It’s crazy to think I started college a year ago. I was brimming with so much anxiety and dread. Just like most major life events, college is idealized in the media. College websites show happy students studying in the grass. Movies portray college life as one huge party with drugs, bad decisions, etc. I just didn’t didn’t know what to expect.
I can’t believe I’ve officially finished my first year of college. It’s crazy to think that just a year ago, I was still in high school heading towards my college education with little excitement. I really hated high school, like really really hated it. I would sit in my car before the bell rang and just stare at the school, dreading my time there. I know it sounds dramatic, but I’ve just never been a fan of school. Prior to my first semester, I figured that I would probably hate college just as much.
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: