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A Wake Up Call to Incoming Freshman

Don't push for high school to be over.

Tarah Webber
Sep 05, 2016
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Once you're a senior in high school, all you want to do is to graduate so you can leave behind all your high school drama and start fresh. What you don't realize how different and how much changes after you graduate. Your "best friends" from high school start getting busy with what they want to do with the rest of their lives and before you know it, you barely here from them. You find out more about what their doing through Facebook then through text messages.

You get to college and realize that mommy and daddy aren't there everyday to make sure that you do your homework or keep after your laundry. They don't make you dinner every night or tell you when to go to bed. The freedom is wonderful and you take advantage of it. Before you know it you don't have any clean clothes, you've lasted solely on Ramen and Goldfish, and you're failing your classes because you refuse to get out of bed in time for class and slack on homework because you choose Netflix over sleep.

College courses seem easy for the first week and you think, "Oh, this will be easier than high school. I won't need to study at all." Then your first big test comes up, you decide to spend the night before partying or watching Netflix till 3 AM. The morning of the test arrives and you feel like it will be a cake walk, only to find out you can only answer three of the fifty questions and you totally just failed that test.

You think being away from high school and your parents will be the best thing ever. Don't get me wrong, the freedom and learning experiences it offers are so worth the struggles. My point, is don't rush high school. College isn't a cake walk and it won't be all fun and games. There are major changes you will need to make to prepare yourself for college. Your parents won't watch over you, so you need to watch over yourself. Take the time to study before a big test, eat three meals a day that consist of more than just carbs, do your laundry, and make friends. Don't spend all your time in your room, you'll regret that so much more than getting out and meeting new people. Enjoy college, but don't underestimate it.

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