Ever since I started college I have been doing okay in all of my classes. however I haven’t felt that I have been doing my best. Here are a few things that I think have been hindering me.
One big thing that I think has been hindering me from doing my best in college is all of the work I’ve had. Ever since I started college I have been trying to manage, although I do still have some trouble. Back when I was in high school the workload was much lighter. My entire senior year of high school I only had to write an essay every two months. Now in college it seems that I have to write one every week or two. This combined with all of the homework and the midterms I have been taking lately makes for nonstop work. It has been very hard trying to balance all of this work. even though I end up finishing all of the work, I feel like since I only have so much time to do it all I’m not able to do as good a job as I used to. I’m sure that as time goes by I will get used to the increased work load of college. However until that happens I think that the heavy work load is going to continue to impede me from doing my best in college.
Another issue that has been hindering me in college is the fact that I have always been kind of lazy. Even when I was in grade school my teachers would always tell my mo at parent teacher conference that while I was pretty smart I never “applied myself” which is pretty much code for lazy. I’ve never used to work any harder than I absolutely had. Good enough was always good enough for me. Even though I did not work exceptionally hard I would still get good grades. All throughout grade school and even into high school I would always get between a eighty and a ninety in all of my classes. College however has been a totally different experience for me. I have found myself having to study more just to get into the lower eighties. Part of this problem is that I only end up studying the night before because I am a chronic procrastinator. I have almost always put everything off until the last possible second. If I get a report due the fifth I wont usually start it until the third or fourth. This has always been one of the biggest if not the biggest things that hinder me in school. I have been trying to change this recently. I am actually writing this a week before it is due.
My difficulty with focusing is the last main thing that has been hindering me in college. One of the main reasons I was able to do well when I was in high school is that I already knew most of the material. It was easy for me to focus mainly because I already knew what I was being taught. In college however almost everything I am learning in my classes is new to me. With all of this new information coming at me all of the time it is hard for me to focus on the subject I have to. Another reason I was able to focus better in high school is that my high school schedule was much easier than my college schedule is. My last year of high school I would wake up at seven and by noon I was out of school. Nowadays I have to get up at six and I usually don’t get out of class until a quarter to four. The length of the college classes also took a toll on my ability to pay attention. Trying to pay attention to a professor talking for an hour and forty five minutes is a lot harder than it seems. I have been noticing however that in the last month or so staying focused in class has started to get a little easier.
Since I started college laziness, a heavier work load, and an inability to focus have been hindering me from doing my best. Some of these problems I have dealt with my entire life, while others only started affecting me after I started college. Over the last few weeks I have been trying to fix these problems and work harder. While I haven’t completely gotten rid of what impeding me I have started to focus more and get rid of my work load sooner.
