3 Steps to Help You Thrive in College

3 Steps to Help You Thrive in College

The start of a new school year means that there are also plenty of new faces and opportunities.  You would be surprised to know just how much your campus has to offer you.  Whether it is your first semester of college or your last, these 3 steps will be sure to help you thrive this coming year in college. 1) BE OPEN College is a great opportunity to learn more about the world around you and the person you are becoming.  Don’t be stagnant, but rather go and explore.  It might be challenging to go outside of your comfort zone, but an incredible journey always starts with that first step.  Be open to taking new classes, joining new clubs, and meeting new people.  And not just new people, but people who are actually different than you.  Take on a challenge, learn a new skill, take up a new hobby.  Be open to being stretched and letting your thoughts and ideas be challenged as well.  Only then can you really take ownership of what you believe and why.  Be open. 2) BE ROOTED The sky is the limit for you!  But you will only go as high as your roots go deep below.  Remember where you came from and all those who shaped you to be the person you are today.  In college it can be so easy to succumb to peer pressure and just be another face in the crowd.  By being rooted though, you won’t be swayed to the left and to the right into who others want you to be.  Instead you can be free to be...