13 Things You’ve Learned by the End of Your 1st Semester

Your freshman year of college is a year of firsts in every sense. On your own, you learn a lot about yourself, your world, and the people all around you. Some realizations were harder than others, but you’re sure by the end of that first semester, that your life is always gonna be a little different from here on out.

13.Vegetables are your friend.

Those first couple weeks, you binged on the pizza and French fries in the dining hall like everyone else. You realized soon after when your jeans were a little snugger, that the freshman fifteen is not a myth after all. It’s better to eat a salad every now and then: you’ll thank yourself later on when you don’t feel like a ball of grease with legs.

12. You didn’t thank your mom enough.

It was probably when you shrunk everything in the dryer for the first time, or when you can’t find where you left your shoes, or maybe when you just needed a good cry and your mom wasn’t down the hall. You never realized how great a hug from your mom is until she isn’t there. Who knew she was right the whole time: you really did need her

11. You won’t keep in touch with all the people you thought you would.

After graduation, you hugged everyone goodbye and promised that you’d skype weekly and send each other drunk texts every weekend. By the end of your first semester, however, you realize that you only texted that girl in your math class once and you never heard a word from that guy you sat with at lunch senior year. It’s okay that you grow apart from people: they can’t all come along for the ride.

10. College is like… a lot of work.

You can laugh at your past self now for thinking that you were prepared for college the college workload. On the nights at 4am when you don’t remember the last time you looked up from the paper you’re writing, you realize how totally unprepared you were. You know you never worked this hard in high school, and you’re realizing how much you’re capable of when you actually apply yourself.next

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