My transition into college wasn't the smoothest. Physically it was fine, I moved in and set up camp nicely. But the emotional side of it all wasn't as easily done.
Let me start at the beginning.
The first day I arrived at Utah State University I came with my parents and my older brother and a whole lot of boxes. There wasn't an inch in the car to move around in because of how many boxes I had. Once we were parked we jumped out and went to the front desk area to grab my key card and get all the information I needed to start moving in.
I lucked out in the roommate category, I knew my roommate from high school and she's one of my best friends. So moving in to a brand new place didn't seem as scary seeing all her stuff there too. Once we had all the boxes moved from the car to my dorm room we headed out to get some food. My family has a tradition to go to Costa Vida when big events happen for anyone. For example, when it's someone's birthday we usually go to Costa Vida, if someone just graduated from anything we go to Costa Vida. If one of us accomplished a really hard task or assignment we go celebrate and cool off with the Costa Vida workers. Get the tradition yet? So on this day, after moving the baby of the family into college, of course we went to eat at Costa Vida and order our favorite meals.
After stuffing ourselves at Costa Vida we headed back to my dorm room. We said our goodbyes and took a Polaroid together then my family got back into the car and headed back home. I went back to my dorm room to find Emma (my roommate) was there already unpacking. While we unpacked we talked about what we were excited for and what we wanted to do with the new adventure we were jumping into. That made my emotions of just saying goodbye to my family a whole lot easier.
That night there were so many emotions running through my head. I was extremely excited to start college and be on my own for the first time. But I was also feeling extremely nervous of the unknown. I didn't know what was going to happen in the next couple months, I didn't know how hard my classes were going to be, or if I would make friends easily.
The unknown is always the scariest, and with college that's basically all it is.
So if you're just starting out, if you're filling out your applications and you have no idea what's going to happen to you, just take a breath and keep going. You aren't the only one feeling like that, EVERYONE is.
Keep reading, I'll help you feel normal again.
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