO HAVE, and estimate about how much money it'll cost per week or month and compare it to your estimated monthly or weekly income. Adjust your budget from there.

3. Don't lay in bed all day.

Now, I'm not saying don't have one or two lazy days out of the week to sit in your bed and watch Netflix and eat junk food. We've all been there and I'm totally here for it. One thing I have learned since having my own apartment is that the days I lay in bed all day, are the days when I feel most depressed. So to keep my mind off stressful things, I go to the library and catch up on homework, go with my roommate to the dog park, clean and organize my room, or just go and drive around. I'm telling you the simple things like doing this will make you feel better about yourself and you might not even realize it.

4. Take a couple of hours of the week for "me time".

A couple of weeks ago my Nana gave me this advice. She said, "When you go back to school you need to go to a park, or somewhere you like being outside. Put your headphones in, listen to your favorite songs, and just sit there and take time for yourself". So I don't usually just sit in one place and listen to music, but what I do do is put on Miley Cyrus's new album on full blast in my car and roll all the windows down and just drive. This is the most therapeutic thing I can tell anyone to do. Don't think about the bad things that you're facing right now or that you will be facing in the future. Just get in your car. Pull up your favorite album on Spotify. And just drive. I can guarantee you won't regret it. (I don't drive too far because I'm not tryna waste a whole tank of gas on "me time")

So that's pretty much it for this blog. Hopefully, these 4 very short tips or pieces of advice can help someone or something like that! I hope to be back on soon and write a little more. P.S. 5. IF YA FEEL DOWN JUST WRITE A LITTLE BIT AND YOU WILL FEEL RELIEVED. Doesn't even matter what you're writing about, just write.
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