Then this summer came and I finally had the time I really needed to sit down and figure out what I needed to do to change the things I needed to change in my life. An important part of that reflection was looking at what was really behind so much of what I was feeling and experiencing. One of those root causes was my love-hate relationship with time.
My plan was to give up social media completely for an entire 7 days, with the hopes that maybe it would let me recollect a bit before returning to it. I turned off all of my notifications and moved all social media apps to another page on my phone to avoid temptation. Then I let the detox begin!
My students will most likely never see this. They won’t get to hear from this side of Miss C. the way I wish they could. But maybe, just maybe, someone else will.
In just a few weeks college students everywhere will be packing up and heading back to school. Here is my best advice for navigating your first year successfully.
Disappointment is part of life, but it doesn’t have to define it. Even when we think that nothing will ever get better, or that we have lost our one and only chance at something, we can turn things around.
