As we continue days, weeks and months in our first year of college by ourselves; we are coming across similar and different experiences from each other in each school. Lia, Marissa, and I have all experienced and continue to experience the lack of friends, and the lack of things to do. One difference we have encountered is how we feel about our individual schools.
We came from a really small town and a small school at that. In our high school we had a lot of friends and also enemies. Clicks were not common because the school was small that we all had to stick together. Also, most of the people we went to high school with we also went to grade school with them. Some of us stayed friends and others became enemies. My sisters and I are feeling that we don’t have a lot of friends at college. It’s hard to come to a school that no one knows you, and when your not use to clicks it’s a little harder too. In the small colleges that we each chose to go to clicks are present. We keep seeing that the jocks, girls and guys, mostly stay with their sport. I just have to ask myself, “Why stay with your sport when there are so many other people you can meet?”
It’s also harder sometimes to make friends because my sisters and I always made friends together. They would voice their opinion on someone if they felt like they didn’t like them. Going to a school without them is a little harder because we want to make the right choice, but we are slowly realizing that each of us are not always going to be there to help us make our decisions. We have to try to make the right decisions on friends and we have to realize that we no longer need each other’s approval.
We are also realizing that there is not a lot to do around campus. Every weekend we see students go home and return that Sunday, but we wonder why they go home when their parents are paying for them to stay here. This results in the schools not having a lot for the students to do on weekends on campus because most of the other students go home. The students who chose to stay on campus suffer because there is nothing set up like big schools have. You can only do so much on the campus until you go mad. I am one of those people if I have been in one place for too long of a time I will go nuts and my whole mood changes. All of us would just like to see a little bit more activities conducted on campus on the weekends. Maybe if other students see that it’s fun to stay here; I believe a lot of them would start to stay on the weekends.
There is one thing my one other sister and I don’t see eye to eye on, and that’s our schools.Marissa loves her school, and that’s good for her. She can see herself going to that school for all four
years. Lia and I on the other hand cannot really see ourselves staying at the same school for our whole
four years. Though, more then likely we will not transfer because we don’t want to deal with that hassle
of transferring and having to meet new friends. We also have met a lot of great friends. I think once we
get older it will be different and we could go out on the town and have more fun. Overall, I love how
Marissa loves her school so much, and I also love how Lia and I are so close. It is wonderful that our
schools are so close to each other and we can hangout anytime we are free. I love my sisters and always
will.
