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When someone utters the phrase “student life,” it has an odd way of bringing both smiles and groans from those who have either lived through it or are currently going through it. Being a student comes with its highs and lows; moments of excitement and moments of stress, and that’s something that I have experienced first hand. Here, in this article, I’ll be sharing some of the struggles and triumphs I’ve faced in my journey through student life.
Challenges of being a student
With class sessions, tests, assignments, and presentations, students always have plenty on their plate. But it doesn’t stop there. There are also the financial troubles, academic pressure, and the immense responsibility of being self-sufficient. As a student, having to juggle responsibilities, academic duties with personal issues can be challenging, and during some points in life may feel overwhelming.
The struggle to meet financial obligations:
Being financially independent as a student comes with challenges such as the constant dilemma of paying off tuition fees, rent, food, transportation, and other expenses. It can be overwhelming, and many students will attest to having to creatively and diligently find multiple income streams, including part-time or weekend meager-paying jobs.
Academic pressure:
The sheer thought of acquiring good grades throughout your academic life tends to build up an immense amount of pressure on a student’s mental and emotional health. Getting that A or passing the course exam can feel so satisfying while narrowl leaning below the cut-off feels dehumanizing; exposing us to assorted mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
Finding your homespace:
Living away from home in a new city, perhaps even a new country, maybe a liberating experience, but it can also be both lonely and intimidating moments. Trying to meet new people, enroll in classes, exploring the neighbourhoods, and harmonize that work-play balance-if one can still call it that- can understandably feel daunting leaving some students feeling more vulnerable and unsure of where and quality home-study space.
Battling Fear Of Missing Out syndrome:
As a student trying to keep up a social life simmering with your primary academic focus calls for strain between wanting to explore every opportunity and missing out on what other people would describe as the “avant-guarde-school life experience.” It has taken me some time and practice to internalize this and learn to focus on my achieved academicity introspectively—some few friends, the book I can borrow tomorrow, and a bowl of popcorn…life!
Triumphs of being a student
Despite these struggles, being a student has its incredible moments and triumphs, and they often come at the most unexpected time.
The opportunity to meet new people:
Being a student offers untold the joyride of meeting new individuals whose differing backgrounds accurately identify them. Student diversity across ethnicity, religion, cultures, and gender simultaneously offers social opportunities to personally avail explore and learn without prejudice in tandem with academic knowledge.
Seeing endless potential through self-development:
School necessitates anchoring pieces like group projects, individual assignments, required readings, field visors, and teaching responsibilities. Still, the entire stimulating curriculum suite brings knowledge into endless possibilities, and being able to foster independent intellectual and social engagement holds an outbound promises and one that guarantees self-growth.
The power vested in networking:
Getting involved in activities presents students with opportunities to branch into a wider social network base-that personal brand identity that tends to be vital to every stage of society, at home and abroad. As much as possible, indeed, many extracurricular activities act as a bonus-housed free passes that land you into the industries, workspaces, neighborhoods, graduate programs.
Conclusion
Life as a student can be challenging in the least with straightforward breadcrumbs outlining college impact: pays premium with a graduate degree or credential. However, it is the fullness presented as an ever-bending and stretching canvas presented by the educational student journey. I often find that emphasizing its incremental improvement facets of perspective taking, creative learning, critical thought constructing in problem-solving circumstances both enrich and indeed nourish one’s unique vibrancy-A rallying cry ready to excite year-after memorable student year.
