If you had to use one word to describe the first week of college it would be lonely. Not lonely in a physical sense, because you’re surrounded by people a majority of the time. Roommates kind of make privacy a rare and special thing. College in lonely in the relationship sense. You just spent the good majority of your life or at least High School forging relationships. Be it family, close friends, significant others, even teachers. When you leave for college you leave all of these things behind to come and try again. Nobody starts college with an automatic best friend you can tell all your personal things to, or have someone to just give you a hug when you need it. You’re left without those things and people that held you together, and it’s lonely. At my graduation, one of our speakers called graduating high school a false crest. You worked all that time to make it to that point, but that’s not the end of your journey. Starting college and thinking about spending another four years in school it seems like this process that has no end. Yet this is what we’re here for, working towards yet another crest in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"