How Attending College Changed My Life

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The transition to attending college really began, for me, at move-in. Before that, I had not even tried to prepare for it, I just decided to figure it all out as it happened. Well that, and I have a huge tendency to procrastinate so I just put it all off until the last second. Attending college has not really changed my life as much as I expected it to. I have been going on through life pretty much the same as I was before arriving at college. A few things have changed such as having to do my own laundry, waking myself up for class, and remembering to eat often enough. So I am having to learn to do things I took for granted before coming to ECU. Of course learning to better to take care of myself is a positive thing. That being said, there

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