<p>I'm excited and anxious for the chance to go away for college, but at the same time - I'm a little ... well ... a good amount scared of being on my own. It's so much easier to be academically prepared for college than it is socially and practically. My mom, for example, loves me to be dependent on her and does my laundry, makes my lunch, and is my backup alarm clock. I suppose that plays into my whole fear of leaving thing, but I wanted your opinions?</p>
<p>Isn't there a little part of you nervous about being alone?</p>
<p>Well, I was alone for four weeks over the summer when I went away. Even though I had to find my own food and wake up on my own, it was the greatest experience ever. I'm just starting to see my withdrawal recede. I can't wait to go back to a similar environment in college.</p>
<p>I'm just a bit worried because there are still a number of things I can't do on my own. I can't do my own taxes. I have uses using a dish washer. The last time I washed my own clothes was like, 3 years ago when I went to Canada on a teen tour and even then they came out soggy and not very clean.</p>
<p>But other than that, I'm really excited to just get out of my town and be independent. I'm working at Columbia this summer and all the freshmen have been arriving and going on their orientation tours, and I'm just so jealous. I want to be a Columbia freshman already.</p>
<p>I'm too busy being bummed out for school (starting tomorrow..:() to be thinking about leaving for college. But I'm totally anxious about applications..</p>
<p>I can feed myself and wash my own clothes--though my parents still have to step in when it comes to cleaning my room. (A couple times they've just gone ahead and done it themselves while I was away. Sure glad I've got nothing to hide! :o ) Also, I've already traveled alone--four weeks in France and three solo plane trips this summer--and so I know from experience what it's like to be without my parents: perfectly okay and very liberating, except when they email me with bad news from home and I haven't got anyone with me with whom I can really talk it over. :(</p>
<p>I am a little worried, though, since my situation is going to be a little different from what it was over the summer (besides the obvious fact that the period of time will be a lot longer). My family will probably be living in Ecuador while I am a college freshman, so 1. communication might be a bit sketchy (phone calls are expensive and not great-quality, postal mail hardly works at all, internet is just fine but lacks the personal touch); and 2. "going home" will mean a thousand-dollar, twelve-hour plane trip and a serious risk of getting really, really sick from the water, like I did last time I went down there. :eek: :( I'll probably see if I can arrange a study abroad year in Ecuador, if my family is still going to be there when I'm a sophomore or junior. (It helps that I love the country, in spite of the water. :p) :)</p>
<p>yeah i'm scared!! i hate high school and am soooo ready to get out, but on the other hand my mom is my best friend and i will be sooooo homesick. i am excited for the independence though and meeting people i can relate to!</p>
<p>I'm a bit scared to leave but it's not so much the being alone thing (although that's really scary too) it's more just having to leave all of my friends and the like.. security bubble that is my tiny all-girls HS.<br>
I've been at the same school for what will be 6 years now. My friends are so amazing and I'm a bit nervous that when I go to college I won't be able to find such close friends or that everyone will be crazy and.. vulgar I guess would be the word ? lol because all of the kids from other schools that i've hung out with have been really.. interesting.</p>
<p>Also I'm a bit worried about having a roommate as I've never lived in the same room as anyone else before (besides on training trips.. and that was only for a week each time) and when I had to on the training trips by the end I was getting really irritated by my friends who I was rooming with, so that doesn't bode well for future long-term roommates haha. I need a significant amount of alone time so hopefully my roommate & I will have really different schedules and won't be i nthe room together all the time</p>
<p>We have corruption and tourists and governors named corzine
We have no good colleges cept p-ton is fine
We cut spending and raise lots of taxes
Everyone in south jersey is dumb to the maxes</p>
<p>eh. yeah. property taxes in my town are through the roof. but still.. it's beautiful and there's like no crime. but that's only my area</p>
<p>i don't really spend much time in south jersey except when we go to our shore house.. which is more in central jersey i guess lol but it doesn't seem too bad. wouldn't want to live there though.. haha but then again there are very very few places i would actually want to live</p>
<p>I am excited because I will get to be on my own, make new friends, play sports, join clubs, decorate my own room, eat when I want, start classes later in the day...</p>
<p>But I am scared because I am going to miss my family dearly, I actually do love them lol.. and my mom does a lot of awesome cooking and she does a lot of the laundry in my household.. and I'm nervous about all the responsibilities I am going to have to tackle head-on.</p>
<p>I'm SO excited and SO deading it at the same time. Mostly because I'm going to have to learn how to keep myself alive haha, and I don't want to think about leaving my friends.</p>
<p>But at this point, just worried about the whole application process...worrying about actually leaving will come later on.</p>
<p>Well there's a reason behind the abnormally high property tax rates in New Jersey - the system of home rule and consequent financial dependence on local taxes for municipal services, especially in the case of public school districts (mine relies on property taxes for nearly 90% of its budget, although that's way above the statewide average of 50%).</p>
<p>I want to leave Jersey until Corzine is gone. I've already written him an email about how much I despise everything about him and how he's turning Jersey into crap, making me want to leave ASAP, and I plan on sticking to that promise.</p>
<p>But until then... Central Jersey represent. =D</p>
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I'm just a bit worried because there are still a number of things I can't do on my own. I can't do my own taxes. I have uses using a dish washer. The last time I washed my own clothes was like, 3 years ago when I went to Canada on a teen tour and even then they came out soggy and not very clean.</p>
<p>But other than that, I'm really excited to just get out of my town and be independent. I'm working at Columbia this summer and all the freshmen have been arriving and going on their orientation tours, and I'm just so jealous. I want to be a Columbia freshman already.
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<p>What company was the teen tour?</p>
<p>As for me, I cant effing wait to get out of here. 0000000007 w000t</p>