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Advice For My First Semester at ASU

If I could go back to my first semester at ASU and give myself a piece of advice it would be to work less so I could make it to professor's office hours, and create a solid study group. During my first semester I had to work in order to try to be able to pay off some of my ASU tuition, along with other things. However this impeded me from going to my professor's office hours. I was tremendously struggling with the material in most of my classes. Had I gone to my professor's office hours this would have also helped me create a sense of community at West. However my days just looked like, I go to work, I get out of work, I go to class, and straight from class, go home. Over the next semesters I tried to take a lighter work load but it wasn't until I received the TRAIN scholarship that I was able to truly cut down how many hours I worked and actually focus on my classes. The unfortunate thing is by then, I was already burned out, and I was finishing up my senior year. Crea