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Over the course of this school year I have experienced personal growth. I have a roommate from hell, and our difficulties have forced me to look out for my best interests & to protect my peace. Before this situation I had a tendency to put others feelings and well-being over my own. Those days are over, haha.

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Since beginning college I have personally grown

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Since college began, I have grown as a person tremendously. The main growth I been going through since college began is mental growth. Since college began, I have grown too mentally be focussed and keep my goals in the front of my mind, while continuing to try to keep all the distractions and negativity out my head.

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Being in college has meant that you have to make the majority of your decisions on your on. I've always kind of been on my own before college but college has only amplified this, especially the financial side of independence. I have learned how to better manage my own finances and know am better about ways of saving money and not spending all of my money in one place.

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Since starting college I have grown in ways that haven't surprised me but kind of have. I have been forced to manage my time a lot better. I have also had to become a lot more disciplined since not everyday has a set schedule like high school.

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I have always been independent , but being in college has shown me that there's more to life than just the plan that you have set out. You may not accomplish everything you had hoped for, but you had learned and accomplished other things that you didn't even think about.

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Before going off to college, I used to be so pressed when it came to pleasing others. I used to put everyones feelings before mine. Being away from home and not being around family, I have learned that I need to start putting my feelings first. I've also learned I am a very independent person and that everyone doesn't have the same mindset that I do and thats okay. I've grown to be okay with being different. I've also learned that things don't just come to you. If you want something, you have to go get it yourself.

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Since I’ve been in college I have learned the importance of things aside from just grades. I have learned just how important breaks are for your mental health. Growing through a whole school year without breaks has been an incredibly challenging year. The lack of any breaks led to me being incredibly unmotivated towards the end of both semesters. So I have taught myself just how to break effectively without sabotaging my potential success.

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Since I've been in college I have learned to be more confident in myself and I have learned that I make connections through all the social media platforms. I have learned how to really budget my money and only get what I really need.

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Before college, I used to procrastinate entirely too much. That didn’t change immediately because I thought that the workload would be somewhat the same; it wasn’t. After a few weeks I began to manage my time differently and found a set schedule my first semester. I brought the same skill to this semester as well.

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I can definitely say I have grownup a lot during my first year. I learned how to be away from home and dealing with homesickness as well as picking the right groups of friends. I also learned more about the campus and where classroom buildings are and just the campus layout itself. This semester definitely taught me how to budget my money a lot better when going off to school in another state and not having your parents to depend on for everything.

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Since being in college, I have had growth in time management, learning how to jungle classes and everything else going on in my life. This is because at one moment everything was falling apart, my grades were bad and I had to learn how to handle it all

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Since college started, I have had to learn to become more social and make connections. I'm so used to being around the same people but now I'm 8 hours away from my friends and family so I've had to create a new circle of friends. Also I have really had to learn to be he voice of my future. If something is wrong, school wise, then I need to go straight to my professor, dean, etc and address the issue at hand and make sure it gets fixed. Nothing in college is just handed to you.

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Since being in college I feel like I've experienced a lot of personal growth. Overall I just feel like I've started to be myself without compromise. In high school I felt like I had 5 different versions of myself for different friend groups but now I feel like I don't have to do that anymore and I can just be 100% me all the time. I also think I've become more comfortable being alone/isolated, probably because of covid.

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In terms of academically I just learned to study math better. Although in terms of personally (I made a mistake) I was more lenient on my personal boundaries when it came to making friends. This led to me to begin telling them about my personal boundaries and how I don’t like them I ended up hurting their feelings extremely. Even though I hurt their feelings that friendship shouldn’t have started in the first place. In the beginning I should’ve just respected my boundaries so know one would get hurt

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Since being in college, I have experienced personal growth in my spirituality. The beginning of the semester was really hard for me mentally but it also allowed me to look within myself and focus on me. I connected with an old childhood friend of mine, she helped me open up and be comfortable with myself and my position in the world. I am glad that I went through that experience and I am glad I reconnected with an old friends because it helped me adjust to being independent and understanding the ups and downs of life.