College can be so intimidating the very first year. You are transitioning from high school, where you spent years learning about who you were as a teenager, to college where you will spend years learning about who you are as a young, independent adult. Such a drastic change of environment can be daunting for many students.
However, even though it may seem scary at times, college can actually be a blessing in disguise. Those four years provide you with times where you are able to evaluate different areas of your life. You have the freedom to experiment with new things which you have never tried or have always wanted to try. This freedom can be abused sometimes, seeing as how college freshman do not necessarily know how to properly use their new found freedom away from their parents’ supervision.
Freshman year may seem like it lasts forever, seeing as how you are making new friends, forming new study habits, and discovering new things about yourself. However, like most good things, the year must come to an end. The day comes when you unpack the dorm room you have spent over half of a year living in. You are finally done with your first college exams and interacting with the professors who seemed to make the year just a little bit more difficult for you. Though that may be the case, it is the hard classes with which you struggled that make you a smarter and wiser student in the end.
Remember that, although freshman year may have been difficult at times, overall it was a worthwhile experience you will remember throughout the rest of your college career.
