What a Change

Starting college is like going to a new world. The people are different, the classes are different, and the expectations are different. I'm not with the people that I have grown up with for the past thirteen years. I'm not with the teachers that inspired me to do my best and to always work hard. Now I am with a bunch of strangers it feels like. I am missing all of my teachers and my friends and all of the facility at my high school. Its true what they say; "you don't know what you have until its gone." I am trying so hard to keep up with all of my classes and understand the work that I'm meant to be doing but the stress of it all is starting to take its effect. I'm used to having a teacher explain everything to me; the assignment, the lesson, and the material. Now it is like you (the student) are expected to be your own teacher. You are expected to know things that you don't. The expectations are way higher and the stress is at its max. I hoping it will get easier and things will start making sense. College is nothing like I thought it would be. I hope I can hang in there. I guess I only have to keep telling my myself, "only four more years." Good luck to everyone who is starting college.