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Mar 31, 2021

Being From Starkville As A College Student

Growing up in Starkville, I was always told that it would be a complete change of scenery whenever I got to college and went to Mississippi State. Whenever I would hear this, I would simply roll my eyes and just sigh because it always seemed so far away. What I have come to realize, within a year or so of being in college, was that they were all right. It is like I have moved to a completely different town. Here are a few things that I have figured out as a college student in Starkville, but also being from Starkville.

No one is really watching you at all, and you get to make your own rules in a sense.

Last year, it was incredibly liberating to be able to go and do things with my friends whenever I wanted without having to text my parents first and ask if it was okay. There were so many late-night Sonic runs, or just simple windows down, music blaring drives with all my friends. It is one of the best feelings in the world to be able to finally feel like a little bit of an adult.

You get to act like you know every single thing about Starkville, even if you don't, just because your out-of-town friends have no idea where they are.

One of my favorite parts about the beginning of college would be whenever my friends and I would be in the car, and they would have no idea where they were going. I would proudly get to tell them the directions and act like I was the mayor or something. I still get to do it sometimes, but it was definitely way more fun in the beginning.

You still get a sense of feeling at home, but you're not so far that you can get homesick.

The best thing about being from Starkville would be the fact that moving in and out of places was the easiest thing. This past year moving into the dorm, I did not bring any hanging up clothes for at least three weeks. It was tempting to bring them, but they are so heavy and so much work. I eventually made the effort after I was sick and tired of borrowing clothes from everyone, but it was still a while later.

There are many more I could think of, I am sure, but these are the ones that have stuck out to me the most. Being from Starkville definitely has its perks, even if it may not seem like it.

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No one is really watching you at all, and you get to make your own rules in a sense.

You get to act like you know every single thing about Starkville, even if you don't, just because your out-of-town friends have no idea where they are.

You still get a sense of feeling at home, but you're not so far that you can get homesick.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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