From the second I opened my acceptance letter to Saint Mary's I could not wait to start college. Now don't get me wrong, I am loving college. I love learning, I love being a part of the Notre Dame games, and I love being independent. But here's the thing that got me: I was expecting to automatically bond with everyone, I was expecting to become best friends with my roommates, and I was expecting it to be easy.

The friend making process was a lot harder for me than I thought. Part of that was probably because I stayed in my room a lot, but even when I left the comfy walls of my dorm room I struggled to connect with others. I went to the dining hall alone a lot and even when I sat with others I did not feel like they wanted me to be there. So I just kept sitting alone. It was not until about three weeks into the first semester that I finally found a friend to go to the dining hall with and to take impromptu Eddy Street trips to get Chipotle.

Freshman year is the worst year for roommates. You're thrown into a whole new living situation with complete strangers. When you have such high expectations that you're going to bond with your roommates and that doesn't happen, it's a little disappointing. Plus being the odd one out in a triple was not the best experience I've had.

This may sound crazy but I was expecting college to be easy. After two weeks of catching the same awful sickness everyone else on campus has, I can tell you it is not easy. There were so many times over these past two weeks where I physically could not get up to go to class because my body was so sick, but I knew I had to force myself to at least go to a few classes. The feeling of non-stop coughing when you're trying to focus in a college class is probably the worst feeling ever.

I am loving the college experience but it was not nearly what I was expecting. However, I am still trying to stay positive and enjoy every experience as they come to me.