First day jitters are a real thing. All through elementary school, I would get so nervous for the first day of school. It was a new class with a new teacher and even some new students. It was very scary. Then it came time to switch to middle school. So now not only was I getting new teachers, new classes and new students, It was a new building also. This was so frightening. It was a new experience and switching classrooms between subject terrified me. By the time high school came, I was pretty used to being nervous on the first day. It felt silly to be nervous. I knew the people in my classes. I had my friends. For the most part, I knew my teachers. But here I was still anxious to start the new year.

I then got through high school and was ready to start college. Starting college was so frightening. Going to a school where I really did know zero people and having to be an hour and a half away from my mom? The nervousness was real. I had to live with someone I barely knew. I did not know how I was even going to survive. Even after years of first days, I was still nervous. How could that be?

After my first (and second) days of classes happened I got to thinking about it. It was an anxious and excited feeling being able to start school to do what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: teach. The first day no longer seemed so scary when I realized that I was going to have at least 40 more of them being a teacher. It was actually a nice feeling. I felt like I had my life together and it felt great to be able to get over my first day of school jitters.

As a junior, I woke up on the first day this week. I was anxious. But it was not a bad anxious. I was full of excitement, (good) nerves and coffee. I was ecstatic to start this new year and start my adventure on this downhill slope of my college career. I am so excited to start school and realize I get to wake up one time a year and help little children conquer their first days of school too.

It gives me sympathy for all the young ones who will be entering my classroom. Some of them it will be their first time in a classroom. I cannot wait to show them all school has to offer. I want them to know that first day jitters will eventually go away. Even as a college student, the jitters happen. They may happen every single first day for you. But as a teacher, know your professors and teachers just want the best for you and they will always be their for you even through the jitters. The first day is always the worst, but it will get better. That is a promise.