When you first step on college, I know pretty well that there is that sense of eagerness inside of you. The thought of leveling up to a higher position in your life excites you. It is a new beginning, a start of building new and all fun memories together with a bond of people you share happiness with.
But as you go on the journey, you would realize that the biggest difference of High School and College education is the level of seriousness you need to pour down on your studies, because unlike any other levels of education– College will be your final step in determining the future you will have. It is an odyssey full of both challenging hardships and gold experiences, that will forever be engraved in your hearts and minds– both being significant elements in your career development.
Multiple school tasks and oftentimes close to synchronization deadlines will be the judges in determining your sense of responsibility and worthiness to proceed on the next level, in addition these will also be vital in achieving the degree you want.
College students, especially the seniors, have the biggest and final burden to carry, chiefly because, before they can graduate, they need to spend sleepless nights in order to complete pages of dissertations and to meet other deadlines, that are always in front of their doors, reminding them of what must be their priority.
Having this said, I, as one of the seniors in college, has a little story to tell and it is about a spark of perks of being a fourth year college student.
“Being in senior college is not easy, as what many people believed in– the toughest part of everything is near the end– same goes on the last year of college. Paper works and deadlines are the lifeline of every seniors, and these are present even at fun times, haunting, and makes you dive on the sea of deep thoughts, resulting of you, staring at nothingness, like having your own world to analyze what steps you must undertake in order to accomplish every tasks given to you.
Others are mingling around with different people. Getting to know strangers to make new friends. You on the other hand, is in the corner, observing everyone, in hopes that you might spot something subject worthy to write about, because it is a task from a major course.
Others are holding different kinds of sports balls, eager to play despite the heat of the sun. While you are holding the straps of your bagpack, trying to support the heavy laptop inside, eager to encode the content of your chosen research study, but unfortunately you can’t think of any idea, two fast-approaching days left and that must be submitted by the end of the week.
Others are avoiding the scorching heat of the sun, you on the other hand forge forth, with sharp eyes like an eagle’s, holding a camera, ready and alert to capture worthy moments to be told off on another major course you have.
Most of individuals are wearing their best fashionable clothes that are in trend– off-shoulder dress, ripped jeans, cute skirts or shorts, sandals and sneakers. You on the other hand, knowing that the weather can be sly at times, changing every now and then, from scorching heat to cold rain, avoided every means of getting sick, that is, choosing to wear something comfortable (t-shirt, jeans and sneakers) as well as prepared some protective clothes (cap and jacket), just to take care of your health. As we all know that “Health is wealth” (no pun intended), health is essential to survive your college life.
Enjoying and playing your designated responsibilities with a smile in daytime, While thought-provoking, head-aching, sleepless nights, oftentimes spanning up to midnight, where you collect little bags beneath your eyes, in order to accomplish that tasks you are bound to pass within a week.
Being in senior college is not easy, surely there will be times when you want to just pretend you lost consciousness, wishing that when you decided to open your eyes up again, everything you are obligated to do, every tasks and responsibilities, would just find their own solutions. It is hard.
But the perks of being in the senior year of college?
It lies on the fact that every challenges and hardships you are facing would make you stronger. The lessons it will bear would then be a significant ingredient for your development.
Tough times make you reminisce the happy days you had and await the brighter days, where you can say– it is worth all the sufferings.
Challenges and hardships, make you take great importance of the experiences you are in, eager to surpass every obstacle and prove that you are firm enough to survive it.
Senior year is the last one, the one strong final blow to achieve the degree you long to reach, and when you finally graduate… it’s still not the end, but it will serve as the key, opening up another chapter of your life, where you will now step into the real world full of tougher obstacles, it will not be easy, but the hardships you surpassed on the rest of your college life will serve as your strength, assuring that you will also triumph over the difficulties you are about to face, even if how great it may be.”
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