Handling College Responsibility and Stress

Hello my fellow LAGCC colleagues, I’d like to address an insight on how my academic life interacts with my personal life. Notice that I said that with confidence, but don’t let that fool you because there’s more to it. In between these “interactions” a lot goes down to the point where it becomes a routine if you don’t control it. I’m also sure that you all as well undergo very similar actions that complicate both of these lives. However, there are ways to possibly manage or at least be responsible towards these lives. Mind you that I say all of this through personal experiences as well as a few that aren't settled yet.

Ways in which you can be responsible as a student are very assuring as well as irritating. I say irritating because they become somewhat annoying and stressful. However, all these ways in which are irritating are as well very assuring in the sense that you’ll have that feeling of accomplishment and success knowing that you’re on top of your academic life as well as your personal life. First off your academic life should be carefully and strictly monitored. As a conflict, or your personal life will complicate your academic life. However that’s on you to make sure that they both interact well with each other and that your success isn’t jaded by your own lack of responsibility and I know this first hand because I let the stresses of my personal life control my academic life at one point. The responsibilities in which a student should have is a strong dedication that is backed by the direct reason to succeed in school. The future thoughts of what you want to achieve in life should be your fuel for your daily tasks. Keep in mind that failure is not acceptable to yourself, because once you accept the fact of failing that is when your dedication becomes weakened and possibly lost. Yes I know your personal life probably complicates all of this but it’s up to you to make it not complicate it and structure it in ways that you can timely manage every day. As far as the stress goes, you can stop all that from accumulating or even happening as long as you stay on top of your work. If that means inputting it to very personal times then do so. For example, however this may sound boring or pointless, if you have a novel that you should be reading then take it out with you wherever you go or at least most of the places you go. Why you ask? Well the fact that you most likely will have intervals of 10-15 minutes where you’re free and in that case you can easily knock out a decent amount of pages. However, that’s just one example out of hundreds. The point of this is that it is you that controls your academic life, even when your personal life intervenes with it. You just need to find common grounds in ways you can work around your stress whether it is because of your personal life or academic life.

Now for the stress part within the academic life which is what tends to weaken our dedication and motivation and I say this with a strong voice because it’s a case I undergo from time to time. If you feel like you don’t understand the criteria or it is complicated, there are many ways to simply it all. First off you have classmates, then your professors, then you have student services, oh and let’s not forget student organized study sessions! Also I find that going somewhere that you feel comfortable but not to comfortable in the sense you'll be lazy but at least have a motivational atmosphere that will fuel you in getting work done. Very insightful right but however a lot of you probably don’t like to ask for help, so the best thing I can tell you is to drop that pride and realize the bigger picture here. It’s either your future or your present pride, so think very hard and make the right decision, please.