Sunday, December 2, 2007
How has your life changed during this semester of college?
After our first semester of college I'm sure a lot has changed in everyone's lives. It was the first semester living away from home. This puts a lot of responsibilities on ourselves like managing our money, time management doing laundry, buying food, doing school work. How have you handled these responsibilities? What us the hardest part of bring in college? What is the easiest part of being in college? Also how has your relationship with your family changed? Have your parents been treating you more like an adult? How so? Finally, there are a lot of benefits of living at home but what is the one thing that you miss the most about living at home?
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These responbilities come natural to me, because at a young age i was responsible for things like wahsing clothes, buying food, and anything else that needed to be done. The hardest thing about college is time management. There are so much other things around that makes a person lose focus on things that suppose to be done. Also the work at times because the school I came from did not fully prepare me for things like this. For example mostly every test that I had in high school were open book and open notes so at times I felt I didn't need to study because I was going to use the book and my notes anyway, right? The easiest thing about college is being able to do what you want and when you want. It's like feeling that you are grown and you know you have alot of responsiblities but you do as you please without answering to anyone but yourself. My relationship with my mother has changed alot because I am the youngest and the first in the entire family to go to college. I help my mother with a lot of things so when I left it seemed as if she had no help at all any more, when I left so along did she. My mother will call me everyday saying how much she miss me and want me to come back home and sometime I do want to go back but I have to do what makes me happy. I miss my family too. My mother has always treated me as an adult because she knows that I am very responsible. The one thing I miss about being at home is my bed.
I also have been responsible since I was young. I have been doing laundry, paying for my own things, and managing my time. So I have handlled the responsibilies very well. The hardest part of college for me has been keeping in touch with my friends and family. Everyone has different schedules which makes it hard to communicate with them. I would say the easiest part has been adapting to living on my own because I have been waiting to move out for a while. The things I miss most about living at home are having my job that worked around my schedule, being with my family and having homecooked meals.
I have dealt with these responsiblities ever since high school. If I wanted to buy something I used my money from my job to buy what I wanted. My mom is a single mother and she doesn't make much so I do all I can to help her out and make her life less stressful. The hardest part about being in college has been the seperation from my friends. I come from a very small town so the friends that I associate with have been with me since 1st grade. Keeping in touch has proven to be way more difficult then I originally thought. The easiest part of being in college is making friends and meeting new people, especially in the dorms. My relationship with my mom is stronger than it has ever been because she is starting to treat me like an adult and understand that I need to do certain things in my life in order to be happy. I miss spending time with my mom and my little dog Angel most of all.
My relationship with my parents and family has seemed to worsen due to me going to college because they seem to think that without them looking over my shoulder every second that I'm going to screw up my life. I like being away from them though, college is turning out to be great and classes are pretty much the same as the classes I took at my community college so that's not any different
At first I freaked out, but I have everything under control now. At first I was trying to work two jobs and with the uncertainty of college, I was going crazy. After a couple of weeks, I figured out a schedule that worked for me. I really enjoy college now and it's alot of fun. As far as my parents go, I get along with them alot better. I don't really miss living at home, but I do miss the people from my hometown and my church. The hardest part of college is the tests and the easiest is the homework. I like college, it's fun.
I have adjusted pretty well. The hardest part is studying for tests. The easiest part is meeting new people. As bad as it sounds I miss my drum set a lot because I only get to play on it twice a week.
For me, I dont really think that college has changed me a lot. I've always been the responsible child in the family, so it just made managing my time and what not in college easier on me. I think my college experience is a little different than others though because I commute. So the things I stress about and the experiences I have are probably different from those in a dorm. I think for me the easiest thing about college was the freedom. I am very organized and I know what works for me, so the freedom came as a relief because I dont have to have people baby me like they do in high school. The hardest part though was the amount of studying. Now I have to actually read the book and study. In high school I would cut corners and just study a little the night before a test. So forcing myself to study is hard at times.
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