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Welcome To Your Fresh Start: College

The best four years of your 20s.

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Welcome To Your Fresh Start: College
Sara Keane

College, it's new, it's exciting, it's nothing like high school. You have been anticipating this day for weeks, for months, for years. It's so exciting and new. It's like a whole new world that you just found out about, the best-kept secret of all time. Finally, you're an adult (well an almost-adult). You're ready for this, you've been waiting for this, this is going to be so much better than high school. Trust me young one, college is so much better than high school.

When you finally make it through the prison that is high school, you reach an unprecedented level of freedom. The adults around you begin to see you as more responsible, reliable, self-sufficient person. They no longer look at you and see a child (although your parents might be the one exception). Suddenly you go from having constant parental supervision, to living in a building with no adults (or if you commute, spending endless hours at school between and after classes with no one telling you what to do). College is the pinnacle of freedom.

College is the chance to find yourself. College is a whole new start, it's a chance to find yourself, to be who you truly want to be. In college no one really knows you, it's not the same people from high school, you are not expected to be the same person you were in high school. You can literally become anyone you want to be. it's the chance to just be yourself. The teachers don't even know you yet. It's a chance to make a name for yourself. College is the fresh start.

The first year is hard, it's stressful, but it's better than all four years of high school combined. College is the first chance of real freedom. College is a fresh start at being whoever you want to be. College is a chance to find yourself. College is the start of the best years of your 20's.

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