Content warning, this podcast contains explicit language. From the Daily Northwestern, I'm Anita Lee. This is Digital Diaries, a weekly podcast following the college experience and asking students a question about life in Northwestern. Welcome to the second episode of season two.
This week's question is, if you could travel back in time to one year ago, what advice would you give your younger self? Weinberg Jr. Anjani Golsman says she would tell her past self to set better boundaries. Only surround yourself with people who reciprocate your energy.
When you first get to college, especially in person, you might be disillusioned by the possibility of finding love. Bear that in mind. In other words, fuck situationships, don't get into one. But Golsman says her advice applies to non-romantic relationships too.
I feel like college students sometimes we force ourselves to be in situations where we're probably not totally comfortable, just because we're scared of not having friends or scared of being judged. Don't let that happen to you. Weinberg's talk more Aali's late, learn to find happiness from within. I came from a boarding school, so I was just from this small environment where you see everyone every day.
It was really hard because in Northwestern where you have to plan stuff, I felt like enjoying myself with the biggest thing that I'm teaching myself. One of the biggest surprises for Slade was how long it took to feel comfortable in a new environment. I feel like I'm just an identical person. I still like the end of the spring quarter.
That was the biggest shock for me because I just felt like I just don't like it here. But then I realized I like it here, I just did well enough. As for communication sophomore Gabriela Burgos, she would tell herself to reach out for academic health. I got help from professors because I thought it would be scary and that they wouldn't help.
But every time I'm a professor, I got to office hours, it's been so kind and it's a little scary at first, but once you go out there for you. Burgos learned this lesson last quarter when she was behind in her Italian class and attended her professors office hours. I started explaining something and I think I even started tearing up. I was emotional.
You said, it's all really weird to help you and then he started helping me do the work and explaining it to me like we were in class. One year ago, Weinberg's senior Dylan Sarosa had just dropped the pre-med route and was still deciding his post-grad career plans. I was pretty confused about that and I think that brought me a lot of stress. So I would tell myself that, it's going to be all right.
You're going to figure things out. You're not going to have to clean his path, but things will work out for you. Even though Sarosa is still deciding on his post-grad plans, he said that gaining more self-confidence has helped him find peace in that certainty. It took me a while to come along to the idea that I had self-efficacy and I could actually achieve things.
Once I realized I had more potential than I thought I did, that made me realize that no matter what I've already grown a lot and that I have the capabilities with any of the implement changes that I can pursue and that will lead me to have a happy life. From the Daily Northwestern, I'm Anita Lee. Thanks for listening to another episode of Digital Diaries. This episode was reported and produced by me.
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