So our first summer of college is almost over. We made it through our first year and maybe it was everything you wished for, or maybe it could've been better. Either way we did it! We are part of the college kids now, we are the millennials that many adults despise.
We figured out different ways to make easy mac, top ramen, and plain noodles taste way more delicious than we could ever imagine.
We confusingly wandered the campus looking like lost freshman (because that's who we were). But now we know. Well we know most of the right rooms, but now we have to find a few more different classrooms. A perk of being a sophomore means that we get to watch the new freshman squirm just as we did, it's "school nature."
We figured out what the professor scene was like, who were the best and worst to take. We had that one professor who grades easy, yet didn't learn enough as we wanted to. Maybe we are challenging ourselves this year and taking on a hard professor because we have faith in ourselves (silly us).
We figured out how to live with someone we had barely met, 7 feet away from us. We learned how to deal with their cleaning habits, and how to possibly make ours better. We got in fights over them coming home late, or you having your boyfriend over too often. Either you hated your freshman year roommates or loved them.
We got a taste of the food, and maybe we worked our ways into adding those chicken strips to a salad to avoid that Freshman 15. Either way, we definitely figured out what to eat and what to completely avoid this coming semester.
We learned how to live without our family. How to fend for ourselves and to make decisions without them. We learned how to manage our money and make good (or bad) decisions. As scary as it is, we are beginning to learn how to be adults and the first year is our first step into adulthood.
Finally, we found friends, college friends who may be a grade or two older than us. Because being friends with a 21 year old when you're 19 is not odd at all in college. And although we may still be close with our old high school buddies, no one will compare to the mates you have in college. Like they said, college is supposed to be the best years of your life, so obviously you plan to spend those years with some of the best people you'll meet.
Class of 2019, you've done one year so far, and whether it was good or bad, you learned from it. One year down, 3 more to go. Make them good ones and appreciate them, because these are the best years of your lives.
