And it Ended as Quickly as it Started (College in a Nutshell)
Good Day to all Readers,
I have finally completed my freshman year of
college. If you’re thinking, “Wow! That
was fast,” you’re not alone, so am I.
College goes by really fast, but the rapidity of the experience does not
limit the lessons you will have learned by the time you exit the educational
institution. I learned a lot
academically, spiritually, health-wise, and generally about life. This is not to say that you will have the
answer to all of life’s hardest, most difficult questions after a single year
of college; however, you will most likely come out a tad more sure of yourself,
and confident due to the fact that you have just made a countless number of
serious decisions using your own judgment.
To anyone wondering about “the change” that happens to students after
the first year of college, I would say: don’t come out of your freshman year of
college expecting to be an entirely different person, but don’t expect to leave
the same way you came in. Maturity, like
many other valuable qualities of life, takes time.
College is a time of great opportunity for
everyone. Opportunities of every kind
are waiting to be pursued by students regardless of your major, background, or
personality type. Nervousness may loiter
around you for the next few months leading up to your big departure, but don’t
let it consume you. It can be stifling and
stop you from pursuing many great opportunities and life-changing experiences
such as joining clubs, going to events, forming friendships, and possibly even
challenging yourself academically.
Nervousness however, isn't something I would worry about too much. There’s something about being sent to live on
your own and suddenly make your own major life decisions that just rips
nervousness right out of you. Most of
the time you don’t even notice it’s gone until you go back to a place you
frequented before going off to college, like home, and realize that you react
differently to familiar situations.
As an introvert and a somewhat demure woman, I can
say that college has helped me to face daily situations all of kinds with more
confidence and strength realizing that with God by my side, I have already
overcome one of the biggest challenges of life, college. In a nutshell, college, like many other
things in life, is what you make it.
What do you want to get out of your collegiate experience?
With Yet Another
New Outlook on Life,
Unashamed Introvertish
Girl
p.s. I really like this song and thought it went along with the post, so I just threw it in here. Give it a listen, you'll probably like it!
