By LEO ROBLES, Opinion Editor
Since High School, we learn that college is one of the biggest decisions our lives.
We are often told to study hard to be able to apply to college, and we are also told that we wont be able to be successful and life will be hard if we do not go to college.nobody can tell if this is true.
We are close to the end of the year and many of us are ready to enjoy our thanksgiving break. It is relevant to say that many students have had a joyful semester, and others may have a stressful one, but none of the semester is ever easy. Some students still have many more semesters coming up, while others are about graduate.
Every single student at NWOSU have made a great effort into achieving their education and stay positive, responsible, mature and optimistic for what their future semester awaits while others just want to it over with as soon as possible.
We as students may not be realizing all the goals we have achieved so far. If it is only on class that we managed to pass; it still counts as one of our goals. Our instructors surely know the efforts we put in each day.
Wake up, get ready for class, show up, do your work and go to bed may be a tiring routine, and it is fine to sometimes crumble and feel like giving up. Some students hardly seem to realize that by being here, they make sacrifices. A few students may sacrifice money, time, mental and physical health, trips and their chance to have a full time job.
College manages to push students into difficult schedules while we deal with our every day-life and it prepares us for reality, but we always need to get back up and get things done. It is difficult to do almost the same routine every day for years, but it is important that we all have one thing in common as college students which is being here and showing up.
We do what we do not only for our family or money, but we also do this to grow as a person and stimulate ourselves into achieving higher goals and accomplishing our dreams. We do this for a better future and because everyone in life wants to be a winner and achieve their own definition of success. So, if you feel alone, you need to realize that it is not only you that is fighting for a better life.
We all have our own stories and our own challenges in our lives, and we should be proud to look ourselves in the mirror and be proud of who we see in that reflection.
Life has many turns in each one of our paths. What if one day a student drops out of their education. What if a student fails a class or the semester.
We never know what life has for us, but one thing for sure is that we need to stand up for ourselves and be proud of who we are and what have we done. Each one of our goals counts.
After high school, life is not easy for college students, but that is part of how things usually go which is finding our way in the adult life while being a college student. We all know some people that still behave like highschoolers and may not be ready for real life, but we all get our reality check sooner than others.
For some of us it may be hard to see ourselves and think if we are good enough to be where we are, but it requires time to get to that point in yourself.
Finding your way through life is difficult, but it is important to stay sharp because we are building our own generation and legacy, and we need to show the rest of the world that we are ready to define the next generation of adults.
It has been difficult to grow up surrounded by social media and all this technology, but we have come a long way and some of us are not wasting our time looking at Tik tok.
With all the factors that we grew up with, we managed to make our own ways of life, our own generational jokes, our own fears and our own society. Some people may not be proud of our own generation, but we are still marking our path in life, and we should be proud of that at least.
NWOSU has a great student community in which we all can fit in. College means a lot to us, and we appreciate the people who have organized and given their time to have the events. Some students may have not realized that thanks to those in responsible of these events have given us beautiful memories that we have done. Thanks to those for making our student life be joyful and colorful even if we have a lab that it is due at 11:59 p.m. on the same day as the event.
There are many little details in our student life that we may see them as meaningless, but we should think of those more often.
Thanks to college, it unifies us and makes us meet people with different stories, beliefs and goals. With college unifying students from different places, it makes us be more empathetic to others and even challenge our own beliefs. Maybe that is what college is about.
You learn to get up for class, be organized, check your due dates and keep track of your grades, but we also learn how to live with each other physically and mentally. Sooner or later, we realize our strength and weaknesses, and still manage to be fine with who we are.
Some of us are still thankful for having NWOSU as the student experience that we may not want, but we need. The student experience is always present once we are stepping into campus. Being part of the student community can even mean the only motivation that some of need to keep moving forward
College may not be the key for everyone’s life, but it is a big step to take for those who have challenge themselves into reaching for higher goals.
There ae days in which we just wake up and do our every day routine, but with no entusiasm of what the day might have for us. Students get to the point in which they do not even know why they keep showing up to class and doing all their work, but those moments are the ones that make you think if just giving up right now will make it worse. Do people ask themselves “Is all of what I have done and learned worht it?” It is challenging for every human being able to find their motivation and their passion again. Some of us do not have our lives already prepared for the moments we are going through, but each day we learn and learn to keep our faces straight and have the guts to sit in those classrooms and be exactly like any other student.
College is worth it. Some of us hate it, but eventually all of the skills we have been learning throughout the years will pay off.
Everything we do is relevant to our own student experience and each of us shape our own definition of what is college.
No matter how much we study, how much we stress, how much struggle and how much effort it has been put in this opinion, we all need to keep pushing ourselves every day until we get to our definitive goal.
So, let’s stop laying around and work hard every day. Let’s have fun as long as we are still young. Let’s have fun while we are college students. Let’s make some new memories and learn new things each day, and let’s just simply enjoy life itself with its good and bad moments.