College is a time to learn. I’m not talking about the course subject kind of learning but more of an internal learning that one needs to do. Leaving your house, your own comfort and coming to a foreign place like college while living with strangers can seem intimidating but that’s the idea of it all. College is about trying to explore your surrounds and find out what and how you can benefit from it. It’s about being uncomfortable until it’s comfortable. I’m here at college not only to get a higher education and make a living in the future, but I want to find out how I can attribute to society and how I utilizes my experiences today to make a bigger difference tomorrow.

I learned that college is not about the grades nor is it mainly about what you learn in your classes. It is more about how you manage your life around school and stress. On some days, college can feel its suffocating you and there’s no room to breathe. However, on other days, you would sit down and evaluate your life and you count all the blessings in your life because of college. I learned that even when it feels like the end, it’s not. At the end of that dark tunnel, I found light and I imagine how different my views where a month ago. You just have to keep going and continue to move past obstacles that stands in your way, even when it feels like there’s no way around it, there is.

After a week at college, I begin to slowly adjust. I made new friends in class and at work. I begin to mold my daily routine and life seems to be at ease. Now, I feel at home. I can finally call Baylor my home. Did I regret choosing Baylor? Maybe at first, but now, I don’t. Life is about adjusting and making the best of it and I truly feel like my time here at Baylor has really opened many new experiences for me.

Getting situated and comfortable was a process when I moved to Baylor. Not having the access to my car and being unable to drive myself to places only caused more stress. It felt as if college was a whole new world and I forgot how to function and live. I felt trapped and lonely, but this was it, wasn’t it? I graduated. I’m in college. Suddenly I realized that every sweat and stress I had in high-school was all the hard-work put into getting into a good college and that I had no directions of where to go now. Car or no car, I was lost…

Even though I am barley a freshman, my life at Baylor seems to be in a world wind of emotions. When I first came to Baylor I was not greeted with smiles nor hug, instead I was faced with a grumpy student worker at the front desk of Dawson. Then and there, I knew that this might be an omen that is was an unfriendly and unwelcoming campus. I was wrong, Baylor was just a start of a wonderful, yet stressful, journey toward the future.