<p>As much as I'm so excited to go to college, I really don't think I'm ready to leave home. I feel like I haven't really matured enough to move on in my life. It's not just about leaving home for like months, I can handle that. It's the whole your life will never be the same mentallity. I cried the day I graduated middle school, I'm a kind of person who longs for the past and dreads change. </p>
<p>I'm just so sad that I can't be considered a "kid" anymore. I still get upset I'm older and wish I could go back and do the things I did as a kid. </p>
<p>Granted, I love being able to drive and just go out with my friends all the time, and not have a bed time and being able to go places by myself. </p>
<p>I'm just so scared for all the responsibility, this is going to sound so weird, but I like being young and kind of not responsible for things. I like going on trips with my dad and family and being looked at as the young kid ya know?</p>
<p>This probably makes no sense haha.</p>
<p>Just wondering if anyone else is getting really nervous about moving out...</p>
<p>I think right now I'm more excited than nervous, but it'll definitely be a change. I think you just have to make the best of it and embrace it... you really can shape the experience! </p>
<p>It's weird, you know...sometimes I feel so old and ready to leave. I have a part-time job, I drive, I cook for my family...but then other times, I feel so young. My mom still makes my bed while I'm at school. She packs my lunches, makes me tea when I feel sick... It's going to be different, that's for sure. But I really do think that we ultimate shape our experiences. Once we are at that stage, we'll adapt and we'll be ready!</p>
<p>I feel the exact same way! like i was out with my friends tonight, we went out to dinner and just like drove around, and then I was like this is like college, you get to do whatever you want, i felt so old going out on a SCHOOL NIGHT</p>
<p>and then i came home, and realized I love coming home to my family and stuff, and then watched american idol with them while doing my homework, i just love weeknights when we all watch tv together you know?</p>
<p>I think this is one of the flaws of our society...we're coddled and held close our whole lives, and then the day after graduation we're pretty much thrown to the lions.</p>
<p>I'm excited, but I'm scared witless too. Glad to know I'm not alone.</p>
<p>Y'all... going to college is NOT like divorcing your family! and besides if you are really not ready to be far away , there is nothing wrong with going to your state university and coming home on weekends.
Relax!!</p>
<p>Trust me, I felt/feel the same way. I went to a college that is over a 12-hour drive away from home, and was terrified. I was totally the girl who couldn't even spend the night at a friend's house because I couldn't stand to be away from my family. Now, however, I love being at school and am so glad that I was able to take the leap. Of course, I am still getting anxious about going on a week-long class trip this spring break, but I feel so much more confident that I will live through it than I think I would have been had I stayed as close to home as possible</p>
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<p>College is hardly being thrown to the lions. Especially when parents pay for most of your schooling and expenses while you're there.</p>
<p>^Yeah, except for those of us whose parents are doing the opposite (mine are being quite generous financially, but I have quite a few friends whose parents aren't helping them at all).</p>
<p>"College is hardly being thrown to the lions. Especially when parents pay for most of your schooling and expenses while you're there."</p>
<p>"Thrown to the lions" wasn't referring to money but to emotion. Severing the day-to-day relationship with one's parents (physical affection, shared activities etc.) is challenging for many.</p>
<p>I want to be little again too. Even though I'm only in 9th grade, there are so many little kid things that I wish I had done more often. I didn't play enough.</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel the same way. I was so ready to leave the state and now I want to cling to my mother's leg and never let go. xD Though, I haven't heard back from any schools yet, so we'll see how it goes when I get accepted somewhere.</p>