In the meantime , I'll be working as a paralegal , a couple of job opportunities lined up and I'm excited to get out there . A friend of mine works for some pro athletes out there , so it'd be a good chance to meet some pros , run some pros , and see what their life is like and kind of live through them vicariously as far as how to balance academic scheduling sports . For me , I'm in a year round sport .
It was hard . I was , it was late nights of studying when I should be sleeping to rest and it was skipping out on hanging out with friends to study and do the work . As long as I got the coursework done and I passed my classes , I got a higher grade , I thought I was proud of myself and I thought I was achieving things my family wanted me to do , uh , being a first generation college student , and as soon as I was finished in these classes , I slowly , slowly tapered off .
So now I'm like , my last semester is just treating it like a pro athlete . I'm hanging out , going to 11 or two easy classes , enjoying an internship where I learn how to do , do things I'm going to do in the real world , get paid a little bit . So I kind of treat it more like on the pro athlete side of things , but it's about , uh , it was about getting it done early for me and getting it , getting through it .
For me , my first couple of years , I really trucked forward my before I even got here when I was in high school , I finished up my full freshman year of classes . And my first semester I decided I'd take 18 credits , so I just powered through . It was hard .
As long as I got the coursework done and I passed my classes , I got a higher grade , I thought I was proud of myself and I thought I was achieving things my family wanted me to do , uh , being a first generation college student , and as soon as I was finished in these classes , I slowly , slowly tapered off . Now that I'm a senior , I finished up all my hard classes . I did my senior stuff last year .
