At the beginning of this week, I went to my college gym for the first time. This is something I had wanted to do all of last semester, but the fear of not knowing how to use the gym equipment held me back. I was worried I would look like a fool.
So, Monday rolled around and I went to the gym after class. To enter the gym, you have to swipe your ID. Of course when I swiped my ID, the swipe thing didn’t work because I had to fill out a waiver. I knew it wasn’t that big of a deal, but my anxiety levels were already so high and I just wanted to seamlessly enter the gym without attracting any unnecessary attention to myself.
Everyone has trouble adjusting to college for so any different reasons. People struggle with a whole range of changes from moving away from home to adapting to the difficulty of the college courses. For me, the hardest part of starting college was making friends.
Bottom line, change is hard for everyone.
So enough of introduction, here’s things I didn’t know about college: