Author: Jacob Hughes

Juggling Life

 

 

 

 

I have a few academic stressors and personal stressors that affect how I go about life. The biggest thing for me is time management between class and work. I struggle with time management as I work 25-30 hours a week and I’m in the process of starting my own automotive detailing company. There’s never enough time in a day to truly get all of my daily goals done. I find that I have one class that really gets my brain working and takes a lot of time to make sure that I fully understand it fully, that would be my business ethics philosophy 227 class because the workload is very heavy with lots of reading and videos. I do not understand philosophy well. Philosophy is one of those topics where you either love talking about it or it’s something that you don’t enjoy at all and for me, I do not enjoy it. I find that most of the time this is the one class that I try to sit down and get the assignment done early in the week to have it off my to do list. Another stressor for me is that I am pushing my limits not only in classes but at work too. I am working as many hours as possible while still juggling classes. I have a goal to graduate in the fall term of 2026 and so for me this means many of my semesters are 15 credits in order to make this happen for me within the time frame that I want which means I have lots of late nights at home doing assignments. 

Different

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Different

Returning as an adult student has had many pros and cons. It has also been very different, and I’ve had to make many adjustments now that I am a full-time student and part time employee and not full-time employee and part time student. Some of the pros for me returning as a full-time student is that I have a very good understanding as to what I want to do with my future. With this I knew what I wanted my major and minor to be which were business administration and marketing. Time management is something that I’ve always struggled with so returning I’ve been able to find what works for me. I have the time and experience of living on my own and so I can work and take classes year-round to finish my program faster.

Although I have run into some issues as a returning student. I have much higher bills in comparison to many of my classmates as I did finance a vehicle while working full time. That falls right in line with I have to work a lot more which leads to many late nights and early mornings. I’ve also found that I’m having a hard time relating with people that I meet in some respects because I am not a traditional student. I also took 3 years off before returning to school and now I feel a little behind compared to many of my peers I have spent lots of time in the workforce right out of high school and I don’t exactly have the same goals or desires as some of my classmates I currently work about 30 hours a week which consist of morning and late evening shifts. I also have a hard time living on campus in a shared apartment with roommates before returning to school. I had my own apartment to myself back at home and I’m not entirely used to living and sharing rooms with other people and having a shared bathroom between many people is something that is something that is very different and has been quite the change for me.  I am also a little weary of making too much noise or doing something that might disturb someone else if they are trying to focus and do something that is important to them. I also feel a little on edge about things even though we already have a set line of rules and expectations with each other and in reality, I don’t have anything to worry about.