is the first day of a minimum of 1.5 years of a long distance relationship… 

I’m putting on my hard hat.

Let’s do this.

I realize how happy I am I chose education has a degree. 

I get to talk to people…

Unlike the job I have this summer…

My feelings about it are, I am bored, but I don’t want to do anything today. Ehh 

Tonight my roommate and I went to the MSC to study and work on homework. When we were heading back to my car, I noticed the dorms that I once called home. This seems like only yesterday when I was crawling out of my parents van walking into my dorm room hoping to make friends and get along with my roommate, also thinking and hoping I have some cute boys on my floor. I was on Curran 3rd floor in room 310. I really didn’t think the time I spent in college would fly by as fast as what people were telling me. I really didn’t have much to worry about. And this is why I am making this list, because these days, sometimes I do wish I could go back and be a freshman. 18 years old, insecure, and far from being ready to step out into the real world. 

1. Freshmen don’t really have to worry about their futures: They take classes like English 101, US Government and the intro class for their major, if they have one picked out. The only things they really worry about is what house party are we going to hit up this weekend and what they want for dinner. They are not sitting at home figuring out internships and writing essays about why they want to go to this certain school to get their masters. 

2. Prime time for socializing: The dorms are a breeding ground for making friends (that is if you try). You walk down the hall and into someones room and you have something to do that night. Living in a house, with a certain amount of people is way different than living in the dorms. You actually have to try to see your friends. And if you don’t, you will inevitably have less.

3. Crazy times: Freshman year was full of crazy times for me. Not really the illegal stuff, but more of just doing crazy adventures with friends. I felt like we were more creative. We maybe thought it was still cool that we were completely on our own, no one telling us to do our homework or go to bed. I would stay up till 4 am in the morning because I could. I wouldn’t go to class because I didn’t have my parents telling me I had to. Freshman year was full of times like that.

4. No big life questions asked: You aren’t getting asked questions from your relatives or family friends or even parents like; What your plans are after you graduate? Or when are you graduating? You instead are getting questions like; Oh do you like your college so far? And what major have you decided to go with? 

I guess I am just a little bitter when I look at these freshmen and think to myself, they are where I was at 4 years ago when I didn’t think my graduation date would come and I didn’t have to think about my future job in the real world at all. I just was trying to figure out what major I should go for.

Freshmen students, you are lucky, very lucky. But just so you know, before you know it, you will be in my position and looking at the freshmen below you feeling the same way, sometimes wishing you could go back to being a carefree 18 year old.