<p>^ It seems like if everything can’t fit into a van then you have too much!! Unless you’re going really far away or a lot of people are traveling with you…</p>
<p>I’m hoping my school is going to be a good fit for me. Not really sure yet.</p>
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I would say I have a normal amount of stuff, but there are some irregularly shaped things like a big desk chair that I can’t take apart that will take up a lot of room :(</p>
<p>Last year I had my entire living room filled with stuff we brought and we had to borrow a truck in addition to my two family cars to get everything there. Ive just finished getting all the same things back together that I brought last year, and it all fits into one bankers box and one rubbermaid tub-- excluding my bedding, desk chair, and fridge. Apparently all that new stuff that was still in packaging last year took up a lot more room while it was still packaged. But my bedding alone fills up the trunk of the family car.</p>
<p>My inner monologue these days consists of something like, “I hope I don’t have to loft my bed… I really want a futon… I wonder if a futon would fit… I wonder if I’d have to loft my bed… I hope I don’t have to loft my bed… I really want a futon… can I really afford a futon?.. Might my parents pay for it?.. if I don’t buy a futon right now with my own money it won’t be able to come in the truck… if it can’t go in the truck, how will i get it to school?.. what if it doesn’t fit?.. i hope i don’t have to loft my bed…” <em>repeat</em></p>
<p>I’m rather young too, currently 17 and will turn 18 soon. I feel time is passing too quickly, but what can we do other than to let father time to his devious work?</p>
<p>More importantly, I’m studying a lot over the summer because my current biggest fear is not getting straight As. Also I have 5 classes and a pretty hectic schedule, which is weird because it seems I’m the only one among my friends and me…</p>
<p>I’m just excited to go some place new and try completely new things. I’ve lived in the same area all my life, so I can’t wait to move away. I know I’ll miss my family, but I went to a boarding school, so I’m not too nervous about being on my own. Plus, my school seems AWESOME and I can’t wait to meet the people!</p>
<p>^It indeed is. Actually, I was stuck between choosing my current school and Vassar! 
I think you’ll love it there a lot.</p>
<p>The campus is beautiful. Have fun!</p>
<p>I just cashed my grant cheques. It is very nice to see the Franklin family again :D</p>
<p>Just merely hoping that I do well, and that this last summer class I just took will not involve me having to recheck my grade again with the professor (taken at a CC). Have three classes, none very difficult (in terms of subject matter-the profs may yet be another story), so this second attempt at a four-year school should go as planned.</p>
<p>lol i need to get motivated!!</p>
<p>Now I just want to get there already! I’ve been re-watching videos about my school, studying campus and city maps, shopping, developing a pile of stuff to pack. I’m very excited! I just hope it will be everything I dream of it being :D</p>
<p>I’m experiencing some mixture of excitement and extreme anxiety. On one hand, I already have a group of friends and my boyfriend at the school I will be attending next year, and I’m excited to have a social life. It will also be cool to be in the same zip code as my boyfriend for the first time in the five years we’ve been together. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I’m worried about jumping into yet another new curriculum that I don’t know I’ll enjoy and that doesn’t have great employment prospects. I’m worried about balancing work and classes and clubs with my social life. Mostly, I’m worried about my family. With my brother and I both leaving this year, my parents will be having an empty nest, and there has been a lot of tension between them lately because of my father’s alcoholism and related problems. I’m worried about not being here to monitor his drinking and make sure that he is eating and sleeping. </p>
<p>Also, my sister has a mass on her kidney and I’m really worried that it is cancer, since the symptoms all match up. I am terrified of the prospect that she will be dealing with such a life threatening illness with two young daughters to care for by herself. 
But I don’t really know anything for sure yet so all I can do is wait…</p>
<p>I cant WAIT to go back. I’m in a suite with 5 of my best friends I made last year and it’s gonna be so much fun.</p>
<p>I am NOT excited for my actual classes though…since I just switched my major to Bio, I have to catch up, which means taking calc, bio, and chem all in the same semester.</p>
<p>Tuesdays are worst…3 hour bio lab – 20 minute break – 3 hour chem lab. D:</p>
<p>I just want to get out of here already. I can’t wait to be FREE!
I am nervous though about the whole roommates / making friends kinda thing. I don’t want to be the outcast.</p>
<p>I am ready to go back, although I just took a few week break, being there all summer. It will be exciting to have my close friends all back there (few of them stayed for the summer) except for the dearly departed who already graduated. </p>
<p>Going into my junior year. This time is a lot different than the last two times. I remember as a freshman that I was really nervous, but ready to move away and get started, willing to try new things. Then freshman year was alright. My only regret was getting entangled in some clubs that it would have been bad to quit midway because of competition purposes just because people said you should go out and join a club in order to get involved. Going into sophomore year, I remember thinking that freshman year I wasn’t getting everything I wanted out of college, and that I am going to make some major lifestyle changes, and put a lot less emphasis on academics. I did that, and have been happier for it. </p>
<p>Now going into junior year, going back doesn’t really have any nervousness or anything to it. I have a great group of friends, some real social power now, doing well academically, and am comfortable with the life I’m living. Just excited to get some of my closest friends back to living in the same city as me, instead of 8-14 hours away!</p>
<p>As an incoming freshman I’m scared that I picked the wrong school. I’m nervous about making friends, and all the work and everything. 
wahhhh But I can’t wait to get out of new jersey and get away from my family and everything here. I just want to leave.</p>
<p>I think NO ONE should be nervous about making friends because EVERYONE (except maybe like uhm, IMO 1%) of the freshmen are looking for friends.</p>
<p>I mean we all have the same irrational fears on this site so I am sure we will ALL be fine! :)</p>
<p>YAYAYAYAY! FOR COLLEGE! haha</p>
<p>I was really really really excited as the summer went by, but now I’m getting nervous…I leave in 11 days. Ahh! Also, I have to start working out like crazy, as preseason fitness testing begins the day I arrive (joy).</p>
<p>I feel nervous about leaving all of my friends, and my family to go somewhere new. But at the same time, I can’t wait to get the hell out of CT and be on my own…so it’s a little confusing. For now, I’m just trying to spend as much time with my friends here as I can, I guess.</p>
<p>These are pretty reasonable thoughts that I’ve been reading over.</p>
<p>I’ll be a freshman this year and I’m very excited for college. My summer has been pretty boring, except for regents week, which was like a little slice of heaven (world cup, sleepovers, carnival, perpetual blaze, and just the physics final to ‘worry’ about). Then I started working full time at a job where I pretty much do pre-calculus from 7:00am to 4:00pm and things kinda slowed down. I’ve been on some great weekend roadtrips to cities within a few hours drive, but I haven’t clocked much pool time or been to many all night campfires during the weekdays. I end work after this friday, so I’m pumped to enjoy the last week and a half before going to college. </p>
<p>Also, I’ll miss my ex-girlfriend a lot. We were absolutely perfect together. We already broke up, due to me peacing for college, but we’re still very good friends.</p>
<p>Then I’m anticipating college being a blast. Lot’s of new kids to meet and opportunities to be had. My main reason for going to college was to start a band, but I’m becoming increasingly interested in my major (mechanical engineering) and am considering ‘going pro’ at it. I’m talking about ‘front row class participation and taking notes’ pro, with some humble research ambitions to begin my college experience. We’ll see if I can follow through with that. </p>
<p>I haven’t really prepared at all, such as shopping, except for a laptop and new guitar… what more could I need?</p>
<p>^ I know how your feeling, and I bet many others do also…</p>
<p>But I will be an incomning freshman this year, and I have to say, this college start has been a bad experience for me. I have been college jumping this whole summer, from going to a little town school, to a big 10 college, to a different country (U.K, london) and touch downing a hour and some away from my house. </p>
<p>I just want to get away from here, is that such a bad thing? I want to leave everything I know behind and start a new adventure. I get bored easily, so I continually like to find things to do and I enjoy change and the uncommon. I lost a great friend, and I really want to gain some great new friendships. I like the fact it is like a new beginning. </p>
<p>I will work hard in and out the class room and try to join any and every club the catch’s my eye, as long as it is safe! I dont know, I feel like the main reason for going to college is to run away from this life, in which is for the wrong reasons. I am satisfied with my life, but it seems like its time to step away from my parents and start a new chapter, and not look back. I am not in the college of my first choice although I was accepted to every college I applied to… I guess this was meant for me, and next year I plan to transfer to a college of my choice.
YUPP. =PP</p>