Balance As a University Student

 

   

Most university students, when they freshly get into school think campus life is the same as life in a boarding house or secondary school. While in secondary school, there were so many structures put in place to ensure that you read, study, and do well in your exams. Some structures include having lesson teachers, and your parents monitoring your reading and results.

Do you remember those days of open day, prize giving, and P.T.A meetings? We really do not have such structures in place in the university. Here in the university, you are not forced to go to classes, you can choose to attend tutorials or not, there is so much freedom and liberty as compared to the times we were in secondary school.

Balance is needed to effectively maximize opportunities in school. In this second semester, there are so many activities to keep students busy; like hall week, faculty week, departmental week, seminars, lectures, sporting competitions, elections at departmental, faculty, and hall levels coupled with classes, assignments, projects, tests and exams. Some people even have businesses they are running side by side schooling.

Currently, lecturers are teaching with the speed of light and the semester is running like flash.

To have balance as a student, you need to get your priorities right and create systems to keep you right on track; create schedules and to-do lists, take care of your body, eliminate distractions, set goals, learn to walk away from things that don't work for you, pick your circle of friends rightly, be accountable, learn what works for you and do it, stay humble and learn from those who are ahead of you, and most importantly believe that you can do it. Finding balance will help you beyond the four walls of the university, you will find it easy to thrive when you get out of school. It is not too late to get serious and find balance.