First Year Wrap Up
1:00:00 PM
First I’ll start off by saying, I have written and rewritten
this post so many times before deciding that it’s okay to send it out into the
internet world for you all to lay your eyes on. Second, this is entirely my
opinion based on my own experience, it does not and probably will not be the
same as yours.
As many of you know, I have recently finished up my first
year of college. A lot of people are asking “How did you find it?” “Was it fun?”
Let’s do a quick recap first shall we?
The summer before my
first year was incredible, I spent almost every weekend with my friends at
their graduation parties, sitting around a fire until late at night. I took a
trip to New York City, you can read the post about my favorite restaurant here.
Before I knew it, it was time for school again. A lot of my friends who I had
been hanging out with during the summer were packing up and moving away to four
year universities. There were a few who decided not to go at all and take a
year off to work.
I had decided to go
to a two year university. It was a good choice, save money, get acclimated to
college life before throwing myself into completely unknown territory. My
parents wouldn’t have to fret over me being so far away the first year. I still
had expectations, as every student does during their first year. It’s a new
school, you’ll meet a lot of people, make new friends. That sort of happened…but
not really. I think I made one friend. It’s different going to a two year
college where the majority live at home and commute to class and most of the
students have grown up and just graduated high school with each other.
The
first semester was great, I didn’t have to wake up at 5am anymore, so that was
really nice. The teachers were pleasant. Though I was not prepared for how long
the homework would take. None of my friends really kept in touch by the time
the second semester rolled around. We did get together during the holidays when
everyone came home. They shared stories about their roommates and meals and
events, me? I had no exciting tales to tell. Other than that one kid in Spanish
class who told a girl she was “retarded” for asking a question. I was appalled.
The thing with my friends coming back that put me off was that they would ask
the generic, “How is your semester going?” and you’d tell them, but they would
stop listening in the middle of it and move on. I felt I had been shrugged off
for not going to a big university like they had, whether they had meant to do
that or not.
The professors in college were alright, I mean I guess it’s
the same with everything you get a good one and you can get a bad one. One
teacher told me that I hadn’t done well on a previous test and that even if I
tried I probably wouldn’t make it. The next day was the test, and I would like
to point out I got a B on that one. I still felt upset that a teacher would say
that. Don’t try, it won’t be good enough. Yea you get paid anyway. I told my
advisor I have anxiety and she said “I don’t want you to feel anxious or freak
out, but 80% of kids in this class don’t make it.” Yea okay thanks for the
uplifting encouragement. I do want to say I really did like walking into class. I thought it was pretty.
My school isn't called "Park" it's actually next to a big park!
I was excited about second semester, because after this one
it’s summer! And who doesn’t love Summer? Unless you’re a vampire or something then
I guess you wouldn’t like it. I had thoughts of “Why do I need college?” “What
does a taking a test on factoring have to do with anything?” “When will I need
to know how to do all of this fancy math stuff if my major isn’t anything to do
with math?!” I don’t like math can you tell? I totally disagree that you need
to spend time and money learning something you don’t need. Is it to make us
more “rounded?” because if that’s it. Then what the hell was high school for?
I constantly had to remind myself that I’m doing this to
study abroad. I have to do this to get a job, a good one and when I get a good
job I can buy more dogs and I can live in England on a patch of green field and
watch those dogs run around and have all the tea I want.
The year ended with a
sigh of relief that it was finally over. I know that this isn’t everyone’s same
experience, and it’s totally unique to me. All of my friends, even some who
stayed in town and went to the same school I did had a great time and met a lot
of people. I am going off to a bigger University next semester and now I am
only one step closer to getting to England. (and I cannot wait to write that
blog post when the time comes!)
So with all of that being said, I really hope it goes much
better than this year did. There will be blog posts about packing and moving
and things that come with that later on.
Do any of you go to Uni/College? What was your first year
like?
If you’re not in Uni/College and you’re worried about the
fact that you can’t figure out something to study or major in…DO NOT worry. Try
classes that you think look fun and I promise you’ll find something to do
eventually.
Xx
Sorry this was so long. There will be more exciting blog posts because..ITS OFFICIALLY SUMMER FOR ME !!!!
Kenzie
p.s here's a cute picture of Sadie just because.
2 comments
I'm glad you kept focused and motivated life really changes at this point, I'm 29 so kinda been there done that and yet life is in constant change mode, the only thing to do is embrace all the changes and have tons of fun, fit it in somewhere.
ReplyDeleteMeg | Meghan Silva's Blog
Hi! I'm happy you found a reason to keep going, a pretty good reason haha I wish I can live in England one day too!
ReplyDeleteI kind of can relate to some of the things you said actually but it's fine now I guess. Anyway, hope next school year can be better! But now it's summer so just have fun haha
Anna xx
Thanks for commenting! I really appreciate and can't wait to hear from you again!