Personal Essay: Making Friends For Yourself, In My Life

Making friends for myself, isn’t very easy. I like to think of myself not so much as shy but just hard to get to know. Once I came to Akron it was an entirely new experience, because transitioning from a small town with a graduating class of barely one hundred students who knew each other since pre-k, to a large campus 50 minutes away from home knowing not one person is difficult. So once I started to make friends here, it was a blessing. It made me get my mind off of my family and friends that I left at home. This experience had to be my number one because everyone says that the friends you make in college are the ones you keep forever. I would also like to point out that the feeling of living on my own is going quite well. I have two siblings and they are ages 4 and 5 so quiet is nonexistent in my household. I enjoy the feeling of having a room all to myself with no one pestering me about it being clean or having it a certain way. It feels like it is the pre living on my own stage if that makes any sense to anyone. Also, having a room to myself is a luxury. I don’t know how I would have been able to handle another person in my room all the time being loud when I am trying to be quiet, being clean when I am trying to be messy. That is an issue that I didn’t want to have to deal with. Now, I know that if I …show more content…
Training week was fun although it was hot for a few days then cold then hot again which gets really confusing but who doesn’t love Ohio weather, am I right? I enjoyed getting the first week to meet the people that I am going to be living with for the next year and it was really nice having an empty campus like it was the first week. I really enjoy the events and cannot wait until the hypnotist comes because I have heard so many good things and I want to be hypnotized. My short term goal for the month is that, to be hypnotized. Being an EL is starting to feel like I am just a part of this on-campus