Just last week, I finished my first year at college and let me tell you, what an experience it was! I made so many new friends, learned a lot of new things and had an amazing time! It took some time to get used to living on my own, but it got easier as time passed. One hard part, for me, about being at college was not being able to see my family everyday, and being a very family oriented person, it was a little difficult, but I made it work.
Living on-campus for my freshman year is a decision I will never regret. It made my first year at college a million times better because of my awesome roommate and neighbors. To anyone thinking of whether to live on-campus or not, I would say do it, you really get the full college experience. Living on campus had brought me a lot of diversity, and I loved it! There were people from so many different places and people with different ethnicities and religions. It was an awesome experience to be able to live with so many different people.
There were so many new things I learned this past year. Not just academically, but also about others, and especially myself as a person. After living with my family for 18 years, I was finally going to live on my own, something that had me both excited and nervous. I wasn’t going to have my parents or siblings there for me when I needed something. I was going to be on my own, having to figure things out for myself, not having anyone there for me.
To say that this last year was a great year would be an understatement. My first year at college was such an amazing experience! There are things that happened this last year I will never forget! It was truly an amazing year with amazing people. My friends weren’t the only people who made this last year great, I also had some great professors that definitely made this last year better.
Growing up, I was always nervous that my college professors were going to be really strict and mean. Pretty stereotypical, I know. But let me tell you, they were not like that at all. I don’t know if I just got lucky, or if all of the professors at my school are the same, but I had some pretty amazing and awesome professors. This by far was one of the major things that made my first year at college that much better.
There’s one thing I’m sad about though, and that is, how fast the year went by. I still remember checking in for football, and meeting my roommate for the first time, and moving all of my stuff into my dorm. I’m really going to miss all the great times I had this year, I will never forget some of the things that happened this last year. I cannot wait for my next year at college to start!
