College and how I feel about it

Okay, so let's get down to the real business of college.

To be honest, when I started first, I kind of hated it. Shock horror. The thing I've been working towards for my entire academic career and it's not all its cracked up to be. I mean, it was tough. I was really homesick, I felt really lonely and I didn't really feel like I could talk to anyone about it. I really missed my family and felt somewhat alienated from my friends.

Let me put it this way, the people I thought I would be hanging out with in college, I don't. Of all my friends who came to Trinity, there's only one that I really hang out with on a consistent basis, maybe two. So yeah, it was difficult for the first few weeks. More than once I just wanted to pack up and go home and never come back.

But, I didn't.

I worked way to hard to get to this point and give up. Trinity was the only college I ever wanted to go to and nothing was going to ruin it for me. I'm not saying I forced myself to enjoy it or anything, I think I just opened myself up to it more. Sure, I still get homesick and yeah, I do feel lonely sometimes, but college has become a much more enjoyable place now. A few things helped this, firstly, getting to know people in my class, then the class rep training. Really though, if friends of mine hadn't of been there, Trinity would have been much tougher I think. It's nice to have someone to lean on, someone to have a laugh with without the whole 'new friendship' thing.

This week and late last week, I really had a change in my attitude to college and I know that lots of people struggle during the first few weeks, but I think if you get through that, it gets so much better. So yeah, if you're coming to college in the future, don't worry if you don't love it immediately, it takes time to adjust.

I love my course, I love meeting new people, I love the new independence. I'm miss my family something awful, but its all part of it really and yeah, college is great. Fin.