Set goals that can be attained and work your butt off to check those goals off one by one. And in the end you will be happy and you will have a firm grasp on reality. In the eighth grade, a science teacher of mine, whom I respected very much, put a sign up to cover the clock in the classroom. Some of the students were anxious to leave class every day, and when they saw that the class was winding down to the end of the hour, they commenced packing up their things to leave. This witty little phrase really hits the nail on the head.
Kids grow up today wanting an easy way out of everything.
They don't want to stick around for the few important facts that a well-learned teacher has to tell them at the end of class. They would much rather sprint to their locker to talk to their buddies, or race to the courts during recess to make sure they get chosen for a good pickup ball game. It's the same way in college. We can come to school and discipline ourselves for less than one fifth of our entire lives thus far, and try to make something of ourselves. There are tons of students at GSU who are simply delaying the inevitable.