Experience at ISU

I moved into Illinois State University on August 17^th of 2010. Everything changed so suddenly. For coming to ISU I was mildly excited to come to school here and get to get a great life experience as I would be living on my own. It was all so sudden and summer flew by it felt like, but it was one of my best summers yet. As this summer I was just getting excited and ready for college in the fall. Summer life was amazing; all I did was just hang out with my friends and family and counting down the days until freedom!  Then the day came when my family had to take me and my car loaded with my stuff to move into the dorm. The day was filled with sadness as I’m my mom’s last child and of course it’s for some reason harder to say goodbye and let go of your daughter. Once they left the campus, I was free!

So far I’ve been at Illinois State living on my own for almost a month now. It seems so unreal that it’s been a month since all of my curfews, rules and those annoying chores around the house. It feels so relieving being on my own at college, and I love it, but I do miss everyone back home as well. Sometimes I find myself double checking to look and see if my parents are there to tell me what to do and when to do it. It’s so different being away from home, you’ve lived your life for 18 years of being sheltered and protected from the outside world and not having a worry on your mind. Then coming here and having to deal with life on your own, having to feed and take care of yourself. It’s a major change in my life, and in my opinion I hate change. I like having a simple life, but as of now I like the concept of college and living on my own.