As I begin my college career, I have quickly realized why college kids often feel the way they do. There is so much pressure for us young adults to be nearly perfect and balance everything precisely the way someone else believes we should.

They're all wrong about you and me.

There is no right way to do college, while I would have to add that in my opinion receiving a signed piece of paper is my end goal, it doesn't have to be everyone. This stress to be perfect or do everything one specific way can be so burdening. I am only in my second week of college and already struggling to keep up with the many responsibilities of living by myself, being away from family as well as the obvious, school.

And while these are my most immediate responsibilities as soon as I add something on top of it, I am only adding to my stress but also my college experience.

Through my last week of school, many of my friend as well as myself have experienced rejection from fraternities or sororities as well as many other ways. And as a loving friend my heart hurts for these beautiful people that I could never reject. And as I have experienced, the stress of being judged to make friends was a painful experience. As an overachiever I have very rarely felt the sense of rejection and it was an awful feeling. No one should have to feel like their 100% true self is anything but accepted and beautiful.

I was an excruciating process for me and my friends but I have grown so much in the last week. To realize that someone else's opinion of me does not, in fact, affect my own personal value is an incredible realization.

College is hard, but don't let anyone else make it any harder for you. Know your worth before you give someone a chance for you to question it.