Be A Survivor

Your first year of college is all about surviving. You have to learn new skills, meet new people and be on your own for the first time in your life. That first year is very reminiscent of the show Survivor that you have all probably seen on tv. There are many aspects of the year that remind me of it. These would be the challenges and in the end, the money. This article will talk about those three aspects and how you can be the survivor on your floor.

The first thing you are going to have to overcome is the challenges. There can be many aspects of a challenge such as the preparation, mentally and physically as well as the anticipation beforehand. In college, this will come in many forms. Many students go in to college never having done laundry in their life and even though it’s such a small task, it’s one you have to know about before you walk in to the laundry station of your college. The first thing you should do to prepare for this is to read up online about how to do your laundry and how to organize it. You don’t want to be putting bleach into a load of all black clothes because you’ll soon realize how your clothes will not turn out right. So, there comes the preparation factor. Next is actually going through with the challenge. This may seem easy but I’ve seen many kids fail at their first time washing clothes. And since you only come to college with a limited amount in the first place, ruining your first load of laundry can be a huge mistake. That’s one of the more simple tasks. A bigger challenge is writing your first 20 page paper. In high school, the most students usually write is 5 pages, maybe 10 if it’s a bigger project. So when you first get assigned that big paper, it can seem like an overload. The good thing is all you have to do is prepare the same way you did with the laundry. Look up tips before hand on writing a paper, like writing out all of your topics on flashcards and organizing them on a big piece of paper with glue in the order you’ll write them. That way you can visually map out how you are going to write the project.

If you can make it through the minor and major challenges of college, you will be better prepared for when you actually get to graduate and make it into the real world. Applying the daily grind to your college life can better get you in the habit for taking on the real world and real deadlines you will one day face. Finding the right attitude for walking into class everyday can help reward you in the end when you walk out of class and realize you remember almost everything that you talked about during the discussion that day. It’s little challenges like that, that will help you get through college like it’s a piece of cake.