<p>I love college.</p>
<p>How could you love Ohio?</p>
<p>Ohio...ew.</p>
<p>Have you guys even been to Ohio? I used to live there...it's a nice place. Oberlin is in a nice location.</p>
<p>college is CRAZY</p>
<p>Well most of ohio might suck, but they do have the best amusement park in the world (cedar point).</p>
<p>And I get to go to Cedar Point free as part of orientation. And Oberlin is the best college ever.</p>
<p>Give it a month or two and become jaded. Miss your parents. Make new friends. Weed out the ones who are useless or who could not make it as associates at the very least. Establish connections, build your network of associates and close friends, and then, plan accordingly. Divide and conquer. And then, with your outstanding developed resilience and new maturity from leaving home and entering college, get over the first quarter/semester and continue maturing under different conditions and in different respects until you become the powerful, Machiavellian individual/adult you had came in wanting to be. It is the ideal. Tell me if you will love college then, fiend!</p>
<p>Aww, don't be so hard on her!</p>
<p>Thanks tetris :)</p>
<p>"And I get to go to Cedar Point free as part of orientation. And Oberlin is the best college ever."
Nice :)</p>
<p>No problem Kriti. I actually like Ohio FWIW.</p>
<p>I love college too! yaaaaaaay!</p>
<p>Yay college! :D. Why do you like OH, tetris?</p>
<p>How'd you find out about Oberlin and why'd you choose it?</p>
<p>college FTW!!!!!!!!</p>
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Give it a month or two and become jaded. Miss your parents. Make new friends. Weed out the ones who are useless or who could not make it as associates at the very least. Establish connections, build your network of associates and close friends, and then, plan accordingly. Divide and conquer. And then, with your outstanding developed resilience and new maturity from leaving home and entering college, get over the first quarter/semester and continue maturing under different conditions and in different respects until you become the powerful, Machiavellian individual/adult you had came in wanting to be. It is the ideal. Tell me if you will love college then, fiend!
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ahahah, this made my day</p>
<p>CurlyFry -- Your enthusiasm for Oberlin is great, and I hope you'll love it as much as I did (several decades ago).</p>
<p>Still, the person who said "give it a month or two" is right in some respects. The first few weeks of any new experience are often a rush of giddy excitement. Then things settle down and reality sets in. That's when you're vulnerable to the blues. No place is perfect, not even Oberlin, and little things can begin to nag -- maybe tensions with a roommate, an unhelpful prof, or bureaucratic problems with scheduling or financial aid that don't seem to get resolved quickly. I'm not saying any of these will happen, but you should not be surprised if something does. Many first-years get homesick to some degree, and I can imagine that the challenge is even greater for international students. I've lived in other countries for long periods of time, and the initial "high" was always followed, a month or so later, by a kind of crash when the unfamiliarity of the new place really took hold.</p>
<p>If this happens, hang in there! Oberlin is worth it. You made a great choice, one I hope my own daughter will soon be making. By the end of the first semester, it should begin to feel like home. And you'll have a fantastic experience that you'll remember all your life.</p>