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The first few days back on a college campus. Friendly faces all around, renewed energy, and the reality that school starts in a few days still a hazy thought in the back of your mind. Maybe you can relate to this. Classes officially started here at my small North Eastern school on Tuesday and it’s those few days, and your mindset in them that set you up for the semester. (If you’re one of my reader friends who is struggling with depression or anxiety, please don’t give in. Remember give it to God and maybe a close friend and push on. It will be worth it!) This could be your best semester ever if you really work for it. This is your chance to be on the offensive. Analyze your schedule, course load, and anything extra you have and figure out when your best time is to work. I’m blessed with a really great schedule this semester, so I’m planning on getting through as many of my textbooks as possible in the first month so that I can focus on projects later on, and still have fun. What can you do? Remember, college is a chapter of life, but its not your whole life, so don’t forget to be yourself and live.
Since its still January, its still a time to think about what your goals are for the year. I hope you haven’t given up! I haven’t. I’m not perfect, but I’m going to keep at it! Remember, slow and steady!
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It was in January of 2009 when she stepped out of a black SUV onto the snow laden campus that would now be her home. She was nervous, excited, dreading the thought of “The freshman 15” and grateful to finally be where she felt God had called her to be. Semesters went by, she became molded into friendships, some meant to last, others faded into the shadows of hectic schedules and were overcome. She found out her strengths, weaknesses, convictions, and most difficult of all, learned was how to say no. Each year brought with it stresses, joys, fears, challenges, questions, and hopes that sometimes seemed smaller than all it had to fight against, yet with its sister, faith, it was able to keep standing up whenever it got thrown to the ground. All of these things brought her to where she is today. A college senior, sitting in an apartment, facing her last two semesters with a sense of reverent fear, and God-given hope and joy.
Now that you’ve read a brief synopsis of my college career, allow me to introduce myself. Hi, I’m Beth, a 21 year old senior studying Digital Media-Video Production at a small college, blogging about all of the “non-academic” thoughts and interests of an eclectic, deviant, practical-ish college student.
Over the past 4 or 5 years I’ve collected a lot of cool ideas and information on things that you would probably find useful to know. For example, what is good nutrition and can college students have it? How much healthier would a college student be if they chose to live in an apartment, and cook their own food majority of the time? What does a college student need to know about themselves in order to time manage? How difficult is it to become a couponer, and how much could somebody actually save by becoming one? How can a college senior prepare for life after walking across the stage in May?
If you want to come along for the ride and learn about some of the things I’ve discovered throughout my college career it would be my pleasure to share with you all about these things and hopefully much more.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seekme and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile. – Jeremiah 29:11-14
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein