As incoming college freshman finish up their last couple weeks of high school, they realize things will drastically change and a new journey will begin. No more Friday night lights, no more pep rallies, no more seeing the same friends you might have known since elementary school every day. It will be a new challenge, one without your parents over your shoulder keeping you straight and making sure your finished your homework or registered for the SAT. A journey where you will have to take things into your own hands and face your biggest fear growing up. A journey that can take you to new heights. A journey that can form friendships that could last a lifetime. The journey starts the minute you cross that stage and receive your high school diploma and start the many tasks to getting accepted, moved in and ready for the fist day of classes at college.

Everything seems to go into overdrive; one day you are graduating high school the next you're at your first college orientation, finding out what dorm you will be staying in and who your roommate will be. The same journey that can take you through every emotion in just one week. In this journey, you will learn more about yourself in a couple weeks than you did in thirteen years of grade school. You will also make friends who will be dealing with some of the same issues you will be going through yourself. They will be your greatest asset and the same ones you go on wild adventures with at night. Yes, this new journey will be scary at first but in time you will embrace it and have some of the best times of your life. Cherish these moments because in a flash this journey will be over and a new one will begin in the real world.

This journey will make you question yourself and cause you to panic in those moments. All you have to do is remember that everything will be OK and bad things do not last. Remember that it's just a phase and it will pass.Yes, this is a scary journey, but so was going from elementary to middle school and middle school to high school.

We all take these journeys, but we get accustomed to them and make the most of them having as much fun along the way. Sometimes the journeys we make shape us for the rest of our lives. We may not be able to see the future but if you go on this new journey with a positive mindset nothing but good things will come from it.