College

College has been... interesting. I started my Freshmen year at Orono and found the experience rather confusing. In the movies, they always depict college as almost free from any in groups and out groups. The judgement of others would simply fall away and the freedom to make friends would be reinforced through open and pleasant conversations. I must've been dreaming.

Everything was just so cold and distant. I'd eat alone in the cafeteria, I'd sit alone in class, I'd go shopping and spend my free time alone. I paid so much money every month for the experience, but I'd honestly pay money not to have been so alone. The painful realization that high school never ends defined my experience of my Freshmen year in college. I made a couple of good friends, but decided that taking courses in a smaller college- namely the University of Southern Maine might help bring things closer together for me. And oh man, they did.