How Independence Affects College Students

How old is the average student when they start college? Typically they are 18 to 20 years of age now think of all the types of pressure that they experience such as school, work, boyfriend/girlfriend and possible living expenses add that to balancing time and most students are faced with chaos and a bunch of built up pressure. The main stressors I’d like to focus on today are picking a major to turn into a life long career, independence and lastly time management. Many college students are faced with deciding which major they would like to pursue after graduating high school, but for a select few they finish off with a two year academic transfer degree and have no clue what they’d like to major in as their dream job. In the beginning of what one job we want to do when we grow up for boys it’s often a police officer

Being a college student is different then when we lived at home and our parents had to take care of us when we were in high school. it is a whole new aspect of being an independent person to not rely or depend on your parents. Trying to be independent can be hard, but life-changing as college student. Most kids like to be independent and be on their own, but don’t realize the financial responsibilities for groceries, and items that you need instead of items that you want. Being independent can have it’s ups and down’s but when you are at college away from family it kind of makes you homesick, and pressured that you are growing up as an adult and need to learn to do things on your own. Realizing that you need to do these things on your own can be hard, but it is also making you think that you are maturing into a young adult. Pressure on independence as a college student is very different from not having someone wake you up to get ready for school, everything you do is your responsibility which can have a positive or negative effect on your grades or finishing