Successful In College
Creative Writing Essay 1
How To Be Successful in College
To be successful in college one should be able to do many things. One of those things is to have superior time management skills. For example, if a project is due in two weeks, it shouldn’t be done at the last minute. One should take time out each day, preferably thirty to forty-five minutes. This way the project will reflect you best work. If not, then then project won’t even be finish or even if it was managed to be done, it wouldn’t as good and will receive a low grade. Another skill that is needed to be successful in college is having a safe financial behavior. If you only have one hundred dollars to spent for the week, you should waste it on stupid things like new shoes or a t-shirt, …show more content…
Whenever something is due, I always get some part of it done every day so I don’t have the rush to get the entire thing done the day before it is due. Even it was just to study for a test: if I know when I’m going to have a test in the future I set out about ten to twenty minute everyday reviewing for the test. Going on to how I use my money, I have a job where I work as a tutor at a tutoring center who teaches math. I get paid every two weeks, and every time I get the paycheck I always put half of it in my savings account and half or it in my checking account. This way if something was to happen and I need something immediately, I can dip into my savings account, although that has yet to …show more content…
Little did I know that they both require out of school work. By my second quarter of my freshmen year, I wasn’t able to go to sleep until 11pm. Now who would want to hang out at 11 o’clock in the night? I would always lack the time to do it. Coming home at 2:30, I ate a snack, went up to my room at 3:30 and started on my work. I would start my 1st block homework, which would finish at 5. It took so long because it was World History and social studies isn’t my strong point. Than I would start my Math homework and finish in an hour or so and it would be time for dinner by then. I would eat dinner, which took about 45 minutes, and then go back to my room to finish the rest. Then I did my 3rd and 4th period homework, which were Science and Spanish. By then it was 9. You would think that I’m done, but hold on a second. I still have HOSA and Debate, the 2 hardest clubs in high school. Doing work for both those clubs would take my right to about 10:45 or 11:00. You have no idea how important time is until you have used it all up. I would always wish for the weekend to come so I can get the chance to have fun and spend some time with my
How To Be Successful in College
To be successful in college one should be able to do many things. One of those things is to have superior time management skills. For example, if a project is due in two weeks, it shouldn’t be done at the last minute. One should take time out each day, preferably thirty to forty-five minutes. This way the project will reflect you best work. If not, then then project won’t even be finish or even if it was managed to be done, it wouldn’t as good and will receive a low grade. Another skill that is needed to be successful in college is having a safe financial behavior. If you only have one hundred dollars to spent for the week, you should waste it on stupid things like new shoes or a t-shirt, …show more content…
Whenever something is due, I always get some part of it done every day so I don’t have the rush to get the entire thing done the day before it is due. Even it was just to study for a test: if I know when I’m going to have a test in the future I set out about ten to twenty minute everyday reviewing for the test. Going on to how I use my money, I have a job where I work as a tutor at a tutoring center who teaches math. I get paid every two weeks, and every time I get the paycheck I always put half of it in my savings account and half or it in my checking account. This way if something was to happen and I need something immediately, I can dip into my savings account, although that has yet to …show more content…
Little did I know that they both require out of school work. By my second quarter of my freshmen year, I wasn’t able to go to sleep until 11pm. Now who would want to hang out at 11 o’clock in the night? I would always lack the time to do it. Coming home at 2:30, I ate a snack, went up to my room at 3:30 and started on my work. I would start my 1st block homework, which would finish at 5. It took so long because it was World History and social studies isn’t my strong point. Than I would start my Math homework and finish in an hour or so and it would be time for dinner by then. I would eat dinner, which took about 45 minutes, and then go back to my room to finish the rest. Then I did my 3rd and 4th period homework, which were Science and Spanish. By then it was 9. You would think that I’m done, but hold on a second. I still have HOSA and Debate, the 2 hardest clubs in high school. Doing work for both those clubs would take my right to about 10:45 or 11:00. You have no idea how important time is until you have used it all up. I would always wish for the weekend to come so I can get the chance to have fun and spend some time with my