It's the beginning of your college career. You've gone through months of applications and paperwork, and you finally made the perfect choice! You show up on campus and the first few days are some of the best you've ever had, meeting all the people on your hall, figuring out all of your classes, enjoying the freedom that comes with being in college. However, a few weeks go by and you find yourself becoming somewhat lonely even though you have friends and struggling with the load of homework that seems to pile higher and higher each day. You start to wonder if you made the right choice about your college, and wonder if one of the other schools you were accepted into would've been a better choice for you. You start to consider transferring.

When I first started to consider where I wanted to go to college, I was adamant that I was going to attend St. Andrews University in Scotland. I went to all the info sessions and found all the paperwork I needed to fill out. By this point, I started to consider other schools just in case, and came across Trinity University, another school that piqued my interest. I filled out all the paperwork for Trinity, and before you know it I had been accepted! I had forgotten about my dream of going to St. Andrews as I was so excited to be attending Trinity, a school I had fallen in love with.

I arrived at Trinity as excited and scared as every other freshman. I had the time of my life for the first few weeks, but suddenly reality sunk in and I realized just how lonely, and how hard college can really be. I had some great friends and great classes, but the experience of moving to college can be tiring and scary, two feelings I had almost every single day. A few months in, I started wondering whether I had made the right choice. I started to wonder whether St. Andrews would've been the best choice for me, that I had just gone to Trinity because it was closer to home and I had been accepted already.

I started looking more and more into St. Andrews, and had serious thoughts about transferring and moving to the school that I originally fell in love with. However, I found myself becoming busier and busier with classes and my social life, and the thoughts of transferring seemed to fade away as I got lost in the Trinity world. I was happier now that I was constantly busy, and constantly had things to do and places to go. For a long time, transferring seemed to be the best answer, when really I just needed to be more involved and stop worrying so much.

Looking back, I am so happy I worked through those feelings and stayed at Trinity. It's an amazing school that I absolutely love. I am gaining real world knowledge and experiences that are going to help me with my future job. I have a great group of very close friends, and I love my professors and all the classes I have taken. Transition can be scary for everyone, and sometimes the easiest answer seems to be running away and changing things all over again. For some, transferring is really the answer, but for others, such as myself, sticking it out and working through the transition is the best thing to do.