Nearly two years into university 

The Spring 2025 semester has reached its midway point finally. In all honesty, it feels strange that we are already this far into the semester. In some of my classes, it already feels as if we are reaching the end of the semester when it’s only the midpoint. Either way though, this means that I am slowly, but surely, approaching the end of my sophomore year. 

It kind of used to freak me out considering how I am soon to be more than halfway through my college experience. 

Now though, I’m confident enough that by the time I’m out of college I will be ready to start working my dream jobs. 

Over the past year and half I’ve spent in college, I feel as if I’ve learned a lot, not just in terms of my major, but about myself and of college life itself. I can confidently say that I’m not the same person I was when I came into college, at least not entirely the same. 

In terms of campus stuff, I can say that being here for nearly two years and living on campus has given me a pretty decent memory of the layout of the college for sure. 

I used to be kinda worried about how I might find my way to classes and make it to class on time, but now I’ve managed to get a pretty decent layout on where to go and how long it takes to get from place to place. Despite having the layout down in my memory, there are many buildings which I don’t recognize the names of. 

As much as I enjoy having memorized the layout of campus though, it does come with one issue. As a result, the campus lost the wonder in my mind it once had. When I first attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, I always enjoyed going outside and walking about campus, mainly around the swamp. 

Now though, walking around campus no longer holds the same feeling of wonder. I’ve become so used to all the different buildings and areas that it just feels normal. The swamp is still a beautiful place, but I rarely visit it now due to work, so I only ever truly see it in passing. Going from place to place became more of a task rather than a feeling of exploration. 

As strange of a feeling this is though, it is only natural. Once you get used to a place it makes sense that it would start to become boring after a while. Even though this is the case, I don’t think that makes the campus any less fantastical. I still enjoy looking around when the flowers start to bloom. My view of the campus is not the only thing though that has changed over the course of my time here. I became more extroverted and started to hang out with people more, as well as become more outward about the things I enjoy, like “One Piece”. Then there is also my own workflow that has begun to change. 

During the beginning of my college life, I used to be a bit more honed in my homework. 

I would walk around outside some days to help me think, other times I might just sit in my dorm listening to music until I got struck with an idea. 

As time went on, however, I began to procrastinate a lot. My belief is that the work just kinda got to me. 

Having spent most of high school trying to keep up straight A’s just wore out my brain and so once work began to pick up in college my standard procrastination just started to become worse and worse. I began to hit what felt like a burnout. 

This level of procrastination would end up becoming so bad that I would end up staying up nearly an entire night working on a project literally the night before it was due. 

Despite this, I always managed to turn everything in on time and come out with a good grade. This went on for a long time, occasionally I would try working on stuff early but it never truly would last long. 

For me, this would remain a constant up until about a week ago when my luck finally caught up with me. I was working on a project last minute and in the end I had to turn in a slightly unfinished project. 

After this moment it struck me, I truly felt that surge of motivation I needed to finally put a stop to my procrastination habit. 

Still, I can’t fully say that my procrastination has stopped yet. After all, due to my ADHD, it is inevitable that at times I will procrastinate. 

I can say though that my level of procrastination has begun to change. I’ve been trying my best to make sure to get projects and homework done as soon as I am able to, rather than waiting till the night before like usual. 

The curve of my procrastination habit is probably one of the biggest changes I’ve experienced over my time as a student at UL Lafayette, and I’m looking forward to the rest of my time here and seeing how much I will change as a person. Hopefully by the time I graduate, my procrastination habit will be a thing of the past. 

That, however, is something I shall have to wait and see.