High School to College

High school and college are very different in not only way but in many ways. For starters a couple things that are pretty obvious like you are living on campus of the school (for most students), Mom and Dad aren’t here, and you are sharing almost everything with someone else and sometimes multiple people, and many more.

                Living on campus means that you are the boss of what happens in your day, for some people that is a good thing and for others it’s not. That means it’s your job to make sure that you are out of bed at 7 am, if you need an hour to get really for that 8 am class that you convinced yourself was a smart idea to take. You may have an awesome roommate or suitemate that has to be out of the door at the same time that will help you get that kick start to get there on time or even early. Or that could mean that you have to know how much sleep you have to have so you will not be a grumpy old man (or woman) in the morning.

                Mom and Dad are not there, some of us are jumping for joy at that thought. (I know I am!! (Sorry Mom!)) It’s not that we don’t love them, but independence is something that everyone has to learn so we are not living at home forever (which my Mom would love).  I am sure that for other it is harder for other being so far away (or just away from home).

                Sharing; for some that’s an easy thing but for others that’s the one thing that wasn’t something that was learned in kindergarten. Like they would rather cut off their right hand before they would willing share. Hey that’s cool, everyone is different. And I will agree that there is a line on what should be shared and what should not be shared! Like for me don’t touch my tea and we will be great friends. The thing that I have found to be most helpful when it came to sharing is just be straight forward with the people your living with. Because face it if you can not be straight forward or truthful with those people then the next year or semester is going to more difficult than it will need be. 

Mental Toughness

To me “mental toughness” is you pushing yourself to finish that last assignment even though you don’t feel like doing it after rewriting it for the seventeenth time that night. It’s the voice in the back of your mind that keeps you from getting up from your desk when you want nothing more than to be anywhere but there studying. If I didn't have mental toughness I wouldn't have made it to Texas Lutheran University. I’m dyslexic, so I need a lot of mental toughness to help me keep up with everyone else. For interstice this paper is going to make me twice as long to write in the correct way then it would take my roommate.  I have to have mental toughness to keep at it, so I can finish not only both posts but all of my other homework that I have. If it wasn't for mental toughness I think I would have thrown my computer out of the window multiple times in just this past night.

No, I don’t think that only athletes understand the importance of having strong mental toughness. Athletes are not the only people that have to have strong mental toughness, there are people that have never played a sport in their life. Those people have learned the importance in other ways, which has caused them to stay strong when they needed it the most.  I’m not saying that athletes don’t have great mental toughness, because they have to use their mental toughness when they are pushing their selves to the limit at a practice or during a game. Athletes and non-athletes both need high mental toughness for everything that they do. Everyone has different levels of mental toughness. Some people have very high mental toughness that helps them get though everything. And others have very low mental toughness that causes them to give up more quickly than the others. Mental toughness is something that can be learned to become stronger over time if you keep pushing yourself to keep going even when you think you can go no farther. But you will find that you will be a better person in the long run.