A new Beginning

People always told me, "You better change your study habits and your effort in school! College is going to kick your butt if you don't change." I just nodded my head in agreement so they would leave me alone. I thought my study habits were fine, well okay maybe they weren't fine. They probably were not even close to being okay. My study habits in High School were well below mediocre. But i thought everyone's were. I was wrong, see I had two groups of friends; like in my last post about students, and athletes, well I had friends in both. Let me tell you the difference with that see the friends that were just students always study even if it was seniorities and they didn’t want they still did. Now, the athletes, we didn’t have a care in the world. We would seriously just take a few notes, and then skim over the chapter(s) the night before the test. That would get us the low to mid 80's for a grade, our teachers would tell us we need to fix our study habits before college. I never wanted to believe them; I always told my friends we have classes on different days and stuff. Some days you might have three some days you might have two. It all depends on how many hours you are taking. Well while I was right about the classes, I was terribly wrong about not changing my study habits. College is so different from high school in so many ways, studying being the most important. But you also HAVE to read, you can't just go to spark notes and read the chapter summaries. You actually have to read the book itself. College also gives you homework that sometimes won't be due till the next week. You have to be smart and just get it done. You have so much free time in college you might as well do all your work that you’re given, including the reading work. That is the transition from high school to college that is pretty tough. Being responsible enough to do your work when no one is around to tell you too is the main transition.