5. Friends from home that call just to ask how you are, are worth keeping around.
Those friends that you manage to keep around through the distance, time constraints, and busy schedules, are friends worth having. On hard days when you spent half an hour on the phone with your friends from home, everything felt a little better afterwards. It’s hard to maintain these friendships, but it made you realize how important they are to you.
4. You understand now what all the hype was about.
For years you heard the kids in grades above you brag about how cool college was, and whether you were thrilled or terrified, you appreciate the great things about it too. Some people don’t get the opportunity to do this, and you’re grateful for all the memories you’re already making here.
3. It’s okay to cry into a textbook sometimes.
It’s okay to lay down, face-first in your textbooks in the middle of a Starbucks. You realize pretty quickly that everyone else has been there a time or two before themselves. If anything, you know it’s a sign that you’re working really hard, even if you need to give up and lay in bed for two hours afterwards.
2. Your hometown wasn’t as bad as you thought it was.
Homesickness is a real thing, and there were definitely nights that you called home in tears because you missed your bed and your dog and your mom’s cooking. You found yourself missing the boring nights that your friends sat around, complaining that there was nothing to do. Your hometown is your comfort zone, and you miss being comfy sometimes.
1.They were right when they said, “you figure out who you are in college.”
Sure, it’s only been a few months since you planted your feet somewhere without your parents and your friends and your old, familiar surroundings. But in those few months, you’ve learned more than you thought you would, and you feel like you have a better grip on who you are now. Your first semester of college brings out the best and the worst in you, you’ve come to realize, and chances are that it’s going to have a big impact on who you are one day.
