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Some of you may be graduating this spring and wondering what the rest of your life holds for you. If that is the case, the next year is full of many new beginnings. Some of you will choose to go on to college, others to the workforce.

 

Especially for those of you going to college, many parts of your life will change. College is very different from high school, especially if you choose to leave home. Freshman year brings new friends, and living and learning in a totally new environment. As the year begins, you move away from your parents and start to realize how much you really did depend on them. For many schools the year starts off with a week of freshman orientation. Here students sit through long speeches about the rules of the school and the school in general. In addition to this overload of information, you are introduced to many new people whose names you probably will not remember the next day. But you also meet many friends who will play a part in your college life. This is overwhelming, but it means so much in the long run. As classes begin, you wonder what you got yourself into. Many become homesick. But soon the first semester is over, and you are wondering where it went and thinking about the next three and a half years of your life. Then you realize that you are on your way there; there may have been many struggles, whether homesickness, roommates, or classes, but you survived one semester of college.  

 

Freshman year of college is probably one of the biggest changes in one’s life. After living at home for the past 18 or so years, you are on your own. As sad as this is for most of us, never again will you live in your parent’s house in the same way; from this point on, things are going to be different. If you do not have one already, at this point you will needed to find at least a summer job. Freshman year of college is full of many new beginnings that you will probably never forget and may influence much of the rest of your life.

 

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