 So today I thought that I would start us off with an article that I wrote my freshman year of college So I wrote for her campus when I was a freshman in college and this was my very first article for them and I joined I was like so excited and I remember I wrote this article on a Hurricane break because if you go to school in Charleston like you you take breaks because hurricanes come which is a thing and I wrote this and it was just like it just like poured out of me Like I was I had a lot of feelings about my freshman year of college So I'm just gonna I'm just I'm gonna read what I wrote I am about four weeks into college and I have come to the conclusion that it's kind of mediocre Let me set the scene. I'm sitting alone in my dorm room at 10 p.m. Scrolling through my Instagram feed trying not to feel bad about myself I have seen so many pictures of girls from my high school looking so good on a Tuesday night They have that full-on flat iron hair gorgeous smoky eye and an amazing party outfit me being me I'm like, okay. Go you put two exclamation points However, the 90-year-old woman in me is saying go to bed. You have class tomorrow I don't know. I have a lot of feelings every girl I know is posting adorable pics of their dorm room with their perfect favorite fairy lights Surrounded by their roomy who doubles as their best friend and a group of girls That is already solidified. Well, I do pride myself on having some freaking adorable fairy lights. I did I didn't have some I am not having the same experience as most people portray online I believe that being a freshman is kind of terrible and here's why One you do most things alone or if people okay, this kind of gets This kind of gets weird Basically the point of the article is just that not everyone has the same experience So I thought that it would be good to like write an article about this because it is definitely something that I thought about a lot when I was a freshman in college because I was like I was very concerned with like Seeming like I had was having a great time. Actually. I wasn't that concerned because there was this article and I posted it online For everyone to read and see but here's the thing I say this right okay So when you're in high school that last that last year of high school Everyone is talking about college and your junior really like all of high school You just talk about college, you know, you just talk about how amazing it's gonna be and like how much You're gonna free them and all this stuff and like it is that don't get me wrong I I love college and I think that most people would like agree with me like the logical side of your brain is like Yes, this is great school is just school just gets better and when you're in college At least for in my experience because in high school You have like no time to really think and process the stuff that you're learning when in college If you have more space to To learn I don't know there's just like more time in the day and you have more freedom and you know It's it's cool. It's cool guys. It's cool But I there are like some things that I wish someone had explained and laid out So I didn't feel like I was completely doing it wrong I guess because I still kind of agree with this article I wrote like being a freshman in college is like low key terrible. It's fun, but it's also bad Okay, so let me just start off with number one So first of all everyone is just as lost as you like you might be oh well all of those people You know what they get along with their roommates and they have this friend group and they have this And like that might be true, but there's still a lot of people like you like me I'm hoping That you know, I haven't really figured it all out yet, especially like in the first couple of months You know, you just start like comparing yourself to other people. Okay, so I had a lot of roommate issues my first like month So a lot of my time was consumed with the sort of like drama that was going on With that and I'm never gonna talk about that on my channel like me in like 10 years But it was just like a really awful situation So I was like really concerned about all of that and like Figuring it out and getting to my classes and navigating like having all this free time So it wasn't this going out every weekend and like having fun and you know Solidifying the most amazing group friends right away. Like just I don't know Like that's a lot more rare than people would like to admit. Anyway, okay number two stuck up on food for the weekend So this you might not be thinking about this go to the the dining hall or whatever because most of the times Dining halls like have weird hours on the weekend. So I found myself on the weekend. The only dining hall that I liked that like served okay food was closed from Friday afternoon to like Monday morning So that was like three days that I had to just figure out what to put in my body to you know Be cool. Yeah, basically just go to the dining hall and like bring Tupperware Fill up your Tupperware with like cereal take some bananas Take some fruit. I don't know what you want to take just steal food from the dining hall Like if you're like me like I didn't eat like a lot of the hot meals a lot of time So I didn't feel bad using my swipes to like take bananas because like that's what they're there for, you know Okay, number three. Okay, so the biggest adjustment of college is definitely free time in this is something that I didn't I like didn't think about this until I went because like you just get there and Like the weekend happens and like you have to fill it up with stuff It's like going to camp, but there's no there's no activities. There's no activities you have to like figure out what to do with your life and That was really overwhelming for me So I got a job because I was like I cannot handle this free time. So everyone copes with it differently I don't know okay number four. Everyone talks a really big game when it comes to partying But literally trust me you are not the only one who's never been to a party before like everyone talks such a big game and just like go and Like go with a friend have fun I don't know don't feel like you have to like go go crazy or go wild like you are in control of your you know Your destiny, okay? Number five you can still have fun with your friends or your roommates and have a chill night You like in your dorm room and honestly, those are like the most fun nights I would say my freshman year like I would watch the bachelor with my roommate like on Monday nights And we would like do face masks and like eat eat good food And like we just had fun like it was just or we would go to like coffee shops on the weekend and take walks We were like lame, but it was like so that was fun Like that was probably my favorite part of college thing number six don't lie on your roommate form I'm looking at you don't lie if you are a morning person or a night owl or you're gonna be bringing people over or you Don't want people in your dorm room do not lie about it because if you end up with a roommate Who's and you like hate people and they're bringing people over all the time? You're not gonna like that find someone who like has similar habits to you like you don't have to be best friends with Them like and if you are like that's great like that's that's a right nice time But also it's like kind of unrealistic like I just think that if I had someone that just like respected me and Like that would have been like way better a number eight If you're an early bird do laundry at like 7 a.m. On Sunday or Saturday morning Oh because no one will remove your clothes and you can do multiple loads of time Number nine don't let the pressure of having the perfect college experience like stop you from doing things So I think that this was like a big thing that was like stopping me as I was like Oh, well, you know I don't have this like immediate group of all of these best friends to go and do stuff with So, you know my college experience isn't valid and it's not you know I don't know like I just think that everyone is going through something in college And that's like another thing like it even if someone looks like they're surrounded by a lot of people I think that it can be an extremely Lonely time and it doesn't even have to mean that you're alone It's just like you're figuring out like a lot of new stuff about life. Oh number ten Okay, so learn your schools catalog, especially if you want to study abroad So this was something that like I didn't truly understand So if you an older sibling or someone, you know who goes to the school This is especially tricky like if you don't know what major you're going to do and you're you want to study abroad Really take a look at your school catalog and figure out what you know You need to do to make sure that you can study abroad. Yeah, so leave your questions below I might do another Q&A about college because it's you know, it's a it's a topic right with content. So do that like this video if you liked it and You know check out some other videos on my channel, you know if you're curious about gap years or other college stuff So thanks for watching and have a have a good day. Have a good one Just that's where you are. So that's thank you subscribe