Throughout the first semester of my college career, I have learned a lot about myself that I did not notice in high school. I have learned that when I put my mind to something then I can achieve a goal fairly easily, but if I let myself slip and I slack off, then I dig myself into a big ditch that is hard to get out of. I believe that I am in a good spot in my learning process. I gained a lot of ways to get my grades up over this first semester, now I can apply them further to future semesters.
My biggest challenge so far is time management. I came into the year fully into the football season, which took up a lot of time. Instead of wanting to study or do homework, I would want to take naps throughout the day, so I would be rested for practice. This caused me either to stay up late studying, or not even study at all which hurt me. Since I had to do 5 hours of study hall every week, I found myself saving all my work for study hall time, instead of doing it when I actually wanted to. Once I got to study hall, I did not want to do anything, which hurt.
I believe that my biggest achievement so far is surviving a semester of college as an athlete. Not everyone can even handle the normal college scene, but then add athletic activates on top of that is difficult. I am proud to say I have survived it thus far and look forward to staying many more years. Determination is what helped me earn success as a football player. Proving to myself and to my family and friends that I could be a successful student athlete drove me to complete work that I did not really want to do. Pep talks from my dad like: “for every one thing that you want to do, there will be ten things that you won’t want to do.” helped me realize to just suck it up and get things done. I was talking with my friend, and I made the comment that most of the semester we spend sleeping and he agreed. This is probably not a good thing but I can attribute it to football and long grinding days. The result is that my grades aren’t as good as I want them to be, my goal was and still is to make the Deans list, and I don’t believe I met that goal over this first semester.
This first semester is not what I thought it was going to be like. My grades are decent, but I have not really learned that much book information. I feel that this semester had a focus of getting freshman used to the college experience more than memorizing information. I thought that I would have my head buried in a book any chance that I could or else I would fail, and that hasn’t happened. My first goal was to overachieve in academics and get grades that people wouldn’t think that I would get, and I have not done that, I have stayed the same grade wise as I always have. Also, I wanted to complete the football season and stick it out, which I have thus far and I know I will as long as I am here.
As far as the future goes, the main point as always will be my grades. I need to focus more on them and raise my GPA so that I have a better chance of getting a job after college. I think that I should change my sleep schedule and make sure I get to bed at a reasonable time. This will help with my academics and my athletics. My first goal will stay the same: to make deans list. Also I am going to add two: the first is to not drop a class and the second is to start at quarterback next year. There is no sense in setting goals if they are to be just mediocre. You need to set goals that will make you the best person you can be and you need to put countless hours of hard work in to achieve those goals. I am looking forward to chase these goals next semester.
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