<p>for those of you attending an out od state college do you have ANY horror stories of your freshman year? ANYTHING and AEVERYTHING counts! the reason i ask is my dad sauys he dosen't want me going to an out of state coolege becuse "things could happen" i live in AZ but want to go to school in VA.</p>
<p>Meh. I hope you're going to JMU or UVA, if not, go to Zona.</p>
<p>Tell your dad that "things could happen" at home, too. ;)</p>
<p>Like horror stories about sexual assault, rape, death, suicide? B/c I have two stories but I won't voice them unless that is for sure what you want.</p>
<p>I go to Kenyon in Ohio, but I'm from New England...
Well... freshman year I was in a relationship with a guy from home. He broke up with me. I got a really bad stomach ulcer. Threw up blood. Sat in the emergency room for 5 hours in the middle of the night, in a room with nothing on the walls and no one to talk to.
I was put on a liquid diet for at least a week, and 6 different medications (our campus MD is notorious for over medicating) and two days later the medication overwhelmed me and I blacked out in the shower and hit my head. I was on dorm arrest for a week. I missed almost three weeks of class, and once I returned I promptly caught the flu. My mother was very freaked out and flew out to see me and called everyone she knew on campus and basically ran my life. I ended up finishing that semester okay, but it was overwhelming and I ended up going home part way through spring semester, but now I'm back and loving it and perfectly healthy.</p>
<p>For an ultimate things can go wrong at home too: When I was 16 I was raped in my own home. Nothing like that has ever happened to me at school or anytime I was away from home. If for some reason you want details you can PM me.</p>
<p>Sorry to be such a downer! I guess you could expect it from a thread like this!</p>
<p>All I can say is, spend the night, it is the most important choice you'll make that year if you go to the WRONG school.</p>
<p>About sickness I know a girl who is sick all the time and I feel bad for her b/c she never gets better. She is getting a bunch of tests done on her kidneys right now . . .</p>
<p>what kind of things?</p>
<p>ive heard about suicides mainly at MIT and Caltech... creepy.</p>