First Blog Post Ever – Back to School for Round Two
Well as my title suggests, this will be the first time I’ve ever blogged before. I was really honored when asked to do a blog for the Widener Website being only a freshman, and I knew that many people who are seniors in high school and deciding where to attend college would be reading this – I know that I read students’ blogs when I was applying. For those reasons, I hope to provide all of my readers with good insight on what it is like to go to Widener.
At first, the transition into college was a little tough. It was unlike anything I had ever experienced, as it is for many other people. Moving into a foreign territory and sharing a room with a stranger is very weird at first, but at some point you realize that everyone else is going through the same experience as you. In my first few days I met at least 100 people that I had never spoken to before in my life and friendships began sprouting like wildfire. This was completely different from high school! For me, living in a new area wasn’t the hardest difficulty to overcome – it was adjusting to a new way of life – and that happens no matter what school you go to.
The awkwardness subsided after about a week for me, especially after I had walked around the campus a few times and began to familiarize myself with the area. It was also easier to get settled in once classes began. Actually having something to do frees your mind from thinking about the change that you are undergoing. Before you know it, you start calling your dorm room “home,” hanging out with your new friends as if they were your buddies forever, and thanking yourself for choosing the school that you did. But even though I’ve gotten so used to living here, there’s still no place like home.
So my first semester went extremely well – I earned a 4.0, landing me on the Dean’s List for the semester! I have to say that I found it easier to concentrate on work at college than it had been in high school. Your future seems so much closer and more realistic than that vision you had back in high school. Now school is back in session for spring 2009 and I hope to continue what I have been doing thus far. I will be writing again soon to update and continue to give others a glimpse of what life is like here at Widener.
