Success in College Life: Fighting for Success

Students who enter the college usually collide with many problems, choices, changes, achievements, obstacles, impressions and people. The entire students have a desire to be successful and reach a lot during the college studying. But unfortunately the majority of the students do not realize how to achieve the success and make the student life more comfortable, easy and impressive. They say that college students worry about falling exams or classes, getting nervous about their sliding GPA, feeling overwhelmed, experiencing severe test anxiety, having trouble studying, studying – but having trouble with tests, thinking about quitting college and changing their majors. Obviously, those college students are really worried by all these. Their worry showed in 2004 academic international poll in which 86% of college students said that they are having a lot of problems in college than any time in their life. (“National Academic Association said”). But just as most of these students do not give realistic view about their life, they start having no idea of what is going on in college, and how to do to get the achievement in college. The fact is that not all the students are lost and not capable to achieve the successful in college. While they struggle with problems in their college life, some successful students are doing what they have always done: finding ways to get success in their academic. They are currently staying on the battle field to fight for their college life in three ways: by fighting against the academic difficulty, by fighting against the financial problem, and by fighting against the influence of personal pressure.
Commonly, college students have to put a lot of effort on their academic. The fact is that everyone is concerned about tests, quizzes, reports, research paper, and projects that need to be done and handed in on time according to the due date. Students worry that they might fail tests or they might not get up and be ready to go on time, and

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