What to Expect from Your First Year of College

Office Max and Kinko?s will become two of your favorite places the first year
you are in
college. You will learn what a library is for the first time in your life
and you might even learn to write a long term paper. You?ll stay out all night
and go to class with a hangover and you?ll study like crazy for mid-terms and oh
yes, you?ll gain weight too. Probably at least the freshmen 10 or maybe even 20
pounds but who cares?you are finally in college!



The first year of

college is a year you have looked forward to for some time. You are full of
anticipation and full of apprehension. You are excited and scared but very ready
to experience it all. You are finally at the place in life where you can be
considered an adult and you can?t wait to begin setting your own life?s plan
into motion.



You?ll start to drink coffee and find your favorite at Starbucks and find that
you frequent Barnes and Noble rather than the chic boutiques. You?ll experience
life on campus and off campus and with any luck; you?ll be an asset to the
college campus you choose to attend. You?ll make plans for the future and you?ll
contribute to the future by proclaiming all of the things which should be
changed within our world. You?ll make it.



Before you get to this point though, you will feel like you won?t make it past
the first

college education semester. You?ll stay up all night and party till dawn.
You will lay out of class and eat pizza at four in the morning. You?ll avoid
going home on weekends and avoid study groups and basically, you?ll be failing
before you stop and realize what you are throwing away.



Usually, by the end of the college freshman?s first year, they have started to
get over themselves and their new found freedom. They will take the time to
regroup and get serious. A series of bad grades will inevitably send the
college or
university freshman over the edge to the point of no return and then, they
will return. They will return to the dream of an education. They will wake up to
the reality of

college educational endeavors and they will usually find a way to succeed
and eventually graduate.



When this happens, parents and grandparents will cheer and professors will be
relieved. Friends will be happy for their new college classmate and everyone
will be happy to watch a child evolve into a proud adult with a

college education.