After taking the summer off school, it’s time to prepare for the fall semester again. It seems like this summer has gone by in a flash, but you know, what even is time during a pandemic? Today, I’m sharing some things I’m doing to get ready for another semester of college.
It’s crazy to think I started college a year ago. I was brimming with so much anxiety and dread. Just like most major life events, college is idealized in the media. College websites show happy students studying in the grass. Movies portray college life as one huge party with drugs, bad decisions, etc. I just didn’t didn’t know what to expect.
At the start of this semester, I decided I was finally ready to start going to the gym. Last semester, I had kind of wanted to start going, but anxiety had truly held me back. My biggest excuse for not going was that I didn’t have time and I was too tired, but the main reason was anxiety. I was anxious about looking like a newbie at the gym and I had never really used any gym equipment before. Growing up, I did all the kid activities of swimming, dancing, gymnastics, etc. but I had never tried any gym equipment.
If you`ve been following my Insta stories, you know that I am really, really tired of the snow. For the duration of February, it has been snowing 1-3 times a week anywhere from 1-13 inches in depth. I live at the bottom of a long steep driveway that has to be shoveled everytime it snows or else the driveway becomes extremely icy and dangerous. My least favorite part of having any icy driveway is that I have to park my car up at the top of the driveway or else my car literally gets stuck at the bottom and I can’t go anywhere!