Personal Narrative: What I Learned In College

College has a lot of new found freedoms that you never experience before you get here. Most of the new freshman here are for the first time on their own without their parents watching over them and their every move. This means managing your time effectively, eating healthy, staying active, being involved in extracurricular activities such as clubs, balancing school work, and still finding time to do social things in order to stay sane. Many students rise to the challenge quickly and have almost no problems at all while other kids crumble under the pressure and completely collapse. I myself am dealing with all of these freedoms and I am learning to juggle them all at once. I believe I am coping with these freedoms somewhat effectively but I …show more content…
I was quickly awakened by the first grade a received on a writing assignment for U.S. History, a 70. This shocked me and I have started to ditch my old habits in order to adopt new ones that work much better. In time I know that my efforts will reflect in my grades. I have dug myself a slight ditch that I need to begin to dig myself out of but there is plenty of time to do that. To get slightly off topic I feel like the university should spend more time educating students on the importance of spending time outside of class. I know I would have benefited more if the university made an initiative to scare the students a little bit. During orientation it was only briefly mentioned that we will need to put in more effort and then nothing else was said. This point went in one ear and out the other of every kid in the room. To move towards a different challenge, coming into college my biggest fear was actually eating unhealthy. I am actually terrified of putting on weight. I know it may sound stupid or out of the norm for a guy to be legitimately concerned with his weight but I am. I am so afraid of even putting on even a single