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To The Girl That Didn't Have The Best First Semester

Don't worry, things will turn around.

Amelia Ramsey
Feb 07, 2017
University of Mississippi
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To The Girl That Didn't Have The Best First Semester
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I know you think you're alone, but you're not.

You left your hometown having big hopes and dreams that college would be amazing, and everything you had ever heard and hoped it to be. You set off thinking this is going to be the best four years of your life and it starts today. The first couple weeks go by and you begin to miss your friends, miss your family, miss your hometown, and you think to yourself "this isn't what I thought it would be like." Maybe you thought you wouldn't miss your family. Maybe you thought you were ready to get away from your hometown. Maybe you heard great stories from older people telling you how wonderful college is. Maybe you see other freshmen making friends with so many people, and you wonder why you haven't found your group of friends. Whatever it is, you begin to realize that some of these things aren't true, and you begin to doubt whatever is ahead in these next four years, and wonder how you'll ever make it through.

I know this seems scary.

Good news is, you have seven more semesters to turn that around. So what if you didn't meet your best friends in the first semester? You have a lot more time to do that, and it will happen. Begin to cherish the moments spent in your hometown with your friends and family there. Get in a routine at school to help you get through classes. Do what you have to do to make college the best it can be.

You have so much time to turn your college experience around and it starts with you being able to let go of that first semester and promise yourself that you'll have the best next 3 1/2 years!

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