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Freshman Year, Here I Come
By Darra Clark
Article provided by iHigh.com
Okay,
so it's the end of July. I'm working, hanging out with
my friends, and slowly having a month-long panic attack.
As the mail piles up in my room about housing and accepting
my financial aid and not bringing halogen lamps, I'm
beginning to believe I've stepped into an alternate
dimension. That's right, I'm preparing for my freshman
year of college, and trust me, it's a scary thing.
I think one of the best quotes I've ever heard regarding
the transition from high school to college came from
Jared Hall, a rising sophomore at Transylvania University:
"It's like taking you're whole life, throwing it up
in the air, and hoping it lands alright." As far as
I can tell, the graduates I know who are going off to
places like Kenyon, Cornell, Stanford, Rice, Eckerd,
and Arizona State, are all stuck in the air, flapping
and trying not to break anything. Sarah Troyer, a graduate
from Lexington, Ky., who's off to the University of
Cincinnati, sums it up pretty well: "It's really exciting,
but it's the scariest thing ever. I still don't think
of it as real. I keep thinking that the first day of
school will come and I'll go back to (my high school)."
That surreal feeling seems to be ever-present as far
as the entire high school-college transition goes. Packing
her suitcase, Laura, also of Kentucky, said, "You see,
I'm packing away all my clothes and books, but I'm not
ACTUALLY going anywhere. College is just imaginary,
and I will not actually move across the country from
everyone I know."
Perhaps it's just that which makes the entire transition
seem so foreign. For many graduates, going off to college
means leaving everything and everyone which is familiar
to live in a new place, take hard classes, fill out
forms to try and get the money they need for books and
food and hope to survive
Of course, leaving everything and everyone is not the
ONLY thing which helps mess with one's mind. There are,
of course, the maddening amounts of shopping to be done.
Alison, soon to study at the College of Charleston, lamented,
"I think I've spent $800, shopped myself into delirium,
and I still don't have everything." You create list upon
list upon list of things you need, realize that if you
buy them all before you leave, you'll have no way to take
them out with you, and go into a panic at four in the
morning when you realize "I can't take the study lamp
I bought! It's a halogen lamp! It'll catch fire and it's
banned in the dorm and oh my god I must go buy a brand
new lamp right now!" It's definitely a maddening thing,
like stepping onto a wildly fast carousel with no idea
that the music was specially designed to mess you up even
further.
At the moment, my friends and I are still somewhat
calm and together: we've still got another week or two
before any of us leave!
Article
provided by iHigh.com
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