Once I went off to college I had this strange phenomenon happen. No matter where I went I felt like I didn’t fully belong any longer. If I were at home I was homesick for OBU, but when I was at OBU I missed my family. It was weird but then I got to thinking and wondering if this was actually abnormal or if every college kid felt this.

When you move away from home and are going off to college you don’t know what to expect. You never know how to react when all of the new things get thrown at you because ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ as my Bonus Mom would say. No matter what happens while you are at college you feel like you are missing out. You hate the fact that when you are away your family is together, your friends are making memories without you and there isn’t anything you can do about it.

It’s hard when you are away, on this bed that isn’t yours, studying or trying to figure out how and why you can’t use powder laundry detergent in the washers at school, and how expensive it is to actually adult. You have this new sense of thankfulness for everything your parents did for you because now you’re doing it all on your own and its hard as hell.

So, all you high school seniors that are chomping at the bit, ready to get the heck out of high school, don’t rush it and try to enjoy the last few months of it. Your life will never be the same and that is okay but it is also incredibly hard. Moving away from my family I thought was going to be so easy but I miss them more than I miss my friends. Now don’t get me wrong because good God I miss my friends too but my family has become the most important people in my life. Just take it slow and enjoy it for as long as you can because once you get here everything is different. You will create some of the most incredible relationships in your life, you will grow up and mature a whole lot in these next few years and even just in the first semester.