Moving to college can be a tough transition. There are no rules, no parents, and you are in a totally new environment. When you add moving to an entirely different state, that can make the transition twice as tough. I know it did for me.

Even though I only crossed a river to get here, and I can drive back home whenever I feel like it, coming to Oklahoma was very difficult. I'm from the great state of Texas, Arlington, Texas, to be exact, and it only takes me about two hours and 45 minutes to get from my house to the University of Oklahoma.

If you're anything like me, you are very close to your family and you cried very hard when they left after moving you in. You talk to them every day, and you call them when you are feeling stressed, homesick, or conflicted.

You are also still trying to adjust to being without your family. Also, your friends get to go home more often than you do because they live less than an hour away. I know exactly how you feel, and I am going to give you my ways of coping with going to college out-of-state.

When going to college out of state, there are three things to remember: