Working Hard To Enroll In College

Throughout my high school days I had always seen myself as the girl that would go into college as soon as I graduated. That was how I was raised to think that right as you graduate the only proper thing to do is to enroll in college and spent the next four years of my life working hard to start my life. Sounds enticing right?. As my young nieve self I didn’t know any better, and simply listened to the words of my father “Work hard now so you don’t have to later”. With those words doing laps in my mind I just knew that I would start in college as soon as possible. However; as time progressed and graduation was right around the corner reality hit me like a ton of bricks. After losing my mother things got real hard in the Eix household. …show more content…
After the realization that my goals were not going to be met I did what I had to do to help my still struggling family get a job. Although; I had a job at our local pizza joint all throughout high school it was time to move on to one with more opportunity, so this three years of cook experience I proceeded to my current job as a chief at a local five star restaurant. With this job came a substantial pay raise one of which aloud me to enroll here at Columbia Southern …show more content…
With all of the changes in my life in such a short time from being culture shocked move all the way a crossed the country to the stresses of helping run a family. I am ecstatic the my academic advisor recommended this class for me. I know now from doing the Unit two reading assessment that there are many more affective way for coping with stress which I have struggled with to the extreme from being sore and sick from having a stomach ulcer. I plan to implement many of the steps that was suggested in Keys to Learning Strategies for Success. Being as busy as I am I never really made a point to put sleep into my schedule. However know knowing that the more sleep that you give yourself the more relaxed your mind will be, and will be able to manage further stress, and that my school work will improve ( Carter, Bishop, Kravits, & Drexler 2013 pg.88). I have always tried to make to-do list to help coop with a busy schedule, however; was never really able to follow through with it. Thanks to this class I finally have a real name for my laziness, procrastination. Listed in our textbook “People procrastinate for various reasons [from] perfectionism, fear of limitations, being unsure of the next step, [to] facing an overwhelming task” (Carter, Bishop, Kravits, & Drexler 2013