It is now the end of my first official quarter in college. I could act as if I now know what I am doing and say that I am an expert at college survival, but I am not. I walked into this experience with a countless amount of questions and three months into it they seem only to have multiplied. This first quarter of college has been a learning experience in the form of a brutal awakening. The revelation of truth behind college relationships, studies, and growth has ignited a change that I hope will benefit me in years to come.
A significant part of the reason for my picking Walla Walla University was that I already had a stable friend group on campus. I knew that I was social enough to make friends regardless of the college I attended, but only Walla Walla could offer me a backup plan. I had …show more content…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” This quote by Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities eloquently describes my college experience so far. In this short time, I have gone to my fair share of college parties and made destructive decisions with friends. Learning the hard way just how difficult it is to insert yourself back into a state of productive studying after a crazy weekend is as necessary a lesson as falling off a bicycle for the first time. You make the mistake, but you acquire the ability to grow from it and not make the same mistake again. My first quarter of college can be summarized as finding multiple ways to fall off a bicycle but still being able to say that for at least a while there, I had successfully ridden a