2011-01-07, 10:02 PM
Once a semester I spend one to two weeks panicking about life's continuous march. Then I get busy with stuff to do and I move on. It happens to most of us. I focused on the cons a lot before I moved out to start freshman year, but then I got there and kinda went "PROS! PROS EVERYWHERE!!!" Life has been a continual improvement since 7th grade.
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I've lived in the dorms for the whole of my college experience so far (3 semesters to go) and it's a great middle-ground between your home and truly being on your own. Doubly true if your floor has outgoing people and you don't have to do any work to meet them and your cafeteria doesn't suck. I'm running some of the "Oh god, truly moving out jitters" since I need to find an apartment for my internship in Cleveland this summer, (anyone know anyone in need of a roommate?) but I imagine I'll cope and adjust when the time comes, just like I've done before. Humans are pretty good at that. I have a remarkable amount of free time. I work 10 hours a week and 10 hours every other weekend (at a sweet job in the cafeteria, where I've met pretty much all my friends) and don't have a crazy rigorous class schedule- although Engineering isn't the easiest thing ever- 12 to 15 credit-hours/semester. I find that some days, especially weekends I don't work, I'm able to get so little done in a day I sort of amaze myself. Fun isn't dead, but yeah, you need to make it for yourself a little, but with the new time, resources, and freedoms... it's pretty easy to do. I recommend exploration through exercise when the weather allows. I bike a lot. It's good. I'm a substantially healthier person now that I'm out on my own. It didn't even take much effort, the change of scenery and not being around people who are used to me acting like a fatty made it pretty easy. I've had second thoughts about my no-looking-back dive into Electrical Engineering. I enjoy the classes and the labs and enough of the subject matter, it can just be hard to shake the feeling that there's something better out there. I don't have any great advice on that. Because there might be something better. But I'm young, and I'm happy enough. So that will do for now.
I haven't had an appreciable problem with cash. Most of my expenses get put off into loan form by living in the dorms. Then again, I don't splurge on delivery and booze, and I pirate a fair amount, so that keeps expenses down. Benefit of going into engineering is that the loans don't really scare me.
One regret: I didn't even try for an internship last year. My general fears about the future mostly involve the total collapse of society and my unpreparedness for that scenario... so totally irrelevant to the issue at hand.
My greatest achievement so far is that I've gotten very comfortable with how I live my life. To sort of paraphrase it into encouragement/advice: Relax. You'll be fine. You'll adjust more readily than you think. Just stay flexible, roll with the punches, and never forget about common sense.
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I've lived in the dorms for the whole of my college experience so far (3 semesters to go) and it's a great middle-ground between your home and truly being on your own. Doubly true if your floor has outgoing people and you don't have to do any work to meet them and your cafeteria doesn't suck. I'm running some of the "Oh god, truly moving out jitters" since I need to find an apartment for my internship in Cleveland this summer, (anyone know anyone in need of a roommate?) but I imagine I'll cope and adjust when the time comes, just like I've done before. Humans are pretty good at that. I have a remarkable amount of free time. I work 10 hours a week and 10 hours every other weekend (at a sweet job in the cafeteria, where I've met pretty much all my friends) and don't have a crazy rigorous class schedule- although Engineering isn't the easiest thing ever- 12 to 15 credit-hours/semester. I find that some days, especially weekends I don't work, I'm able to get so little done in a day I sort of amaze myself. Fun isn't dead, but yeah, you need to make it for yourself a little, but with the new time, resources, and freedoms... it's pretty easy to do. I recommend exploration through exercise when the weather allows. I bike a lot. It's good. I'm a substantially healthier person now that I'm out on my own. It didn't even take much effort, the change of scenery and not being around people who are used to me acting like a fatty made it pretty easy. I've had second thoughts about my no-looking-back dive into Electrical Engineering. I enjoy the classes and the labs and enough of the subject matter, it can just be hard to shake the feeling that there's something better out there. I don't have any great advice on that. Because there might be something better. But I'm young, and I'm happy enough. So that will do for now.
I haven't had an appreciable problem with cash. Most of my expenses get put off into loan form by living in the dorms. Then again, I don't splurge on delivery and booze, and I pirate a fair amount, so that keeps expenses down. Benefit of going into engineering is that the loans don't really scare me.
One regret: I didn't even try for an internship last year. My general fears about the future mostly involve the total collapse of society and my unpreparedness for that scenario... so totally irrelevant to the issue at hand.
My greatest achievement so far is that I've gotten very comfortable with how I live my life. To sort of paraphrase it into encouragement/advice: Relax. You'll be fine. You'll adjust more readily than you think. Just stay flexible, roll with the punches, and never forget about common sense.