The first semester of college brings many changes to a student’s life. This was true for my experience here at UW Green Bay. One hurdle I had to face was beginning a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend. I was living in a home situation that was not ideal before going to college. This meant that although I had to leave my boyfriend behind, I was able to walk into my own freedom by starting university. It did make a huge hurdle to jump having to find the balance of everything that came with college. Homework, classes, and activities were all things to balance in my schedule on top of figuring out time to talk to my boyfriend. Though it was difficult, we both have agreed that it has allowed us to grow on our own while still being able to love and grow together.
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Another challenge I had to face going through my first semester of college was building better time management skills. My class schedule was set up in a way that I had all my classes in two days. This meant that on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I went from 8 am to 8:30 pm with five classes. My original plan was just to make it through those days getting to each class and then do all my schoolwork on the days I was free. At the time it seemed like a great plan but it did not end up that way. On the days where I had no class to get up for I would end up spending most of my day being lazy. Because I had the whole day free I would procrastinate and tell myself I would do it later in the day. I have made it over the hurdle of these challenges now with this semester setting up a better schedule for myself, spreading my classes between multiple days, and giving myself motivation to get up and be productive with all my days.