Without fail, every time you bring up that you're in college you will hear the words "college will be the best years of your life."
I'm here to tell you that college is average at best.
You'll make lifelong friends, you'll lose a few pals, you'll learn a lot (more outside of the classroom), but overall college will just be another chapter in your book.
For some of us, it might be a whole new book because it's just filled with that much stuff. College is great for almost everyone, but a lot of times we just see the surface. We don't see that struggle to pull our grades up. We don't see that battle between choosing to ask parents for money or just not eating. We cover our eyes on the bad parts because it's easier.
College forces a lot of people to realize that sometimes it's easier to just say life is good than it is to be honest.
People will tell you that it will be the best four years of your life and yes, many of the memories you will make honestly probably will be the best memories you could ever have. But people forget the small bumps in the road that ruin college for almost everyone.
The small bumps like - going to get your oil change and being treated like a kindergartener, going to the post office and accidentally grabbing the wrong package and getting yelled at, having professors mark down your grade just because you missed one class.
And honestly, not everyone forgets them they just leave them out when they're telling you how fabulous college is. Your mind is one 500 different things and the second you mess up it's so obvious because you get chewed out be almost every single person in your life.
You're going to love it, but at the same time, you're going to hate it so much.
You actually will learn to find joy in the small things. You'll learn how to be kind because so many people won't be kind to you. If you're lucky you'll realize that your high school problems were very small, but if you see a high schooler complaining you'll know better than to put them down for it.
So soak it all in. Enjoy the moments you can, but don't be surprised when you end up realizing that college is not all it's cracked up to be.