Essay On Adjusting To University Life

Adjusting to University Life

Yearly, thousands of young adults and every so often older adults enter their first year of university. Students ascend with not much knowledge of what to expect; a new world of freedom is presented to them. Many students find it more difficult than others to adjust to university life, with this said many factors contribute to how easily one adjusts to university and its surrounding components. There are three main components that I’ll be focusing, factors that should be primarily considered when trying to make the transition to university for fluid. Self-Support (self-esteem) adjustment, social support, emotional adjustment and academic adjustment plays the biggest roles in ensuring that new students’ transition is as easy and least stressful as possible. (Friedlander, Reid, Shupak, & Cribbie, 2007) Ways in which these factors interlink will guide one to ways in which this problem can be addressed and hopefully make the adjustment of future students’ first year experience more memorable and not as stressful and anxiety ridden.

First, and foremost, the most important factor that should be addressed is the

Combining self-esteem, social support and academic adjustment allows for the different factors to interlink; with an interlink taking place each factor can depend on one another where they are lacking in certain aspects. In order to make the adjustment to university life more fluid, students should themselves be ready to experience change and make use of the opportunities given to them that could improve their experience of university. As well as students taking charge of opportunities given to them, universities should consider ways that they can strengthen and better the programmes offered to students to make the transition smooth and