College is great, and you are going to have a blast! All the other new students are going through the same thing with all the same worries, so it is something you all share together and bond over. You are going to meet a lot of great new people.

Are you going away to cleege, or are you going to still live where you do now? The one great thing about going away is that it gets you away from all the same old people who have the same old expectations of you. It gives you a chance to be a different person or try new things that maybe you wouldn't try if you were still always around the same old people. It's hard to change when everyone thinks of you in one certain way, so it is a lot easier when you go somewhere where no one has any preconcieved notions about you.

Meeting the other students, the new friends, and learning new things are the great parts about college. The bureacracy is the worst. The college adminsitration and bureaucracy do not care very much about you, so that can be very discouraging if you get into some kind of problem that they will not or cannot help you with. But I think one of the things that employers value in a college graduate is that they know you have been able to navigate at least one unwieldy and uncooperative bureacracy and still achive a long term goal, which a very valueable skill. Good luck with that part.

Hopefully you will meet people who will be your lifelong friends. I just got back from a camping trip with the famiilies of seven or eight of my closest friends from college. I graduated in 1991, but we still do a good job of keeping in touch, and a few years ago we started doing an anual camping trip every summer. It's amazing to see your college friends after they are married and have kids and houses and careers, and it's hilarious to remember the old stories. And then after all the kids are put to bed, it's a blast to pull out the pipes and sit around the camp fire and smoke with your college friends like you did 20 years ago.

Good luck with everything and tell us how it all goes!
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . I start College Friday and I'm absolutely terrified... I have mostly been an online student (for my last two High School years) and I am faced with a horrible prospect: Public College. My anxiety levels have been through the roof and every time I think about it it feels like I'm having a panic attack. I hate change and new things. I'm absolutely sure I'm going to get lost trying to find my classes, I don't know anyone, and I'm deathly afraid of having to mingle with my peers. If it wasn't for pot I think I would have jumped out of my skin Rating: 5