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How to Survive College Life |
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Written by roys
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
College is a very special time in your life. If you let it, college will open up a whole new world that you never imaged. You will experience a unique kind of intellectual excitement and camaraderie that you never had before and will never have again once you enter the "real world". Please take the time to fully enjoy your college life - it only lasts a few short years. You have the rest of your life to work - do not let outside work or a complicated life interfere with the thrill of the college experience.
I know that college life is so difficult part of young person's life. I know, I had been there. It took me six years ( summers classes included ) to earn my two undergraduate degrees; three years ( masteral thesis included ) to get my masters diploma; another four years to earn my Ph.D.( one year for doctoral dissertation ). To top that, I taught college for twenty years. I saw and experienced both sides: As a college student and as a college teacher. I saw and experienced college life is not a walk in the park. It is not a path strewn with roses. College life is not always days of wine and daffodils but it demands hard work and a lot of sacrifice. Like jungle survival, it's survival of the fittest!
There are no hard and fast rules to settling in to college life but you do need to give it a chance. If you enter into it with a negative outlook and rush back home every chance you get then you will find it harder adjusting to college life. It is also true that some of the best parts of college life happen at weekends so you don’t want to miss out on these opportunities. College life can be so exciting that you may forget the important things like getting enough sleep. You are going to want to go out and enjoy yourself but it is important that you do catch up on your rest at regular intervals so that you can concentrate on your studies occasionally!
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Last Updated ( Friday, 25 August 2006 )
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