Butler Resources

In my case study, there is a girl named Jessica who is 18. She just started her first semester at Butler and had a ton of things going on in her life right now. Her and her boyfriend had recently broken up after a very long relationship. She thought they were going to have a wonderful future together. Everything she does reminds her of him and she's going crazy. Her parents have just told her that they are getting divorced. About two weeks ago, she started feeling like she was getting the flu. Everything seems to make her sick. One night while doing some research for her Marriage and Family class, she ran across some information about pregnancy. She started reading about it and immediately started worrying. She thinks she may be pregnant. I've thought about it and she has a few resources that are available to her here at Butler or around El Dorado. First, she has the library databases. She can get on there and find a wide variety of information about pregnancy. She can find the beginning symptoms of pregnancy. She also has counselors here at Butler that she can talk to about things and that could maybe give her some information or point her in the direction of help. Here in El Dorado, there is an organization set up that is similar to Planned Parenthood in Wichita. She can go there and get checked out and find out for sure if she really is pregnant. The can do some tests on her and make sure that there is nothing seriously wrong. If she really is pregnant I'm sure that they would have some very good information for her and some other options for her to look into.

Time Management

Time management skills are a very important skill that everyone should posses. I personally have many things that I have to manage. I have classes and volleyball practice everyday. If I manage my time poorly I will have to run extra in practice and if I'm late to work, I might get fired. On top of that I work two jobs. I want to make time for social events as well. This isn't all that hard for me to do though because I have inherited many good time management skills from my parents. My mom has very good time management. She is very busy. I remember when she had to manage three kids and a job. Now that all the kids are pretty much grown, she still has to manage her time wisely. I feel that I have recieved some of her techniques. Some of the things that I do that I have learned from my parents are to always be on time or early. Now if I am on time I feel late. I like to have plenty of time to be prepared for class, practice, or work. Another thing that my mom uses to manage her time is that she always has a list of things that she needs to get done. She also makes a list of things that she needs for something in a week or two. She plans ahead. I find myself doing the same things. I write down my schedule for the day or I estimate how long things will take so I make sure that I have time to accomplish all the things I need to for the day. When I make my lists, I make sure that I have plenty of time to finish all the things that are the most important and then if I have more time at the end then I can do the extra things. I can also use these things to help me manage my money as well. I can make a list of all the expenses for the week and see how much money I will have to work with. All these techniques are very simple and don't take much time, so everyone can do them.

One change that I have gone through recently is actually leaving for college to play a college sport. Moving away from home was a totally different experience. I have never lived in an apartment before. Now, I have a room mate to share my room with. Also, playing a college sport is very different than playing high school sports. I have to play with a whole new group of girls that I had never met before. Learning to adapt to how everyone plays can be very difficult at times. In high school, everyone had grown up playing with each other and knew how everybody on the court played. Another important part of my newly discovered college life is having to have a atleast a 3.5 or higher to get an extra $1000 to put towards my schooling. Students that are not playing sports can still earn $500 as long as they have a 3.0 to 3.5. That doesn't apply to me though since I'm in a sport. My grades in high school were never that big of an issue. I didn't have to worry about getting a certain GPA. Since I could use the extra money, like most college students, I am having to be a lot more focused on my school work. College is also more stressful. Being involved in a sport is very time consuming. We have class in the mornings, then practices in the afternoons, then I also have 2 campus jobs. After I'm finished working I go back to my apartment and finish my homework and get ready for bed. The next day I do the same thing. Therefore, college is more stressful and time consuming, thus causing more stress. One way that college makes this just a little less stressful is having a schedule that has classes only every other day insead of everyday like in high school. So, if you happen to have some extra time one night you can work on homework that might not be due for another day. This will help take off stress that will be occumulated from the days' busy schedule.

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