How the first year of college changed me.

My first year of college has been fun...

However, College is a huge step from your high school year to the college life. College changes you for the better. Being far away from home and not being able to see your parents every day like you use too, makes you become more independent.

Once you learn how to become independent, then your 4 years of  college would seem like its flying by.

College is terrifying in a way because now that your first year is over, you just have three more years then you’re an adult paying bills and going to work and trying to be stable in life. Yet, Reality doesn’t kick in until move in day your first year of college. My whole high school years I was always thinking about going to college. Then when the 4 years of high school passes by you realize your standing on stage about to get your diploma, then reality starts to set in.

 But, college changes you as a whole let me tell you why….

 Your intellectual interests and valued friendships change as a result of your personal development through the college years. Being able to manage your emotions, time, friendships, homework, relaxation, partying, and being able to eat is sometimes difficult. Too much of one can make you fall off with another. I feel like a college is a weighing scale where you have to weigh everything out so your taking care yourself and making sure that you don’t have any mental break downs as well, because they become very common in college.

Mental breakdowns as well as home sickness are things college students go through but we get through it.

When you’re in college your interest change, the people you hang around you change and you soon realize that you only have about 1-4 best friends in college that actually are your “best friends”. Then you have the ones in your hometown that are upset that they are seeing a change in you but you don’t see it.

You start to see that you call your parents more then you ever did. Many are so quick to get away from their parents but then when you’re in college, you miss them so much and how they used to always be there for you physically and emotionally.

After your freshman year, it’s like getting over a huge hill because after that college becomes more easy to cope with some people don’t make it over this hill but that’s how college tests you, your ability to go into a new environment and be able to become independent and to become an adult. 

My first year of college has changed me and will continue to mold me through out the remaining years.