Finance U: LFLA's College and Career Blog

Jeremiah, Class of 2018, shares his advice on fighting the urge to procrastinate. In high school, many people, such as myself, pick up a bad habit that can ruin any sense of productivity and motivation, from assignments to just even showing up for class. This bad habit this addiction to just not care, to turn a blind eye to whatever is calling for your attention to complete. Being on your phone in class or listening to music and going to sleep if note taking is too boring and doesn’t feel as though it should matter. It’s easier to just be selfish with what you want to do and not to do in this day and age, and it can hurt you.  Deciding that it’s easier to ignore things life in general you need to have done can cause lots of stressing moments everyone who does it, and it will often have you wish that you had done it when you had the chance. The best thing you can attempt to do in order to avoid making difficult situations for yourself is to pace yourself, it may sound simple; an...

Justin, Class of 2018, explains how to keep your grades up.        Keeping up with grades will be one of, if not, the most vital thing you will have to maintain throughout your career in school. When your grades are kept up, not only are you passing, but you also get a feeling of achievement in the end. Of course, when you care about your grades, you will end up stressing. Then again, the stress will be worth it, considering that you are stressing for a good reason.        If you are someone like me who has a lot on their plate, making sure your grades are kept up might feel like the least of your worries. Having that mindset, however, does not make anything better. I remember during the second and third quarters of 2017 (March to October), I ended up going through a deep depression. It felt as if things would never go right in the heat of the moment.        There was a lot going on during those months, but the main thi...