This is what I was told about freshman year of college:
1. It would be MUCH harder than high school
2. I'd be lucky to only gain 15 pounds
3. You'll meet tons of fascinating people from all around the world
The reality last year was that while I did gain weight, it was because we had more access to food. It wasn't like my parents were finally not around to make me eat my vegetables and all of a sudden four bowls of cereal were scarfed daily.
The classwork didn't seem harder to me than high school. I don't know if that speaks poorly of my high school or my college, but it didn't. It may have taken me longer to do college homework, but I was going slower because it wasn't ever busy work and so was paying attention and learning stuff.
I haven't met tons of people. Becca and Jackie are both hilarious, but I am not quite sure they're fascinating, and they're both from New York.
So far this year, like since two weeks ago when school has started, I've lost weight. Sophomore year seems WAY harder than last year. About once a month or so I recommit to being in bed before midnight, but I haven't stopped doing homework before 2am yet. And yesterday I met the hottest Irish guy named Colin who flirted so much that I wanted to go home and put a poster of him up on my wall.
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Generally speaking, those rumors are about the classic ''sleepaway'' college experience, in which students leave the places they've always lived with family and go live in dorms all year, often only with other underclassmen. You've had a different experience, that's all...but often while ''commuter colleges'' have fewer non-local students, they also have more non-traditional students; that is, people who are older and have had more interesting life experiences en route to college. As you advance into more specialized classes that can end up being quite a benefit.
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