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How College Has Made Me Grow Up

I hate it because I want to stay a kid forever

Erica Fluskey
Sep 26, 2017
Rhode Island College
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I never realized how quickly you grow up once you enter college. Being away from my parents showed me how much they’ve done for me (which I’m so grateful for) but it also showed me how much more independent and self advocating I have to be if I want to survive in college.

In college you have ultimate freedom, which could be a very scary thing. I have so much freedom that sometimes I don’t know what to do with it. Going to college was a great decision though. Having all this freedom has given me so much responsibilites and has matured me more than I could have ever imagined. When ever I have a problem, big or small, I have to take it upon myself and figure out how to solve it. Of course when I was at home I would always ask my parents for advice and they would give me way to solve it, but I’m a college student now and have to find ways to do things on my own. Which is super challenging might I add considering I am the worst problem solver in the northern hemisphere.

I have grown up more in the past 3 weeks more than I’ve had in the past 18 years, and that’s all thanks to college. In college you become an adult (which I hate because if I had it my way I would be a kid forever) which is super scary because I never thought I would be able to do half these things I’m doing right now, but I’m doing it and I’m surviving day by day.

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