High school was great while it lasted, but here we are a year later and it’s time to move on. For those of you who haven’t moved on, I genuinely feel bad for you. There is so much more to life than the same old petty high school drama and hanging with the same crowd you did in high school.

When high school began we all were in it together. Freshmen trying to learn the ways of how to survive what we have been told were the “best years of our life.” However, once it came to graduation we were supposed to go our separate ways and find who we are. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen for everyone. The drama we encountered in high school, still shouldn’t be following us a year later. It personally doesn’t phase me when you unfollow me on twitter or gossip about my life in group chats. It just makes me feel bad for you. It’s pathetic to be in the same routine you were in high school. I’m not saying to uproot your life and travel across the country for a college experience, but change is a good thing. You will never truly experience college without branching out and staying in the same close circle from high school. I’m not saying we have to completely alienate ourselves from the friends we made in high school, but it is time to make some new friends and move on with our lives.

College has been an eye-opening experience for me. I left the place I called home for the past 18 years and came to a place where I knew nobody. I’ve always been the girl who hates people, so imagine the surprise everyone had when I told them I had decided to rush. Little did I know then it was the best experience of my life. I made lifelong friends throughout the entire process. In doing so I didn’t completely cut off contact with my hometown friends, I just distanced myself. Quite frankly, that was the best thing I could’ve done from myself. Of course, I still have the same best friend who I still talk to at least once a week to give my life updates to and contemplate my quarter life crisis’ to, but it’s not the same. It’s different. A good kind of different. A different that makes me realize that since leaving high school I truly discovered who I am and I couldn’t be happier leaving high school me behind.

You are in college to better yourself as a person, experience new things and you'll never be able to do all of that if you let people from your past bother you. But at the end of the day, you are in college. You gotta let go of the past, open up to college. Otherwise, you'll be in the past for a while.