Moving, in general, is an ordeal. Heavy boxes, cleaning the new space and changing your address are common difficulties faced when moving to a new place. However, when you move from state to state, there's so much more involved.

Depending on whether you're moving a few miles away to a new state or 500 miles away like I did, you might not have friends and family to help you out. Whether that means you hire a moving company or try to do it all yourself, moving is tricky especially when furniture is involved.

Instead of just filling out a form from the post office to change your address, you have to change everything that has your state. That includes license, car registration and taxes.

For me, the license was the hardest part because not only is going to the DMV itself a hassle, I had to take a North Carolina road signs test (I passed) to make sure I could drive in the state.

Although I have attended college in North Carolina for a full year now, there are still some differences out of students face when they move to the state permanently. For example, it is now acceptable to say "y’all" in every day sentences because I’m an official resident, not just a poseur from the north trying to fit in with southern living. You might actually have the full four seasons or are lucky enough to have just summer weather.

Either way, it’s a bit of a culture shock. You leave behind the oddities that make your home state special like pop versus soda, hoagie versus club versus hero. You begin to appreciate how much those little things meant and embrace the new quirks that make this current state home. Missing what makes your last state special is pretty normal. I crave Wawa hoagies all the time and the nearest one is a state over from me.

Moving from one state to another is tricky, especially for college students. For many, this is the first time they are having a space all their own that isn’t a dorm room. You probably won't go home every school break, now that you have to make the trek across states to visit. It will get lonely, being states away from family or friends, but when you do go home, it'll feel amazing.

There's so much that happens when you move to a new state. Adapting to a new environment is something everyone who moves will experience. It could be a radical change like city living in New York to a farm in Kansas or something simple like moving from Baltimore to Richmond. Whatever the reason for moving to a new state, it is certainly stressful but once everything is sorted out, you'll be just fine.