Heather Rozmus blogs about her new life in college

The transition from being big, bad seniors who run the school to becoming scared, wee freshman again is hard to handle. We've all done it from elementary school to middle school to high school, but college is a completely different story. Being thrown out of our element, our home, the place we feel most comfortable, is a scary experience in and of itself. Not to mention we're all on our own for the first time in our lives. No teachers are going to chase after us for work, or yell at us for missing class. The only thing keeping us from failing out of school is ourselves. Never before has this kind of responsibility been put on our shoulders. We are the scared little freshman, trying not to gain the pesky freshman 15 and working to figure out who we are and what this place means to us. There's so much we have to learn, not only from our classes, but from within ourselves. In high school it was easy to just go with the flow and be whoever everyone else had thought you were your whole entire life. But now that we're here, away from all that, those little bubbles we used to live in, we have a chance to reinvent ourselves. We can be who ever we want to be, and that's the most comforting part about this place. No one expects us to be anything we're not. It might take a while to figure out just who exactly we are, but that we can do on our own time, when we're ready.