Most Common College Problems and What to Do About Them
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For some students, college seems to be a completely effortless period in life. They breeze through their assignments, participate in extracurricular activities, find time for social life, work part-time jobs, and are apparently having the time of their lives. However, if you are reading this article, you probably do not count yourself among these happy few. For most people, the college years are a time of challenges they have to overcome with quite some effort. Fortunately, the kinds of problems students run into are more or less the same for everybody. Do you want to know what they are and how to deal with them? Then read on!
1. Financial Difficulties
If you would ask students what worries them most of all, the absolute majority of them would probably name something related to money. It is hardly surprising. Student debt is at its all-time high and keeps rising. Finding a well-paying job that can be combined with studies is far from being a trivial task. Accommodation, textbooks, and other study materials, transportation – all these things cost money and a lot of it. Quite often, this obstacle seems completely insurmountable.
Chances are, you will have to keep paying off your student debt for years after graduating. Right now, you can try to make sure you finish your course as fast as possible to minimize your expenses. Find a reasonably well-paying job. Keep your personal finance in order – perhaps taking a computerized accounting course is a bit of an overkill, but at the very least, you should be aware of how much you earn and spend. Keep away from credit cards. Look for ways to save.
2. Lack of Time
Another problem most students find at least a bit concerning is insufficient time. With college offering so many possibilities, it often seems that the day simply does not have enough hours to do everything one wants to do.
However, some students find enough time for everything, and usually, it is not because they are insufficiently ambitious. The thing is, such people usually have a well-established system of time and energy management that allows them to keep ahead of the game. You can organize your time in many ways. For example, set the right priorities: separate crucial activities from the things that do not play particular roles in terms of your long-term success, plan what you intend to do every day and/or week, and strive to complete these tasks on time, etc.
3. Too Much Work
If no amount of organization and savvy time management helps you deal with all your responsibilities, it may mean that you simply have too much on your plate. It may be physically impossible to do everything you have taken upon yourself.
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4. Stress
College invariably means a great deal of stress for all involved. You get into a completely new environment, have to deal with new people who are often completely different from yourself, your studies proceed at an unprecedentedly fast rate, you have to solve all your problems on your own. All these things add up, and you should think ahead of time about ways to unwind and relax. When you get into this rat race, it can be too late. What are you going to do to distract yourself from your hardships? Who are you going to talk to when you need somebody who understands you? Answer these questions before you get to college.
5. Academic Decisions
Of course, the major you choose and the general direction of your studies are going to play a huge role in your overall career. However, in the long run, your decisiveness and the ability to make the right decisions (as well as change them when necessary) can be even more important. If you submit an accounting research proposal but later decide that you do not want to follow this line of research, you should be ready to promptly change the direction you move in and offer a different proposal before you waste too much time.
The title of this article states that it is dealing with the most common problems you are going to face in college, and it is true. However, these are just a few samples of the difficulties you are likely to deal with. Being ready for them will prepare you for the worst of it, but you always have to be ready for new challenges. We hope that our article can show you what to expect and how you can apply the same strategies to other contingencies.
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