If you knew me in high school you would not recognize the person I am today. If you are a part of my life now you would not recognize me if you met my high school self. In two short years college has changed me immensely, not only has it made me smarter (I hope) it has made me a completely different person and for the better.
My high school self was one that even standing at six feet tall wanted to blend into the crowd and not be noticed. My goal was to not be known by many and sort of just skate by, making as little of an impact as possible. If I do say so myself; I did a fairly good job at going unnoticed. Don’t get me wrong, I had friends, and people knew of me, but not many people knew the outside of school me. The loud, sarcastic, love to make people laugh, me. But I was fine with that. Despite knowing some of these people since I was five; I knew graduation day would be the last day I would ever see these people. So to me, I did not care what they thought of me, or how boring they thought I was. In high school I was not one to talk in my classes, if I was positive I knew the answer I would maybe raise my hand but other than that I just kept to myself. As I said I wanted to go unnoticed.
However, college has changed me. College has taught me more things about myself than ever before like how I am extremely extroverted and can not very long by myself or I go a little insane. It has given me friendships that are deeper and stronger than I have had before. But because of these deeper friendships, it has given me more conflict between my friends and has taught me to address conflict as soon as possible. College has taught me to be my loud, sarcastic self and to embrace it. College has taught me to have a great deal of self-confidence, I am comfortable with who I am and am not afraid to show my true self. College has taught me that who I am is beautiful. College has been the best decision of my life.
