Make education your priority

By D.J. Ochoa

Summer is over. As students at Pima Community College, we all know what that means: a new semester is upon us, bringing glorious hours of late-night study sessions and stressing over exams.

With a clean sheet for a new semester, why not start on the right track? Make education the top priority in your life instead of putting it on the back burner.

It might be difficult at first, but trust me: when you finally start taking your education seriously, the semester will fly by and your transcript will be filled with good grades.

I myself had a hard time making school one of my top priorities. I was always a slacker when it came to my education. To this day, I kind of still am — waiting until the last minute to turn in assignments, worrying about studying for a big test and not working to my full potential.

I’ve received good grades in all my classes, never lower than a C. But, there was always a voice in the back of my head that said, “If you had studied harder, you could have gotten a better grade” or “Yeah, a B is all right but an A is better.”

This semester, I am determined to quiet that voice in the back of my head once and for all, and make this semester at Pima better than the rest.

You should do the same. We pay an enormous amount of money to attend this school, so we might as well work hard to see our money go to a good cause.

When there are no more exams to stress over and you walk across that stage to receive your college diploma, you’ll finally know it was all worth it.