I was around four years old the first time my parents talked to me about college. It was kind of one of those mystical types of things where I had no idea what it truly was. Older high school kids would come and work with the students at my elementary school and they would talk to the teachers about where they were off to for school the next year. I knew that college was some scary and yet awesome place that existed in some type of land far far away and yet I had no true idea what or when I would be venturing off for that place, just that I was going to go. In the end, venturing off was possibly the best decision I’ve ever made for myself.

College was always one of those things where there were many different endings and many different outcomes and none of which had any sort of actuality in my mind. I was scared and excited and didn’t know what would come of a large chunk of four years of my life. What I knew would come was going to college. Attending classes and paying what seemed far too much to attend a school where I possibly knew nobody. What I’ve found out is going to college and moving away from home was possibly the greatest decision I’ve ever made in my life. I do not think I would be the person I am today without the decisions I have made up until this point in my life - and if I had to do it all over again and re-choose, my decision would not change one single bit.

Now I’m enrolled in college, and it so far has been one of the greatest times of my life thus far. Every single day is something new and an adventure unto its own. I’ve learned to put myself out there and talk to people. To be adventurous and spontaneous with my everyday life, and to try to be a young adult and live life. I’ve ventured out of the town I’ve known my entire life, I’ve met new people, done new things and created an entire new life outside of the one I had back in the town I grew up in. I’d like to think I’ve grown up, and with that that I've grown into a much more mature and sure of myself person than what I was in high school. I’ve ran off and done new things and made friends with people that I wouldn’t even know existed if I hadn’t left the bubble that was my old life.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is, no matter where you go, or what school you choose, college will be what you make of it. Go out, try new things, live life and learn from your mistakes as you go. I guess the fun part of the adventure of life is not being sure and yet going out and figuring everything out for yourself. That’s why it’s called an adventure.