I finally made it! After two long years of dreaming of going to the best school ever, I have finally arrived at Michigan State University.

The first few days were awful because moving is a difficult process, especially by yourself. I had to move everything because I knew my family would complain about how much stuff I had so I just told myself that all the moving would be my workout for the day since I skipped the gym.

Moving in was fun but more difficult than anything else because I was too lazy to unpack everything. If I'm being honest, I still haven't fully unpacked. I keep going and doing things and hanging out with people or just being lazy and sit on my phone, but that's because I know that I won't be able to sit on my phone after classes get in full swing; I'll actually have to focus on school work and not parties and my social life.

I genuinely don't think I'm going to have time to balance everything that I need to do. Between school, homework, the gym, going through sorority recruitment and trying to have a social life, will I actually be able to sleep? The world may never know! But the stress and difficulty in balancing everything come with college, I guess. It's about growing up and being able to balance the workload and make sure that you are not choosing to make one thing a bigger priority compared to the others. It just doesn't work out in the end, because you don't want your grades to suffer and then have to worry about how you could possibly get your grades up by the end of the semester or the end of the year.

Something I told myself is that I will work harder and put in more effort with all my assignments and not look to keep up with the partying side that every college has.

But even then, college shouldn't be about the parties and stuff. In the real world, it doesn't matter how many beers you can shotgun or how many girls you made out with in one night; the degree you graduate with is the degree that's going to be useful when you go out and try to get a real job so you can make more money and not spend it all on drugs and alcohol and then complain about how you don't have money. It's all about being able to balance the workload while also having fun and not going insane, but even then, sometimes I feel like if you completely cut out partying you might be better off because then you can just focus on school. And that's what I hope to do for the next few months, or maybe even going out in moderation while balancing school and all the stresses that come with it.

For the most part, I am really excited about my time here and I can't wait to make more memories and have a good time with my roommates and friends.