I would consider myself a student, brother, and a helpful, funny friend who has a passion for sports and uses that to help drive for success. I always want to do well at whatever I am dealing with, my job, playing sports, schoolwork, and I would say my love for sports (especially playing basketball, and just watching football) has kept me going. I never give up and even if everything looks terrible, I will keep pushing and at least try to finish the best I can which is similar to the mentality of many athletes who play sports.
My top 3 concerns about freshman year is pretty much similar to everyone else. My main priority is to not let “senioritis” catch up to me coming from high school and to maintain a high GPA as it is very important especially for the freshman year because you hear everyone else saying it only gets harder. I understand that there will be more work, less time, there will be fewer reminders because everything is on the syllabus…basically telling me to “step up my game” (in sports terms) from high school. Another concern I have is trying to make new friends. Many of my friends are out of the city for college, and some of the remaining few in the city are already thinking/planning to transfer after this semester. Basically, I’m the only one who doesn’t plan on transferring anytime soon but I look forward to this as a challenge. This will be extremely difficult given the fact that many students’ schedules are different than another that it makes it even harder to catch up or socialize with others. Also since I have work, that limits most of my time to even hang out with them after my classes end. Lastly, another concern I have is basically dealing with the work overload that I have in store for me. I often over think about situations which makes me worried and it doesn’t help at all. I’m already thinking about the future papers, projects and speeches that I will be doing, what classes I am going to take next semester and how that is going to affect my work schedule. Not to mention, trying to maintain a social life (friends, playing basketball, clubs, etc) has also been in my thought.
I think the general environment of being in college, let alone, a highly populated one will definitely differ from my high school experience which had only about 600 students. I will definitely be able to meet more people, make new friends and hopefully improve my communication with others.
I hope the first year of college will help me become more independent, to not over think about every situation, and to become more social as I am not used to a very populated school environment. In addition, I hope to manage my time better so I do not have to worry as much when dealing with school work, my job as well as social life.
