These Are The Common Mistakes Made By College Students
Starting to study way too late for one.
Oh how wonderful it is to drink and play, to party and socialize, and to wait to study until the last day!
And oh how awful is the realization of how little one did before the deadline stands on your doorstep.
Most students know that they should study earlier but they never build the discipline to actually do so.
They do not study when they should because it doesn’t feel good and push it off, often still making it through the exam or paper in an okay fashion, thereby getting rewarded for procrastinating, and they end up procrastinating more as a result.
Slowly but surely their grades decline and they build a horrible work ethic as well as an addiction to instant gratification.
Yet it would only take 30 minutes of studying a day to counteract all of that.
Not Realizing Their Teachers Are There To HELP Them.
The whole point in becoming a teacher is to help.
Teachers decided on their job because they wanted to help, teach and impart information and lessons to a younger generation!
It’s their job and was their choice to be their for you from the beginning!
Of course not every teacher is like this, but if you go to the teacher with an honest and good intent a vast majority will help you because that is what they love to do!
I’ve encountered it so often that the professors I disliked, when going up to them, still did their duty and helped in the best way they could, which actually made me respect them a lot more.
Use this resource!
Go to their office hours, email them any questions you may have and do not be afraid to talk to them about any aid you may need.
It’s better asking once too often than not asking and it having a horrible effect on your future.
But, if I can give you one piece of advice: Think about what you will ask first and what you need help with. Try to solve it first, but if you cannot find the answer, go to your teacher.
Doing What is Easy, Not What is Good For Their Future.
Most students pick easy classes that do not require a lot of work or that have extremely nice professors that do not challenge them.
While this is nice to have it won’t teach you anything.
The best classes are those that challenge you!
Find the teachers that challenge you, the classes that make you go above and beyond and do what you can for your future now; that is why you are here!
I know it’s easy to take the free classes, to go for the nicest professors and spend time after class just partying, but it does come at a cost; or rather, taking the challenges will benefit your future!
Of course it’s up to you in the end how much you want to do, but I have met more people that regretted the amount of partying they did than people that regretted working hard during their college years for their future.
In fact, most of the amazing stories about college center around having had a challenging class or a challenging professor that pushed them to greater heights.
Thinking This Path Is The Only Path.
College students honestly do not know any better.
Most of them have never held a real job, have not paid real bills and have never had a real relationship.
They all still transition between being a teenager and being an adult and because of that they still believe that college is their only choice and their only path.
But it’s not that serious!
There are millions of paths outside of college that one can take to still live a happy life! College is not everything!
You chose to take this path in your life but it is your life in the end!
If the path does not fulfill you, if you think it is wrong to pursue it, then change it!
You have time and you have options. Do not get stuck on the idea that what happens in college will determine and limit the rest of your life.
Originally published at http://quora.com.
