There has been plenty factors holding me back. I try to minimize the amount of work I do and maximize my grades. This means cutting down on studying and doing the least work as possible. This is how my mind set is and thats how I personally work. I never really believed doing well in school or getting good grades would lead to a successful life in the future. This in turn leads to my lack of motivation in college.
I think one of the main hindrances that is stopping me from doing well in school is time. I dont want to dedicate time on things that really dont have any meaning to me, especially homework or studying. Time is such an important factor because balancing out social activities and work is really a struggle for me. During my senior year of high school, I had such a short schedule and almost no work. Everything was just so simple and calm. Now that I’m in college, everything has just reversed. The work never seems to end and the stress never stops. Adjusting to this drastic change of environments has proven to be difficult and is hindering me from working my best. Time management is definitely something I must improve on in order for me to assimilate in to the college life.
Less sleep is also a great hinderance to me. Sleep is something that you cant make up. It is really just essential to for a college student since it is hard to work productively without it. I almost always sleep late because of a variety of things such as facebook, aim, or just working really late. This has definitely affected my performance in school because some of my professors are extremely boring. Their boring lectures combined with my drowsiness results to sleeping in class. I simply cant stay awake things are just so incredibly boring or unrelated to real life. Even though I dont pay attention in class much, I still do fairly well in exams or graded papers. Unfortunately my lack of sleep and attention span has probably hindered me from doing my best.
Every morning I wake up tired and sometimes I leave for school late. This is a bad habit since when I’m late for some of my classes, I usually dont understand what is going when I get there. For example calculus is difficult but gets even more difficult when I walk in late since I have no idea what happened before. My communications class doesnt mark people present if a person is late more than fifteen minutes so it becomes problematic if I come in late to that class. My occasional lateness is probably affecting my grades slightly and if I could wake up earlier, lateness wouldnt be much of a problem. Waking up early and delays in the train have been holding me back.
Procrastinating is a serious problem for me. Because of it, I usually end up doing my assignments right before its due. For example, I probably should of done this extra credit assignment a few days ago but now I’m doing it the day before its due. Laziness also shares the blame for doing my assignments so late. I just simply dont want to do any of my assignments because I lack the motivation to do so. My laziness usually causes me to the the least amount of work to get a decent grade. I never want to go that “extra mile” because of it. Going that “extra mile” may earn me a higher grade but I dont care for it. I simply want to pass and move on. this kind of mindset has hindered me from exceeding in my college work and settling for a more mediocre grade.
All of these characteristics have definitely stopped me from doing my best in college. Time management, lack of sleep, lateness, motivation, laziness are all problems I must endure for now. Once I find a solution to these obstacles, I will definitely become a more higher performing student. All of these hindrances are just part of adjusting to college life and I’m sure I will be able to deal with them in time.
