If you're like me, then your first week as a freshman college student could have gone a little smoother. Perhaps it was my near-death experience of a long-boarder almost crashing into me at high speed, or emailing the wrong professor multiple times about how I was lost and couldn't find the classroom for "his" 8 AM class, even though it wasn't actually until 12:30 in the afternoon. It also could have been walking one mile to the gym only to find out that it closed a half hour before. Maybe your first week was even worse than mine. But no matter how bad that first week was, I can assure you it gets better.

Missing home is normal, and so is being afraid to make new friends all over again but that shouldn't stop you from at least trying. Pretty soon, you'll have people that will run through the campus sprinklers at one AM with you, or maybe even be willing to stay up all night playing games in someone's dorm, and you'll realize that college isn't half bad. Sure, you'll eat a lot of ramen noodles and Easy-Mac, but that isn't necessarily an awful thing either. After all, noodles and mac n' cheese are delicious. Homework can be overbearing but we're all in the same boat. More often than not, my roommates and I get distracted easily from our daily assignments and end up filming each other on Snapchat dancing to Christmas music. While "All I Want for Christmas is you" by Mariah Carey is an absolute jam, at the end of the day, we regain focus and get our work done. I've realized the freedom of college to be able to decide whether to do your homework or to go to BINGO or your school's trivia night, BINGO and trivia night is always the answer, as long as you don't miss any due-dates. Now I'm not trying to ridicule anyone about college because I've only been here for a week and a half, but these are some of the things I've picked up on.

So, even though I almost ended up in the hospital, on the verge of possibly getting kicked out of a class because I missed the first day, and had a head-start to my "freshman 15", I think that with some help from good friends and interesting professors, I'm going to be just fine here at Bridgewater State University.