The summer before college will be one of the longest educational breaks you will have! Take time for some self-care, mental health reset, reflection, and planning. College is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and a step to being an independent adult. But honest this blog could be applied to any transitions in life
Committing to a school is the first big step but understandably it comes with more demanding responsibilities:
- Practicality
- Budgeting
- Finding onself
- New educational goals
- One step closer to the workforce
- A life plan to set you up for success
In order to transition and take on these responsibilities with the fullest efforts – reflect on things you have done in high school that worked and didn’t work for you – the intersections between social, environmental, and personal developments:
- What made you unhappy in high school
- Was there a trend that you saw yourself doing
- Break bad habits
- Revisit your lowest moments
- Revisit your highest moments
- Reflect on your favorite class
- Make a 4-year plan
- Read about opportunities at your school
- Look into things you want to try out since universities will have a larger variety
- Reflecting on your mental health
- Put yourself first
- People don’t know what to do with more time, pick up new habits
- Spent time doing things I love
- Realizing that thought out high school I have been on a cycle of hard work
- Learning how to relax by doing the thing I love while being offline without stress
- I was able to read books that I wanted to, do art projects that had been pending for years, organizing, throwing away things
- Reevaluating people that are good and bad for my mental health
Plan ahead for ways to approach your college journey!
- Looking over class options
- Looking at the resources available at the school
- Look at clubs you may want to join
- Deciding a brief overview of how you see the next few years of college (plans change, but everyone starts somewhere)
- Reach out to the formal student and current students at the school you plan to go to