Everyone gets mixed emotions when they step into one of the most dramatic and adventurous phases of life - college. Some people get really excited to embark on this new journey, while others get tensed when they think of all the unnecessary human interaction they would have to engage in.
Here are some tips that would help you to make the best out of your time at college and focus on other aspects of life as well.
Set Your Goals and Prioritize Accordingly
One of the most important things that should stay clear in your mind is your priorities. Always remember the goal for which you came to college, whether it is for your studies, getting a good job, refining your sports or extra-curricular activities, or engaging in any other endeavor. If you let yourself get affected by other things such as relationships and college activities to the extent that they start drifting you away from your aim, then that isn’t fair to you in the end.
You have worked hard to get admitted to an institution, and it’s your responsibility to complete that goal which you had dreamt to achieve. Similarly, align your other activities and participation with your end goal. Having a set goal and working with determination and hard work would enable you to come out of other lows and highs of your life as well, where a lot of people get disembarked from their primary goal and wander off to delusional contentment.
Make Sure to Give Time to Your Family
All people are initially too attached to their family members as they leave their hometowns and start living with strangers that soon become the new family. However, as time passes family is taken as for granted. Students start lying to them and start considering them as a hindrance to the newly achieved freedom.
Close ties with parents and other close friends should be tried to kept intact as they are your well-wishers, who would never leave your side and always make sure that you are safe and secure. Talking to them once a while, sharing some of the problems, listening to their share of problems, it ensures them that you are doing fine and also provide you a sense of satisfaction and security that someone has got your back. Thus, emotional support plays an important role, whereas ruining the bonds with your close ones would end up hurting you in one way or the other.
Explore Different Avenues
Don’t restrict yourselves from exploring or engaging in other activities for a little change, but try not to overburden yourself. As mentioned previously, prioritize here as well. Don’t just stick to the notion that you will become an Investment Banker, it might be possible that you don’t even have the liking for the career choice a college offers you a whole new platform to explore different fields by means of societies, competitions, and engagement with other personalities.
Also, fun and mental peace go hand in hand with development until they are in the optimum amount. Therefore don’t restrict yourself from adventure trips or outings once in a while s they help you to live life and enjoy. Such events seldom tend to become life long livable memories and lead to the birth of many new bonds and friendships too.
Networking and Engagement
One of the most important aspects that can’t be stressed enough in my opinion is networking. Many a time people aren’t just able to showcase their personalities during school due to the fear of being judged and bad impact on the existing image amongst peers and teachers. College gives you a second chance.
Especially, if you have been living the image of an all goody-good person, here’s the chance for you to be as crazy as you want to be and explore anything that you aspired to. Just don’t coincide within the shell that has been created around you by the society you have just escaped, break the shell, hustle, and live life as a free individual. Make friends, talk to people, and try to gain as many perspectives as possible.
Meeting new people would definitely widen your horizons as each person has a unique trait and a different personality that has a lot to learn from. Seize the opportunity and build healthy relations that would help you in the future too. A college isn’t made good just by the facilities it provides or its faculty, it’s the people that surround you.
Conclusion
As a concluding note, it can not be denied how important college time can be in one’s life as you make life long friends and relations, explore various different activities, build your career and get a chance to be yourself. Just work hard, hustle daily, never lose hope, and keep the end goal in your mind. No wonder, your college life would be both successful and enjoyable at the same time.
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Written By - Bhanu Jain
Edited By - Kashish Chadha
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