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To The Freshman, From The Senior

So love life, kick butt in school, make your parents proud, discover who you are and want to be as a person (actually do it), and love yourself and Jesus in the process.

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To The Freshman, From The Senior
Catelyn Peterson

To the Freshmen,

As a senior in college, there are several different words of advice that I could say to you to about college, as well as life in general. Within these next four years of your life, you will go through several different seasons of life that are far from your control. You will lose yourself and hate yourself in the process, and you will find yourself and learn to love all of yourself completely. However, the best part about all of this is the fact that you end up being stronger, have a completely different outlook on life, and completely change who you are as a person once you get to senior year.

I can promise you that it is not always fun and games. There will be times when you want to call your mom and tell her you want to drop out or even change your major (one of four times), and then there will be times when you feel young, wild, and free and everything is going right in your life.

You'll lose friends and gain friends, but the ones who have stuck through it with you will be there for throughout the rest of your life. Your "best friend" will hurt you even if you think she/he never would and you will grow tremendously from the entire situation.

Don't have full on FOMO (fear of missing out) and think you have to go to every single party, go out every day of the week/weekend, or even go to all of the events on campus with your friends. There will be several times when your grades need to come ahead of all of those things. You have to remember that you came to college to study and get a degree in something other the local bar or fraternity house. Yes, there will be sometimes when it'll be worth going out instead of studying for that Chem 1 quiz, but not every single time. Take too many pictures, make all of the late night trips to Taco Bell that your stomach and bank account can hold, go on random road trips with your friends, pinecone someone's truck with your roommate, and simply just make memories. One of the biggest things is to enjoy the people around you and the college that you're in because you will never get these years or these people back. If you date the hot baseball player or the girl on Exec Council for her sorority or even decide to stay single in college, live it out to the fullest. It's the prime time to make mistakes and figure out what you want to do with yourself and your future before you have to actually step out and face the real world. So love life, kick butt in school, make your parents proud, discover who you are and want to be as a person (actually do it), and love yourself and Jesus in the process.

From,

The Senior


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