College!

Holy crap! I can't believe I'm almost done with my first year of college! I gotta say though, it has been AWESOME! That's not to say that it has all been easy though, because it definitely hasn't. Now, this may come as a shock to some people, but I don't transition well. So, as you may have guessed moving out, coming into college, meeting all new people, and on top of it all, figuring out how to manage my life, was... intense to say the least. But everything I was told by my older friends, my family, and especially my mom (even though I didn't believe any of them at the time!) was true. That this transition gets easier with time. You find your niche and Berkeley's 25,000 (or some other obscenely large number) undergrad campus doesn't seem so big and overwhelming anymore. On top of meeting people through class, study groups, clubs and friends, some of my best friends I've met by sheer proximity. Living in the dorms was by far the best decision I've made (besides coming to Berkeley, of course!) I've met so many cool people, some of whom are now my best friends. When I first told people about applying and going to college, a surprising number of them assumed I'd be living at home. I truly believe that living in the dorms has made my first year in college exponentially better!