In elementary school, teachers tell us to be excited for middle school. When we arrived to middle school, teachers advise us to get ready for more work in high school. While high school, guidance counselors would remind us that college is going to help us determine what we will do in for the rest of our lives.

Seniors are thinking about how hard it is to say goodbye, so they decide to let friends go. As June swings around the corner, seniors are frightened to leave their comfortable high schools since there will be at least one teacher they will miss once they leave. Once they meet that one professor that understands their life stories, they will have more than one adult that can help them in their times of needs.

Everyone in their lives have seen a movie that has taken place in a college or university. All you see are the parties, the guys, the drama and the amount of sleep students don't get; they don’t want that to happen to them so they will try and avoid it or they will join it slowly. All of the freshmen this year have been thinking about what their first college party is going to be like, while others are afraid of what courses they’re going to have. Students from all around New York are getting ready by finding roommates to help them survive the first year.

Once the incoming freshmen get that little piece of paper that says “High School Diploma,” they will feel released from the shackles that their jails that have bell schedules for six hours a day for five days a week. Only to realize that all that's changing is its surroundings, teacher to professor, and when to actually eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Listening to the same stories on how different people got the same diploma as you but in a different way than everyone else around them.

Meeting new people is going to be a challenge, because all the new incoming freshmen are already talking and know each others’ lives, but they forget there are more than just the freshmen in that college. Everyone can understand where we are at because they were in our shoes a couple months or years ago. All the incoming freshmen are ready for college to start to get away from the problems they had in high school to have a fresh new start.

When it comes to meeting the roommate that was either chosen for you by random or you chose for yourself, hoping they are cool with how you are as a person. Even though you know you might not see them until the evening, it doesn’t matter just knowing they’re there for you for this entire year, staying by your side and won’t let you give up on yourself. Both you and your roommate will have to come up with compromises when it comes to decorating the dorm room.

Incoming freshman will use their room more than they anticipate, because they are going to be doing absolutely nothing between classes. They can either hang out with friends that don’t have a class or go back to their dorm room and chill on their bed.