To continue on the train of my last article that wasn’t my usual format, I am here to keep the same energy for this week! :D
This summer, @theestallion announced via her social platforms that it was a verified Hot Girl Summer. Since then, a wave of young adults have declared themselves official Hot Girl Summer participants. According to Meg, this meant spending your summer “just being you, just having fun. It’s turning up, driving the boat and not giving a damn about what nobody’s saying.” She also noted (rather importantly) that we need to “chase the bag” and “we ain’t crying over no man PERIOD.”
….And we heard her loud! and! clear!
Accept now it’s time to bring that same energy into the semester. This semester, we have goals:
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Put our selves first!
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Secure the bag
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Have fun
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No crying over men
Aside from those main goals- we also have a much more studious one… get those grades up.
The most important things we need to carry with us home for Christmas break are our As and Bs. Even if you aren’t going home- keep those As and Bs for when you need to prove to someone (or yourself) that you CAN do it.
For me, this means dedicating a lot of hours to my school work. When I was a first-year at Wells, I began my first semester thinking I would easily be able to keep my grades up while maintaining a strong social life- and maybe some people can easily do this! However, this was not the case for me. Over the past two years, I’ve secured a somewhat stable grasp on what it means to earn grades.
For me, this means basically living (no, I’m not joking) in the library. When I’m not in class or the dining hall, I’m almost always at the library.
Enough about me though, this article is for you. If nothing else, I want you to walk away from this article remembering to enter your first, second, third, or fourth year of college wanting to do academically your best, and emotionally your best.
If this means for you to spend more time at your professor’s office hours, I say go for it. If it means to spend less time on social media as a distraction or spend more time reviewing vocab, I say go for it.
Let this be your best semester! Speak it into existence. As Meg would say, this is your #HotGirlSemester. Soak it all up and live through it. :)