<p>I think the biggest challenge would be being away from home (currently living in Italy) . I’ll enroll in September and I’m already thinking of it. Sometimes also crying because I’ve never lived without my mom. I can’t even dress up without her. !
:(( but we all have to grow up …
USA I’m coming! </p>
<p>My relationship with my parents- will it deteriorate even further? </p>
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- Finding a decent AEROSPACE engineering college that doesn’t care if I have 2 yrs of a foreign language in high school (found two and got accepted, yay!)
- Figuring out how to pay for it (figuring that out, with the help of being a NMSF, hopefully NMF, yay!)
- Adjusting to living many miles from home in a new environment (outcome TBD)</p>
Lol where’s the poll?
Yeah I don’t see a poll… was it a link taken away by the “no link” rule?
paying for it
Pulling the LAYDEES
The scariest thing about college is the anticipation of every thing … Future, classes, jobs, friends,changes at the home you left, and above all is probably realizing that to be thought of as a success you can never live with your parents again( unless you take THEM in!)
I think that my biggest problem will be leaving all my amazing friends behind. I know we’ll still see each other but not as much :/. Also, we recently got a dog and I kinda want to spend more time with him and my family 
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My biggest challenge was getting over my shyness and making friends. I’m friendly but was just really quiet and unsure of myself. I looked for organizations to get involved on campus and found a sorority that was perfect for me. I’ve been a member for over four years now and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I found a sisterhood and a safe place to be me. It really helped my break out of my shell and now I have friends for life. The Greek community is really great and friendly. My organization was more on the small side so I knew each of sisters very personally and that was perfect for me. I loved getting involved in my community like raising funds for breast cancer awareness, volunteering at schools and stadiums, participating in school events like the Greek talent show and greenest boat race. And the party life was amazing I’m not gonna lie haha but yea, hopefully your college experience turns out great like mine did! Just be yourself and work your butt off with studying and exams!! You’re there primarily for your degree but don’t forget to have fun too!!
Hardest part is priorities. Friends from home want priority, family wants priority, grades need priority and social life gets priority. I was able to go out constantly and have fun while still maintaining a 3.7 but most of my friends were not so fortunate. Being away from home isn’t bad(I only moved about 30 miles from home but stay gone for the most part). The biggest challenge I had was finances. My parents made enough money I couldn’t qualify for hardly any help from the government(even in regards to loans) but my parents wouldn’t help me. This lead to me working constantly in attempts to mitigate the amount of unsubsidized loans I had to take. So definitely gotta say partying and paying for school were the toughest hurdles to jump(I later joined a fraternity that helped me even more with grades but made it harder to pay for everything ultimately, even though rent was next to nothing and it provided food 9 times a week)
Social life. I’ve been to public school all my life, and the entire student body here is roughly 1.5x my graduating class in high school. This place is surrounded by nothing, it’s isolated. I grew up in the suburbs…
social life, paying for college
Keeping a 3.5 GPA in engineering.
The math for sure. I’m not necessarily bad at math, but I’ll be an electrical engineering major at Cal Poly Pomona, yet my highest math level is algebra 2. I’m going to try to self-teach myself pre-calculus during the summer at least.
At the University of Pennsylvania, I found that the hardest part of going to college was being so far away from home… Creating a social life was also very difficult, but doable.
I want a job that is in high demand — a job that both my parents and can be proud of.