My Thoughts on Starting College

I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but I move into to college tomorrow! It seems like graduation was just yesterday. Honestly, it seems like just yesterday my best friend and I were playing “house” during kindergarten recess haha. I’m so excited to start this chapter in my life, but I’m also pretty nervous. I thought I would make today’s post about my thoughts on starting college tomorrow.

I’m excited to make new friends. Friendships, more specifically quality friendships, are really important to me. I found it very hard to have those quality friendships that I wanted throughout high school. I had a small group of awesome girl friends, which was great, but a lot of people in high school were fake and/or full of drama. I wanted nothing to do with those type of people and that really put a damper on the whole friendship area of my life. During those four years, I learned that it was better to have a few really good friends than a lot of decent friends that I couldn’t trust. I’ve heard from a lot of people that it is so much easier to meet new people and make friends in college, and I’m really hoping that that is the case.

I’m excited to start working towards my future. Knowing that this is the first step I’m taking towards my future makes me want to put my all into all my classes and do the best that I can. I will use everything I learn in college in my career and in my life. I want to have a nice life, and this is my first step towards that.

I’m excited to learn more about myself. Throughout the next four years I will have so many opportunities to learn more about myself and what I really want out of my life. I will have a lot of decisions to make, and I will learn a lot of lessons from those decisions.

I’m excited for my faith to grow. Since I’m going to a Christian school, not only will there be a million different ways to get into the word and grow closer to God, but there will also be a lot of people who have the same beliefs and values as me. It will be awesome to have a group of people to get advice from, serve others with, talk to and just have fun with.

I’m nervous. There are so many things that I am nervous about that I’m just making this into one point. I’m nervous about being away from my home and my family. I’m nervous about meeting new people and forming new relationships. I’m nervous about my classes. I’m nervous about living with someone I’ve never met before. There are so many small things that scare me about going off to college, but I know that God will lead me and guide me, so I have no reason to be anxious or stressed.

I have many more thoughts about starting my life in college tomorrow, but I will stop with those four, so this post isn’t super long. Thanks for reading!