Coping with college

Coping With College Going to college is important for me, because I believe that it is the next step forward to success. A better education means a better job, and the field that I am going in to requires for me to go to college and have a degree. Why college is important to me are not only because of money, in order to succeed and have little or no struggle financially, you must have a education that will end up being a career of my choice, and not just something I want to settle for, but it has to do with and my life. We all have more than one dream job and we really have to settle for just one, I have always dreamed about teaching history in high school. It's my ultimate dream and goal in life to achieve that dream of becoming a teacher. Without going to college, getting a degree, I would not be able to go into that field. My greatest challenges going to college are time management and the transition from what I was used to in high school. I'm not used to doing 6-9 hours of homework just for one class, in high school the most I did for each classes was about 15-25 minutes, and if I did not feel like doing it at that time, I'd have study halls, which college doesn't have to do it. Doing that much work for just one class means that I don't have enough time to have a social life or spend time with family, or do physical activities, which for me takes 1-2 hours. Having no life and just do school work will drive someone insane. Not having physical activities could deteriorate my health conditions, and really drive me into depression. The transition from high school to college is hard to say the least. I'm not used to having to remind myself of when works are due, I have to be responsible for myself and I am not very responsible. The only way to overcome these challenges would be realizing that I can't handle a 15 credit semester, but I will still do the work that the professors said to do. I want my grades to reflect who I am and what I am capable of. I will