#firstyearadvice

Any advice for a first year Uni student studying Education?

Hey!! This is a really great question, and honestly, it depends on the student and how important a high GPA is to you. Me personally? I really don’t value a high GPA. I value learning the material the best way I can and leaving the semester with my sanity. So for me, I make mostly B’s with an A here or there while being able to take an hour to eat dinner with my husband and watch a show and then have another hour or so to play a little video games or knit and still get 7-8 hours of sleep every night.

This also depends on the test schedule. Some weeks are just study, study study, but please do me a favor! Take breaks!!! A lot of my classmates get 2 hours of sleep and study at least 5 hours a day. That’s great if you want all A’s or just for bragging rights, but you burn out SOOOOOOOOO fast.

Long story short/TL;DR, you absolutely have free time. Not as much as you did in undergrad where you could just slack off for a week and study some on weekends, but more than you hear. Absolutely study every single day. I have taken days off if I’m feelings SO overwhelmed, but that happens maybe once a month. Your sanity is more important. :)

The TL;DR was still long…sorry about that.

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