You’ll move into your dorm and actually have to talk to your brand-new roommate for the first time. This may be incredibly awkward, or not awkward at all. It depends how lucky you got with that roommate lottery!
Additionally, you’ll want to be friends with everyone on your floor right away, in search of the perfect groupie.
At first, you’ll feel like you have so much free time. Don’tworry; this changes.
You will also have the pleasure of experiencing communal bathrooms.
Within the first three weeks of school, you will lose your ID. This is a rite of passage for all freshmen. You will be in panic-mode until a kind stranger returns it to you.
Soon enough, you’ve got a lot of assignments piling up that you procrastinated. It’s time to head for your soon-to-be favorite place on campus: the library.
You’ll have really great days at college, and then some days where all you want to do is call your parents because you miss them.
As you prepare for midterms (so soon?!), you try to keep calm and figure they won’t be that difficult.
In the midst of the stress, you’re incredibly thankful for study breaks filled with pizza and ice cream. You deserve it.
Before you know it, it’s a week before midterms and you suddenly feel as if the 30 hours of studying you did aren’t enough.
Halfway through the week, your professor drops a huge paper due that Friday.
Your roommate will be reassuring and suggest you should go out during the weekend to relax and recharge after such a busy week.
You finish your essay like a boss and leave your last class on Friday stoked for the weekend’s festivities.
And this will be you on Sunday morning as you remember your first exam is Monday morning.
Of course, you’ll work harder than ever before and it will all pay off in the end!
With first semester under your belt, you come back in January ready to finish strong. You're focused on your academics and your degree, but know that college is also about fostering beautiful relationships that will last a lifetime.
Time will fly as you make millions of memories. Before you know it, it’s finals season. This is also around the time where your meal plan is incredibly low and you will accept any and all donations.
As you approach the end of the year, you’ll walk out of your last final thinking you’re absolutely ready to move out and begin your summer vacation.
In reality, you know you’re going to miss college an awful lot until you start again in the fall.
Your first year taught you many things. You learned about time management, how to live with another person (or several), the best place to eat pizza in your college town, and everything in between. Even though you have no clue what the next three years have in store for you, remember these inspirational words by Leslie Knope:
