College saved my life in more ways than one. It helped me get over the long ongoing hurdle of what I call high school. There was never actually a time that I liked school. In pre-school, some boy used to tear up my drawings. In elementary school, every girl in my grade didn’t like me and spent most of their time picking on me. It wasn’t a great time in my life. I never really fit in.

In high school I wasn’t bullied nor did boys rip up my drawings anymore. It was something way different. High school was made out of groups and stupid cliques. I was constantly trying to find somewhere I could firmly plant my feet. I was a girl who floated. I was known by all and liked by all. I, of course, had some who didn’t like me but that was very few. I always got labeled as that ‘really sweet funny girl’, which is great! Don’t get me wrong I loved that people thought I was funny and it's built into my body to care about every living, breathing thing on this earth. That’s one of the faults in my personality. But I just never fit like everyone else did. I wasn’t the one being invited places or invited to parties. My group of friends would come back from the weekend and tell me everything they did with their group of friends.

I didn’t mind it. It didn’t really bother me until my senior year of high school. I think I completely lost it and told my mom I needed to drop out of school or so help me god! She begged and cried for days at a time to stay, that I didn’t have much left and things would be so much different after I graduated.

I dragged those words around for the rest of the year, and come June 22, I took my tassel and moved it to the right. Right off the bat, I felt so relieved. Not only would I start to be happy again I was able to go and be a doctor. College has done nothing but bring smiles and joy to my life. I love doing my work, and I love going to school. It is so much different than high school. You meet new friends with the same major as you. You just get along so much better with these people so much better than anyone you’ve ever met before. I’m ready to set sail on a long journey and see where life takes me.