An unyielding job hunt teaches you what’s important to you in your work life, personal life, employer, financial needs, and overall life satisfaction. I earned these lessons with months of applications, calls, interviews, rejections, and offers; I hope that by sharing these takeaways with you, you might be able to better guide your own job search and get a head start in thinking about what truly makes a job a good fit.
While starting college is a new and exciting experience for incoming students, it is natural for them to be concerned about challenging classes, costs, time management, living away from home, meeting new people, and living in a different lifestyle in general. With all of the normal anxiety that incoming freshmen experience, it is natural for them to wonder how they can make the most of their college experience.
Living in a college dorm can be a thrilling experience for students. Having your own space or sharing one with a roommate all while being close to everything on campus sounds fantastic. Many incoming students, however, struggle to answer one question: “How should I decorate my college dorm?”
For incoming students, one of my recommendations is to understand the true scale of Saint Leo University’s Main Campus by taking time to walk around the area to better navigate the campus in the future.
Although we all have been stuck with a horrible professor at some point in time, most of us have also encountered good professors—those professors who go above and beyond, effectively teach the material, and are open to change.
What makes a good student? It’s not just good attendance, on-time work, and polite behavior. When you think about it, these are really just the expected basics—the makings of a good student go beyond that.
There’s nothing more bitter than hindsight, something that we upperclassmen in college are unfortunately very aware of. Therefore, it is our duty as upperclassmen to inform our underclassmen—especially freshmen—of the dos and don’ts of college to help them make the most of their college experience.
Everyone gives this piece of advice, but try your best to get involved around campus. A little plug, but working with The Lions Pride Media Group is a lot of fun and there are a lot of awesome people who work within it.
remember in my first swim practice with the team at Saint Leo University, a senior swimmer told me, “Enjoy every second, because in a day you will be applying to jobs and leaving college,” and here I am, writing a piece of advice, looking for jobs, with an overwhelming uncertainty that I do not wish on any person.
Now that my time at Saint Leo is almost over, I reflect on everything that I have learned which I plan to take with me to the Bahamas where I will begin my professional career as a journalist and eventually become a novelist.
