NEW PEOPLE, NEW LEARNING HABITS, AND PROCRASTINATION...

     I literally just got here, and I'm totally new here to college. I wish I could say I got the hang of it, but I'm still very fresh out of high school to know what I'm doing. I can understand why it's hard too, cause I need to get out of my habit of having things done with the help from the teacher. It's just like exiting elementary and moving to jr. high; it's a very big step and you're in habits that are hard to break.
     I came here thinking things were going to be very different. I thought school was going to be very troublesome because I also thought that people here were going to be hard on me for being fresh out of high school. I don't know anyone here like I would a friend, but I do know a few people from high school. It's not easy coming from a place that walks you through things, so this experience is really interesting and very disturbing because I always get that feeling that I'm going to fail harder than I did in high school. Actually, though, the people here don't seem to care that I'm new here. I like that a lot. I also like how people here enthuse about learning and WANT to learn here. I would think it's because you now have to pay for classes, and it'd be much better on you to try to pass so you don't have to pay for it if you fail, but either way, they want to learn. This is a big difference from high school. People from there, usually ones I pair up with, are kids who think it's funnier to not learn and pay attention, and I usually don' get work done because of it. I never liked how 80% of the people in the class never wanted to learn, but it's typical high school I suppose. Being here in college though, is a LOT better learning wise. People enthuse about learning and they like to help. I've only met a few people who are "meh" about learning, but it's not too bad. One other thing that trips me up about here, is that the classes mostly compose of online work. It's hard for me to keep track now and then because I'm not so used to it. I'm more used to having the teacher appoint an assignment to us and having us either do it in class or at home. But having online work SHOULD be a lot easier, especially since the work isn't due till the end of the week, but it also promotes procrastination a lot since you're not told every class day to do it. Plus, you can get to the work online to work on it whenever you want, so with that said, it's really easy to put it off. And for coming straight out of high school, it's really hard to break that habit to get work done when I get it the first day. I'm not blaming anyone but myself for this, but I also feel upset because I wasn't informed about online homework. I probably was in high school, but I initially wasn't coming here, but instead to a barber school to learn how to cut hair to later get a job as a barber on base. I like that fact though that I'm here. It means I didn't skip out in preparing myself for what I want to do, and this online class thing will help me stop procrastinating. This week obviously isn't a prime example of it, but someday I'll break out of it.