College goes by really fast. Somehow, I've already made it through two years, who let that happen? With so much happening all the time, it's sometimes hard to realize how much you've changed (I promise, changing is a good thing!) Here are some things that I learned after stumbling through the first half of my college experience

1. You're going to be homesick sometimes, but home is always just a FaceTime call away, and time moves surprisingly quickly, you'll be home again soon.

2. It's normal not to feel like you have a home sometimes, it's weird being home, it's weird being at school.

3. This feeling is normal, and everyone around you is also experiencing it, despite appearances.

4. Your mom becomes your best friend when you're not at home to bicker all the time.

5. You really start to get the hang of campus, knowing what times are busy, which places to avoid, which classes can be scheduled back to back, and when you function the best in class and when you should schedule your breaks.

6. Getting through lower div prereqs is kind of annoying, but so worth it when you get to what you're interested in.

7. 8 a.m.'s are as hard as everyone tells you they'll be.

8. But sometimes, they're unavoidable and you just push through it, with the help of a couple cups of coffee.

9. It seems like everyone everywhere is doing a lot, but focus on what you can handle and what will make you happy.

10. It's easy to over commit yourself and try to take on too much, just be involved in a couple things and devote yourself to them.

11. Cooking isn't as hard as you think, but it's going to be a while before you're as good as your parents.

12. Going grocery shopping on your own is fun until you get home and realize you have a bunch of random ingredients that can't really form a meal.

13. Sometimes, you're going to have $10 to your name, no matter how much you thought you budgeted, and laying on your bed and crying until your next paycheck is free.

14. Sometimes, you might have a bad test, but you don't need to let it get you down, most things are recoverable, and a lot of professors love to see a trend of improvement.

15. You're still young, and you're going to make a lot of mistakes, feeling like you're drowning sometimes is normal, but I promise you're not and things will continue like they're supposed to.

16. Office hours are actually pretty helpful when you can drag yourself to them.

17. The friends you make in college are some of the best friends you'll ever have.

18. But the friends you keep from home are still really special to you, and your No. 1 support system.

19. It's okay to still not really have a definitive plan for the future, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do.

20. College goes by super fast! Two years can pass by in what feels like the blink of an eye. How am I halfway done?