My New Life

It’s Thursday morning outside my dorm and I am saying goodbye to my parents.  My mom is crying of coarse and my dad is actually pretty emotional as well.  We say our goodbyes and they set off back for Washington DC.  “Wow,” I think to myself, “I can do absolutely anything that I want.”  An interesting welcome week later (won’t exactly go into details) and a couple of all-nighters and I felt like an actual college student.  It’s hard to think about how I have changed since I’ve been here because I don’t think I have really changed that much.  One thing I know I have become is more independent.  I feel like I am somewhat more of a self-motivated person now than when I first arrived in Ann Arbor.  With nobody to make sure that I do my homework or go to class, I found I needed to be more independent than I was while living at home.  One thing that has somewhat difficult is that I feel like I am bored much more than I did while in High School.  My typical day would consist of going to school from 8-3, staying until basketball practice from 5-7:30, getting home at 9, doing any homework that I had left and going to bed exhausted.  That was my life almost every day.  At college, not only do I find myself much more rested (a major perk), but I feel like I have much less things to do.  Aside from obviously going to school and doing my work, there is nothing that really requires my full energy.  This is a very new thing for me in my life, as I have previously pretty much always been involved with some sort of team that I needed to devote myself to.  I am sure that I will figure out how to spend my free time more effectively, but for now I will just enjoy the rest.