Author: chocolates

Why Is This Place So Different?

My expectations for college were based on my high school teacher. She used to tell us a lot of stories about how college used to be when she was a student. I really thought everything here at UWGB was going to be different from what I was told. She used to tell us that in college there weren’t any small classes, so I thought every class was going to be as big as she described. She also used to tell us that teachers don’t have time to help students when they are struggling with something. and when class finishes students are on their own. I was very confused because when I came to college I was expecting to have all my classes in a bigger room. On my first day of school, I thought I was in the wrong class because of how small it was. I even asked a teacher if she could help me if I was struggling with anything, and she said yes. 

The teachers are also different because high school teachers didn’t really care. The only thing that mattered to them was getting their job done, coming to school and sitting on a chair for 8 hours, and going back home. In college, teachers actually care about their job and student education. They make sure you do well in their classes and for anything that you are struggling with, they make sure they help you if they can. In high school, the teachers could go a month without having students do any homework however in college I have to do assignments every week I knew college was going to have more pressure than high school, such as doing almost everything on your own but it is way more than what I expected to be. 

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                                         Why Is Everything Out of Order?

I’m having a hard time managing my time. I tried creating a block of time that can help me stay on track with my homework. My block of time should have me doing homework at this certain time, but then, there is somet

hing that always comes up in between what I have on my schedule. It’s like I always find an excuse to not do what I have on my schedule and do it later. I stay up just thinking about how I can make my day go smoothly but it never works. This is making it hard for me to focus on things that are important. I feel like everything is out of order in my life right now. But it is just the beginning of this new journey, so it will take time for me to feel comfortable.

Not only that I’m having a hard time managing my time, but everything in college is tough right now too. I say this because my high school didn’t prepare me for all of this. Maybe it is because I am new to it but it is different than what I was being told in high school. The classes are not really that bad; some of them are going well right now but I am not good at math; so that class is giving me a hard time. Math is a required course that I have to take for five weeks and it is the only class that I’m feeling like I am way behind in no matter how hard I try. Every time that I feel I’m doing badly in a certain class I make sure that I talk to the professor and let him or her know what I am struggling with and ask what I can do to improve my learning.

Adulthood is Not Easy

I grew up in a big family. My family always made sure that I was doing well in everything that I had going on around me. Adulthood is not easy at all; when I got into college everything changed. It is like I am a single parent who is not taking care of anybody but himself. Everything is way different now. I have to manage my own time because I don’t have my mother here with me who usually was the one telling me I have to go to class or clean my room. I have to do everything on my own with no help. I eat on my own time, know when to go out, know when not to go out, and sleep at the time that I want too. but if I don’t manage my sleeping schedule there will be a consequence, where I can lose sleep and lose focus. So I have to take care of myself making sure everything around me is organized.

 

I also have to make the right decision which is new to me. When I was in high school most of the time after we got off school I used to go hang out with my friends. For example, I went to most of the basketball and soccer games even if I had homework. But college changed everything; sometimes I can’t even get out of my room because I have important things to do, also I used to be so addicted to the phone that my ESL teacher had to take it away from me during school hours because she saw my screen time and how long I was on my phone. now I am barely on my phone I make sure that I have a time limit on it. and only my family and people I’m close with can call me.