As you go to college, your college friends will say you get so much freedom. But your parents will say it’s not the type of freedom you think.
I’m here to tell you to listen to your parents. Please, listen to your parents. Yes, your friends are right too, but your parents are more right. Your parents have been through college. They’ve experienced it. The whole thing, whether it was two years, four years, medical school, graduate school, the list goes on and on.
I know what you’re thinking. You don’t have to live with your parents anymore, so you don’t have to live by their rules. A word of advice, live by some rules. It doesn’t have to be your parents’ rules, but give yourselves some rules, like a curfew. I still give myself one. You’ll realize that having a curfew in high school paid off. If you stay out late, then you are going to regret it the next day when you have to go to class.
You really don’t get the type of freedom you think you get. You gain so many responsibilities that you never thought you would have to do in college. You have to do your own laundry (everyone dreads laundry day), buy your own toilet paper (it sucks when you’re sitting on the toilet and see an empty roll) and clean up after yourself (yes, some people don’t know how to do that). Some people have to cook for themselves. So you might want to learn that skill ASAP.
The hardest one is getting out of bed every day and going to class. In high school, your alarm would go off and you would hit the snooze button multiple times, but eventually your mom would come in your room and say, “Honey. it’s time to get up.” Then you would grunt and say, "Just five more minutes!" In college you have to do that yourself, and it seems like the hardest thing in the world. There isn't "five more minutes" in college.
Another hard one is actually doing your class work on your own. We all know that our high school teachers held our hands the whole way through high school. Once you get to college, you really are on your own. A lot of professors don’t take up the homework, but you better do it so you understand the material and pass the class.
When you finally get to college, you’ll understand what your parents were talking about. You’ll understand why you had a curfew, why you had to do all those chores, and why you had to live by their rules. They were preparing you for the day when you finally leave the house. So please, please, please, listen to your parents and don’t think that you are going to have all the freedom you hoped for because you don’t even have half of it.
