Dean's List

Woops, been slacking on my blogging game, sorry! But I'm back now and ready to add to my bucket list. My next entry won't apply to everyone and it's not as exciting as traveling to Australia but it is a personal goal of mine.

 

2. Making the Dean's List

My goal for second semester, and all of my following semesters, is to make the Dean's list. To do this, I must get a GPA of 3.3 or higher. In reality it shouldn't be too hard as long as I stay focused. I was .2 points off this semester from making the Dean's list, which motivates me even more to do better this semester. This might seem like a silly thing to add to a bucket list but recently, academics have become really important to me. 

Here's why:

In high school I wasn't a genius by any stretch of the imagination, but I was bright and typically I didn't like to do things half-assed. But at the same time I was also lazy, a professional procrastinator, and a really great BSer. This is how I survived-- I got decent grades and the teachers liked me, but I almost always could have done better. The came Junior year, also known as "THE MOST IMPORTANT YEAR OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER," as my parents liked to remind me daily. This is when you're grades have to be really great because those are the grades that will either make or break your future. Those are the grades colleges look at. And those were the grades I failed at miserably. I feel like everyone goes through that rebellious phase where they do stupid stuff, make friends that are bad influences, and ultimately screw up and piss their parents off. I wasn't lying when I said I don't do things half-assed... I screwed up my Junior year so bad that my parents used to joke that I wouldn't even be accepted to community college. But when I realized that I was messing with my future, I got back on course. I got all my grades up, wrote really great college essays, and had my guidance counselor explain in her letter of recommendation that I was a good student who went through a rough stage at the wrong time. I was accepted to every college I applied to and that's when I realized how important academics really are. 

I know I'm smart, I just need to apply myself. And I feel as though if I succeed in making Dean's list once, I will have the motivation to make the list again in the years to come. I know I'm capable of it, but I need to prove it to myself and to my parents. 

So to do this I figured I just need to follow the basic steps:

1. Prioritize:  Aka get what is due, done. And on time.
2. Study: I've never been a huge studier but in college, you can't really pass any tests without studying so my new motto is study, study study!
3. Go to class: even if the class seems pointless, I need to go. Even my 8 am's. Which I hate.  
4. Homework: I don't have much homework in my classes, so when I do have some it must be a pretty big deal. It would probably be in my best interest to do it, and do it well.

 So I figure as long as those 4 things are accomplished, I have a pretty good chance of making the Dean's List and that's one more thing I can cross off my bucket list :)