"High School is the best four years of your life, cherish these moments."

WRONG.

High school was great, but it does not beat the four years you cherish in your college years. I graduated from high school two years ago, and it seems like such a blur. Those four years of my life are smashed together in a few moments that I cherished.

When I first attended college, I had no idea what to expect. A new atmosphere, a new mindset, and definitely a new attitude. I was finally free to be whoever I wanted to be without judgment. If there was judgment, I didn't care because I didn't know these people and they had no clue who I was. High school is based on the friends you have and the face you have to put up every day you walk in. College, on the other hand, is so much different.

Freshman year, I saw a change in myself in less than a year than the amount of change I had in four years of high school. I had a new confidence that I could express and not be ashamed of. I had friends I knew I could have for a lifetime because we went through everything together. Of course, I still have friends from high school, but most of us are on different paths in our lives.

High school is truly the peak of your life. You are only given a taste of freedom with lots of boundaries attached. You want to be treated like an adult, but no one takes you seriously because you are still in high school. Most of us are considered naive because we haven't experienced life quite yet. The moment I stepped into college I was forced to grow up. I had to learn how to be an adult and still be able to have fun as a teenager. I was still slightly naive, but I was trying to find my way like every other college student.

The moment you step into college you have a chance to grab life and run with it. Your life begins to be shaped the moment you are called a freshman. The next four years, you have the opportunity to live life and make the best memories with the friends you make. I just completed my second year and have so many memories. I can only imagine the many more I have to make ahead of me.

I can't wait to see what is in store for me for the next two years. College is handing me lemons and I can't wait to make some sweet lemonade.