Attention freshman do not I repeat do not make studying your life in college. Find a balance between your school work and your personal life. I’m not telling you to not study, I’m telling you to live your life as well. College is about getting a degree as well as finding yourself, making friends, involving yourself in orgs, and having a good time. Your not going to be able to enjoy life if your constantly in your room studying. Freshman understand that this is the beginning of your life. All those dream, goal, and aspirations you have starts right now. Everything you want out of life starts in college. Which can be career wise and/or personally for you. Understand this generally most people’s workday consist of an 9-5. What will your life be after that 9-5 is over. Who will you be other than you career. What attribute would you give yourself other than your career. Life isn’t measured by your job but how you’ve enjoyed it. Will a career be part of you life absolutely but don’t let it be your life. See there a difference between a part of something and is something. Life has many different pieces to it don’t let one piece consume the others. Make moment that’s you never forget, meet people that will be your friends at your wedding. Therefore, you can’t make that happen being in your dorm studying all day. I wish someone would have told me that coming in. Especially with how the world is right now and this pandemic we are in. You need that human interaction more than ever. It’s a basic need of human life and just like this pandemic has shown us it can be taken away from you. Now that you are given a chance make the most of it. Another piece of advise that I must give freshman is that it’s okay to fail. I repeat it’s okay to fail. No one is perfect and most people don’t expect you to be. So if your coming out of high school top of your class always having A’s, a B to you might be failing but that’s okay. High school and college are two different things for a reason they are on two different playing fields think about. In high school you had an entire year to lean a subject. Now you have roughly 5 months to learn a subject. That a big difference between time frames. So don’t be down on yourself because you not meeting the expectations your use too. I would say since your in a new environment set new expectations for yourself. To help you better transition into being a college student. If you ask any student or even the person you look up to they will tell you that there failures is what made them into the person they are today. Failure brings you growth and understanding in what not to do or what you need to improve upon. So when you do fail not matter what it may be know that it’s there to make you better, because failure is okay. Diversity has greatly impacted my life and my college experience. As a black man who goes to a predominantly white school there are hurdles that I’ve faced, objects that I fought against, but it’s been more positive than negative. Diversity played such a crucial role in my life when all the innocent shooting of black people was happening in the world. I saw so many people of different nationalities, ethnicities, color come out and support Black Lives Matter. My campus had a whole protest that was put on by students and professor and it showed that my professors and fellow students do care about me. It’s just felt so surreal having my feeling being validated and my voice being heard. By people who have never experience what I’ve and people who look like me gone through, but yet tried to be understanding and empathic to what I was feeling. That’s why I’m forever grateful for the diversity on my campus because it’s truly blessed me to see the that there was still love and compassion on this earth. There’s many reasons why it’s important to me to graduate but I’ll dim them down to a few. First and foremost my family but mostly my grandmother is why I strive for this degree. My grandmother has 3 children and 8 grandchildren and I’m number 4. No of her children had a degree. So when my brothers and cousin started going to college and finally getting degrees I see the joy it’s gives her. I see the prayers she been praying forget answered. I see every struggle that she went through, every sacrifice being rewarded through us. My brother is currently getting his doctrine in psychology. My granny never would have fandom to say that she has a doctor in her family. Especially not the way she was raise back in those times. I know God is blessing my family and answering her prayer. She always I pray that y’all have a better life than me and our parents. She’s praying that every generation have better and better and better lives than the generation before them. Which is exactly what’s happening. Second reason why it’s important to graduate college is for the dream and goals I have in life. I want to have my own accounting firm and how can I run a business without a degree. How can I make my dreams a reality without a degree. I can’t and I know God will help me accomplish my dreams but I must take it one step at a time. Which that step is getting this degree.