1A: College; Your Blank Canvas

We all know who we were in high school. Chances are, you had one of two study habits; you studied or you didn't. You also probably were stuck with some reputation of being the “slut” or “nerd” or “quiet one.” But there is also a chance that you outgrew that personality and study habits long before the end of high school but people didn't bother to notice.

                In college you can change everything. You get to independently choose who you are going to be and the choices you are going to make in several aspects:

• Academically: First of all, you get specifically choose what you want to be and study so you can have your “dream job” in the future. You are given the tools and informational sources to study whatever the hell you want. If you want to study you can, and pass the course. Or you can go party every night and blow off your classwork. It doesn't matter what you choose to do but the point it, you can make that choice independently and not be forced into doing what you don’t want to do. But if you mess this up, you can’t blame anyone but yourself.
• Socially: this is the time to be whatever you want!! You can completely change your image and no one will know because they don’t know you. If you want to study in your room all the time, go for it. If you want to be the college drunk, drink away. But people will less likely to use the dreaded sentence, “you've changed” because no one knows you did. College gives you the opportunity to be who you want and make new friends with who you want.

                Teachers constantly tell you that college is tough and so different. Coming into SCSU they give us all these seminars to help us make us make the “right decision.” I respect this but they know that we are going to make plenty of mistakes but hopefully that we will positively learn from

them. This may sound cliche but I look at this new school as the opportunity to mold myself into what I want to be. I have goals; I am majoring in elementary school teacher. Teaching means the world to me so I will do whatever it takes to come out with a degree. Though I am scared of the workload of my classes and scared of having a snobby professor, I am also eager to make new friends and put in my greatest effort to be my greatest potential. Though I know you might not have the same goals as me, I just am urging the fact that, this is one of your few opportunities to be yourself to your full potential.

                College is your blank canvas full of new opportunities and independence; Paint away!

New school, New dorm :)

its a work in progress!