This truly is starting over. No more high school friends that you meet in the mornings and during lunch to hang out and have classes with. Nothing familiar yet. College is certainly a lot more like being alone than I was hoping. My part of the dorm room was already set up and my roommates was too. She's not that bad but I still don't know her very well. I'm hoping that she will be cool and I will have made a new friend. It's like the first day at a new school except you live at school.
Addison walked in after an early morning class and collapsed onto her bed.
"What's up?"
"I really should've requested a later class time. I will not be able to keep waking up this early."
"I'm sure it's not that bad. No different then when we had to get up in high school."
"Yeah, but this isn't high school anymore. There is a lot more studying and a lot more work to be done."
"I guess that's true but at least it's not 7 classes a day."
She dropped her backpack on the floor by her bed and pulled out some food and a her class book.
I didn't have classes until eleven so I could sleep in for a little bit. Last night I couldn't sleep because it was my first night away from everything I was familiar with and I had no one to be around..... Yet hopefully.
I got out of bed, got dressed, and disappeared out the door with a small bag on my back. I didn't exactly have a plan besides find somewhere to eat.
I decided to text Jordyn, a high school friend who was in Florida for college.
'Hey..... How's college?'
'The art classes are great and my roommate is the bomb. How about you?'
'Still don't know anyone besides my roommate and I haven't had a class yet.'
'You need to socialize.'
'How do I socialize when I haven't had the opportunity to?'
'I guess you wait till the opportunity is presented to you.'
'Not that helpful but thanks anyway'
'I've got class in ten so I'll text you later. Meet people. Luv ya.'
I stop at a nearby Starbucks and grab a drink with a lot of chocolate and coffee and something that is supposed to be a croissant and head towards my first class.
My first class is annoyingly math. I sit as far away from the front of the room as I possibly can and try not to stand out. As students file in the room I look at how distant everyone seems from each other. Freshman college students here are all starting over. No groups have been formed yet and everyone is on an even social level. Until the athletes walk in. Since some sports have early morning practices the teammates have already socialized and made friends with each other. So much for an even playing ground.
Some soccer boys walk in and sit in front of me. I was a soccer player in high school and I made the college team but out practices aren't until two and another later tonight.
At least I have something in common with some of these people but I am still solo until I can actually make friends. This is going to be a fun week.
