On my own

After each week I am feeling better about transitioning into college from high school. I am feeling like I can really start to stand on my own two feet. I know that I can do anything if I just keep my head up and my thoughts positive. This week I realized that I can do almost anything on my own, and when I can’t I have amazing support system that wants me to success in life. I can always go to them and ask for help when I need them.

This week I was starting to feel very overwhelmed with all the homework I was assigned and all the material that I need to study over for my Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab midterm that I have on Tuesday. I did the whole freak out dance for a day and then I realized that I was going to be fine after I went to the talk by Mary Steinhardt’s talk about stress and failure. She gave me a whole new way to look at failure. I am the person that freaks out about tests and exams; I really don’t like exams or tests. I had an exam, test or some kind of quiz this week for all of my classes this week.

I now tell myself that I can do it, I know the material and if I don’t make the best grade on the exam it’s not the end of the world. You can’t have success without failure. You have to know how it feels to fail to really get how awesome it feels to make a great grade on something.

I haven’t been doing very well in math for a couple weeks and I was at the point that I wanted to drop the class, but I talked to my peer mentor, Molly about it and she got me to realize that just because I’m not doing so well in the class right now doesn't mean that it will not get better later on. I just got out of my math class and it turns out that I got a 95 on a pop quiz! I am so excited, I just have to ask for help on things that I am having problems on and not just staring at the problems hoping that the answer will come to me.

I am feeling so much better about being a college student; I am making more friends, I am making better grades, I am learning to juggle work and scantily, and I am feeling better about myself!