My Freshman Year

            Before I came to college I was extremely excited to leave high school and start new.  During my senior year I looked forward to meeting new people and experiencing a new life in college.  I knew it would be very hard for me to leave all of my best friends and my family but I knew it would have to happen eventually.  Most of my friends went away to college also so I knew I wasn’t the only one leaving.  I never thought in a million years I would be homesick until I got dropped off at college for move in day.  This was a complete shock to me! The transition from high school to college was more difficult that I thought it would be.  The teachers are very different and they don’t treat you like a baby like I was used to.  This is good and bad in different ways.  This helped me learn how to read directions and pay attention rather than my high school teachers going over everything slowly.  For the first two weeks I was very homesick and made my dad go crazy.  I begged for him to let me come home, but he told me to stick it out for the first semester.  As I started to adjust to the transition, everything seemed to get a lot easier and I became less homesick each day.  I made a lot of new friends here, which made it a lot easier to get over being homesick.  Now when I look back to when I was begging my dad to come home I laugh because now I can’t imagine myself being home.  I would be so bored at home and would regret leaving here very much.  Being in college gives you much more freedom but it takes some time to learn how to manage your time with schoolwork.  Although I have to deal with my dad saying, “told you so” I’m very happy I listened to him and gave it a shot.  This is a huge step in everyone’s life and to not get the full experience of living alone and being independent would be a huge mistake.