<p>urrr if your boyfriend and b estfriend's going with you I see what you should be afraid of. I was like 12 hours away from home by plane and 12 hours away from my home state by a car. <em>shrugs</em> it willl be good</p>
<p>Yeah, I know I'll get over it. I'm so so very excited, but now, instead of just excited, there's scared there to. Umcp11, I know exactly what you mean...although I like knowing people at my college, it would be nice to be a different person rather than the person everyone knows me as. I agree with pretty much everyone, including all the people who can't wait to get out. I can't wait to leave but part of me wants to live with my parents forever.</p>
<p>umcp, I know EXACTLY what you mean too. I feel the same. I don't know how I'll be in a new environment, it scares me, too.</p>
<p>I think everyone's scared but you get there, meet people, get settled and your over it.</p>
<p>I'm going to miss my cat.
I'm going to miss a few of my friends.
I'm not necessarily going to miss my household, or my family that much, however, I will miss the 'comforts' of home.
I'm an only child, so I'm REALLY going to miss privacy.
I already miss the mundane day to day comfort of high school.</p>
<p>my college is only 1.5 hr drive from home.</p>
<p>My college is going to be a full 6 hours on a plane away... I sort of have mixed feelings about this whole thing. I really want to go and have the chance to meet new people, and do new stuf.. but I'm also terrified ( this is only recently) of never seeing my friends again.</p>
<p>Meh, worrying is just the worst part. It is fun, I went 10 hours away by car and I never really left home for an extended period (without my family) in my life. You all will be fine.</p>
<p>I lived about 15 mins from my school....which sucked...but I never went home to make it seem like I had actually gone away. </p>
<p>Anyway, no doubt the first day especially, you will be thinking, "I wish I was back with so and so". I remember my first afternoon I ate by myself, and just wished I was at home with my boys. That night though, I met everyone on my floor. I can honestly say I haven't wished I'd rather be home than at school since.</p>
<p>Wow, OP your college is only 2 hrs from home. Not that big of a deal, sorry! You can hope in a car and be home before you know it, and your probably still in the same state. Might want to get over it, fast. What about people going across the country, from the east to west coast. Starting a freshman year without knowing anybody in the beginning. Now that would make me a little nervous.</p>
<p>Everyone keeps asking me if I'm scared or nervous (I'm going about six hours away) and I'm like..."No. I've been daydreaming about leaving for college and moving out of the house since I was in the third grade."</p>
<p>I am so ready for a change. I know that anything that's thrown my way...I can totally handle it. I might screw up a few times, but I don't care. Such is life.</p>
<p>I can't wait to screw up. lol! I can't wait to get started.</p>
<p>Chandra, try to remember that you eventually have to grow up and move on and separate from all that's familiar. Unless you want to live in your parents' basement or something. In which case, I wish you luck.</p>
<p>Oh, P.S. I don't like my family, so I can't sympathize. I do, however, LOVE my dogs. I'm going to miss their furry little butts, that's for sure. I'm pretty sure that's the only thing I'm sad or slightly apprehensive about. My pets will be the only reason I come home, I think. I'm totally ready to make new friends in college. The ones I had in high school were not that fabulous, to be completely honest.</p>
<p>And now I'm babbling because it's three in the morning, so goodnight! :D</p>
<p>I'm scared too. I never ever really liked hanging out with people my own age. I've always preferred doing things with my family or older people. I think the thing that will make me homesick the most is not having the little random things that go on because you have a family. Hopefully I'll find some good friends at college though- and maybe even a few old people to hang out with!</p>
<p>im really really excited. im a little bit nervous, mostly that something terrible while happen while im gone (sf --> ny). when i went to my college for summer orientation, one of my dogs died. it was awful not being able to be with my family when that happened. also, im going to miss my little sister. she is 16, so she has to go through two of the toughest years as an only child, which she is not at all used to. but other than that, i really cant wait. </p>
<p>and i have an amazingly awesome family. i will miss them, but they are the kind of people who cant wait for me to leave either, just because they know that i will have fun, even though they are going to miss me.</p>
<p>and ive been away from my family for seven weeks max, and i managed without really being homesick at all. i know seven weeks isnt nine months, but its a start right?</p>
<p>im really excited but nervous/scared at the same time. </p>
<p>my suitemate just sent me a message on myspace and shes like 21 years old and graduated high school in 2004. shes only a sophomore but its still a little intimidating for me. still waiting for my roommate, hopefully shes my age lol.</p>