The Road to Success

Hey everyone,
     In this weeks blog I'll be talking about how to help your mentees make the transition into college a little easier. While reading this section I felt like a lot of what the reading was talking about, was also talking about how my first year went. One part of the reading that really stuck out in my mind was about the students situations it talked about. One was about a girl who played sports in high school and got a scholarship. When she went to college, here grades started to slip because in high school she always had someone on top of her making sure she had her homework etc done and she is having a hard time balancing her social life with her school life. I feel like this kind of applied to me because in high I always had my mom asking me about homework after I would get home from sports. Also our teachers were very considerate with our problem about being in sport. When I came to college, I had to make sure I was spending enough time studying and not on my social life and making sure I was getting my homework done on time.
     In the reading it also talked about how high school is different from college. To most of us that pretty much is a no brainer, but as a freshmen I can remember coming here all star-eyed and scared like a spooked bunny, not sure what to expect. Luckily for me, I was living with a hometown friend who was a senior and who was also a Hixson scholar. He really kind of took me under his wing and guided me and really helped me succeed my first year. He taught me good study methods that worked well for him and also was there to help me on other problems I had.
      During class when we were lead by our classmates, we talked a little about the Schlossberg Transition Theory. We also read about it it the reading. It talks about the 4 S's, Situation, Self, Support, and Strategies. As a mentor we can try to understand each students individual situation and offer our support and strategies to over come it, but we need to realize that even though me may "understand" we will never truly understand.
     When I become a mentor I hope I am able to do the best I can to help my students overcome their problem and hopefully take them under my wing and guide them has I was guided. Thanks for reading, Cory out.
 (the last part is now my sign off cause I thought it would be kind of cool haha)