How To Prepare For College As A Freshman
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To the future freshies Nervous for What Is To Come

Class of 2022 get ready!

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To the future freshies Nervous for What Is To Come

Coming away to college was the hardest thing in the world. I was so nervous and scared to leave everyone and everything I have ever known to start a new. When choosing colleges I wanted to be able to pick a school where I could start new and grow by myself. This was the hardest thing for me. My first few weeks of college I felt completely alone bouncing from friend to friend. Then I found my people. Looking back that irrational fear was just that irrational. Going to college was the best thing for me. I made friends that I feel closer to then the people I was friends with growing up. Not that I forgot about the people growing up.

Let me just tell you this. If you think senior year was fun just wait until college. College is a whole new world of fun. Yeah, you have to go out on your own and make new friends but that is the best part. One of my favorite things about college is that you have the ability to go out into the world and none of these people know about your past. In a way, it is a clean slate.

I promise you going away to college may not be easy but it is worth it. The best thing that I ever did for myself was come to college and go where no one else has been. I feel like as a person I have now grown so much since high school. Looking back at some of the people I graduated high school with and I feel like a lot of those people would not recognize the person I am today. Sure I am the same loud, happy person but there is so much depth and change underneath of that.

So to the people that are worried college is going to suck. It will not. No matter who you are or where you go you will thrive. Just give the school more of a chance then a semester. Make sure to follow your heart as well. When picking a major it can be extremely demeaning and upsetting to hear that "the only majors that matter are stem and accounting." No matter what major you are whether it is teaching or biology your major is equally as difficult and is equally as important. There is no such thing as a dead end major. If you try hard enough no matter what you do there is a whole world of opportunities out there waiting for you.

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