Presumably you've survived the first few parties, perhaps gotten a taste of demon rum or keg beer, walked downtown with your new roommate, discovered some cool shops, ogled some cute boys and gotten up close and personal with a textbook or two. If you're not new to campus and are a returning student, you've searched for old friends, checked out your favorite haunts and...revisited the student bookstore - your least favorite place to spend ungodly amounts of money. How much were those books? Really? Really??
But you're not here to listen to me join in the rant about how much money you just spent - and now you've got to crack them all and start absorbing too much stuff that you will begin to wonder if you will ever truly use. Sucks to be you. "Been there done that." I remember a sign under the clock at the library at my alma mater that opined: "Time will Pass...Will You?" I remember sitting there thinking that I had to stop grabbing a mag in the Periodical section before studying each day. An hour would pass. I'd read this and that - and if I hadn't wasted my time on this stupid magazine I could have finished the damned French lesson. Geez - and then, of course I would expand the thought to the semester, the year, and finally to graduation.
Ya know - after looking at that damned clock enough times and reading that blurb about time passing it really sunk in - and I really got serious. I would just hold my breath and dive in and in x number of hours I'd finished my study, did the research, written the essay and...time had passed. Thinking about studying is like thinking about going to the dentist - Don't ever think about it - just show up, sit in the chair and before you know it, its over. Same with study. Be like a study bot. Turn on. Turn off. Done!
The key is don't dwell on what it's gonna take. Just size it up and get it done. The pain is mostly in the anticipation. Anticipation breeds over thinking and over thinking breeds tension, anxiety and worry. So eliminate the worry and instead spend the calories of energy on the doing. For sure the time will pass, so surf it with a textbook and get off that damned cell girl. Imagine taking a two hour selfie video of yourself studying. Now rewind and fast forward and be amazed at how many times you checked your social media sites. Really?...OMG!
Academics is obviously the elephant in the room on campus. You need to feed the elephant in the room or it 's stomach will begin to progressively complain louder and louder. You want to experience love? It's really hard when you're hating yourself for waiting so long to read the book and then you get ambushed by a pop quiz. Ouch! Really hard to react casually to a guy outside of class when you're all tied up in knots over a term paper you're really late getting started on. Really tough to look attractive when your face is tense because of a exam you just failed. Really hard to relax and hang out in a group when your prof handed back a paper this afternoon and says you can do a lot better than that. GPA's are really hard to affect after you've weighed them down with a lot of poor scores. Want to bring a happy heart to a campus relationship? Study. Romance is a huge distraction once cupid has you in his sights. Get that GPA up and be prepared to enjoy campus men - with a happy heart! More next Thursday on romance.
But you're not here to listen to me join in the rant about how much money you just spent - and now you've got to crack them all and start absorbing too much stuff that you will begin to wonder if you will ever truly use. Sucks to be you. "Been there done that." I remember a sign under the clock at the library at my alma mater that opined: "Time will Pass...Will You?" I remember sitting there thinking that I had to stop grabbing a mag in the Periodical section before studying each day. An hour would pass. I'd read this and that - and if I hadn't wasted my time on this stupid magazine I could have finished the damned French lesson. Geez - and then, of course I would expand the thought to the semester, the year, and finally to graduation.
Ya know - after looking at that damned clock enough times and reading that blurb about time passing it really sunk in - and I really got serious. I would just hold my breath and dive in and in x number of hours I'd finished my study, did the research, written the essay and...time had passed. Thinking about studying is like thinking about going to the dentist - Don't ever think about it - just show up, sit in the chair and before you know it, its over. Same with study. Be like a study bot. Turn on. Turn off. Done!
The key is don't dwell on what it's gonna take. Just size it up and get it done. The pain is mostly in the anticipation. Anticipation breeds over thinking and over thinking breeds tension, anxiety and worry. So eliminate the worry and instead spend the calories of energy on the doing. For sure the time will pass, so surf it with a textbook and get off that damned cell girl. Imagine taking a two hour selfie video of yourself studying. Now rewind and fast forward and be amazed at how many times you checked your social media sites. Really?...OMG!
Academics is obviously the elephant in the room on campus. You need to feed the elephant in the room or it 's stomach will begin to progressively complain louder and louder. You want to experience love? It's really hard when you're hating yourself for waiting so long to read the book and then you get ambushed by a pop quiz. Ouch! Really hard to react casually to a guy outside of class when you're all tied up in knots over a term paper you're really late getting started on. Really tough to look attractive when your face is tense because of a exam you just failed. Really hard to relax and hang out in a group when your prof handed back a paper this afternoon and says you can do a lot better than that. GPA's are really hard to affect after you've weighed them down with a lot of poor scores. Want to bring a happy heart to a campus relationship? Study. Romance is a huge distraction once cupid has you in his sights. Get that GPA up and be prepared to enjoy campus men - with a happy heart! More next Thursday on romance.