How to: College
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College is this scary big entity that you may have no idea how to survive. Every day is a new day with new mistakes and new lessons. I wanted to help others ease into this time of life so I decided to write down some of the lessons I learned. I will be publishing by event, meaning one section on senior year, one on move day, etc. I really hope this helps someone out there. The goal of this is to ease some of the fears people have about college.
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