Growing up, at least for me, most people couldn’t wait to get out of high school. I was more than ready to figure out what the next chapter of my life was going to entail and where I was going to go. People started touring colleges as early as their freshman year of high school and didn’t stop taking those ACT’s until their scores were perfect to get into those schools. Everyone was just ready to go to the next step, and everything in high school was trying to get you to move forward to that next step.

Of course, I choose to go to a school that was over seven hours away from where I was from and that no one else from my school was attending. I thought it was the best idea ever, I was so over high school. High school was too much drama, cattiness and people needed to branch out. If you are in high school reading this or were in high school you have probably experienced the same things. My parents went to school far away from their hometowns, so they told me I would be more than fine handling the transition, and I was never that much of a homebody so Alabama seemed like the perfect fit.

Well, the first month passes, and I was thinking I wanted to transfer and go to a school closer to home, I didn't know anyone at this school and I felt far away from everyone back home. I told myself I would give it until Thanksgiving and then talk to my parents about it. Thank goodness I waited until Thanksgiving because I met the people that I currently live with and are some of my best friends until this day. They helped me find my place and really branch out of my comfort zone way more than I ever would have imagined. Yes, I could have played it safe and gone back home but I stayed and got the greatest reward of some of the best friends you could ask for and a great support system at that. They are like an extended family that I didn't even feel like I was missing my family at home.

So yes going to college far away is always going to be a transition. Going to school anywhere is a transition. You have to look at it in the right way and give it time to find your happiness at that place, otherwise, you could be missing out on some great things right in front of you. You just sometimes have to tough it out as my dad would say to get to the good part.