Short Term Goals In College

In college there are short term goals that I have to achieve if I want to be a successful college student. My three short term goals that is plan to do is pass my final exam, pass my U.S. History Eoc, and pass my research paper. To ensure I achieve these short term goals I will have to make a weekly schedule so I can make time to study and acquire the knowledge for my Eoc. The amount of time I will study each day will be one hour then as each day goes by my knowledge will increase due to the new pathways I am creating in my brain. Another way to ensure I achieve my goals is to make some alone time for myself and slow down on going out with my friends. I believe by doing this I will get less distracted when doing my work and make me stop procrastinating making me achieve my short term goals. By achieving these short term goals I will get closer to achieving my long term goals causing me to proceed further in my college life.

Although short term goals are important the ones that carry you further in your college life is your long term goals.

The long term goals I have set up is to graduate my two years of college, get my job as a process operator for Dow Chemical, and get all A+ in my college classes I will take in the future. Although these long term goal seem difficult to achieve I believe if I stop my procrastination I will be able to get my work done ahead of time and have more free time to study or hang out with friends, This will cause less stress on myself since I do not have to worry about having to leave my friends again. Another way to achieve my goals is to cut out the time I spend on video games I believe if I get rid of my video games and play them on my free time only I will be able to carry on further with my college life since I do not have the urge to play with my

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While I try to achieve my long and short term goals there will be predicaments that will push me from not achieving my goals. Some of these barriers that will affect my short term goals is my job since I work different times throughout the week this will make me have to rearrange when I have time to do homework, and study. Another barrier that will affect my short term goals is band because we start practice during football season monday-friday 2 ½ hours each day. However, by getting past these barriers I will be able to overcome to have a sharper mind that will let me plan my schedule better for both my short term and long term goals making me achieve what I needed the most.