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6 Ways You’re Sabotaging Yourself In College & How to Stop

6 Ways You're Sabotaging Yourself In College & How to Stop - Improve College Life // ew & pt

Ahh, self-sabotage. We all do it. We all hate that we do it. We continue to do it. It’s an endless cycle and it’s among many endless, terrible cycles we have throughout college. Self-sabotage is inevitable. Sometimes you just need to eat a hot pocket at two in the morning while writing an essay that’s due in six hours. That being said, if you’re more aware of how you’re sabotaging yourself and you know of ways to stop doing so, it can help you down the line.

I created a 10 Ways You’re Sabotaging Yourself + How To Stop post a few weeks ago and decided to make a college edition. So, my fellow college students, here are some ways you’re sabotaging yourself in college and how to stop.

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8 Ways To Get The Most Out of College

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Now that you’re effectively getting the most out of your classes (because you’re a bad ass who already read my post on that and if you’re not you’re going to read it right now) it’s time to take a step back and examine the experience.

Experiences are what life is all about and if you’re going to be spending four years of your life in college, it ought to be an experience.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Classes

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So this isn’t necessarily about Getting Straight A’s, it’s more about actually gaining something of value. Grades are important but it’s also important to get the most out of your classes, especially because they’re most likely expensive as hell. They also take up a huge chunk of time in your life and if you’re going to be spending time and money, you definitely want to be adding something valuable to your life!

They also take up a huge chunk of time in your life and if you’re going to be spending time and money, you definitely want to be adding something valuable to your life! Sometimes the classes you predict will be the most irrelevant and asinine end up being the classes that help better your life or help you gain knowledge you can use in the future. For me, the class I thought would be a waste of my life was Community Psychology and it ended up shifting my perspective, teaching me lessons that I can apply to real life and I even ended up using it as inspiration for some blogs and articles!

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