Hello again! Long time no talk :) I could tell you that I haven't written in a while because of my extremely busy and important schedule... but I would be lying. The truth is, I just haven't had much to write about until now! So, college has been the overriding theme in my life seeing as it is the next big step I have coming. I am both nervous and excited.. This can be seen clearly by the fact that my room is a maze of boxes which have been packed a month too early. I tried to nonchalantly convince myself and my family that my early packing was a strategic and mature move designed to maximize moving efficiency. However, as I dig out my toothbrush from the bottom of a box every morning, I am realizing that my early packing was definitely a result of being an over eager girl who still feels as though she is only playing at going to college. Yesterday my friend came over and we talked about the fast approaching school year and we discussed our goals for the year. Because I am going to be going through so much change (moving aways and living on my own... and feeding myself), I had a lot more goals that usual. My friend told me something that really helped my mindset. I was telling her about my worries of not making friends or becoming depressed and she said "all you can do is enjoy what is..." That one sentence cleared up a lot for me. The main idea is that you can't control what goes on around you, you can only control the way that it effects you. I hate to sound so wanna be groovy white-girl, but I think that that is going to by my "mantra" for the year. Seeing my friends who have spent one year away at college has made me especially nervous. Some of them really enjoyed it, but some of them did not. My dad tells me that you just have to get through the ups and downs of the first year to really settle into college. My goal is to not only go through them, but to enjoy them as much as I can. Being the nosy youngest child that I am, I studied some of my older friends as they went to college for things that I should and should not do. I noticed that when people get lonely and discouraged, they have a tendency to fall into bad habits such as only eating ice cream and binge watching TV in their dorm room. I am well aware that I have the very same tendency to do this but when you live at home, you have a mom to kick you out of the house and make you go for a run. I decided that the only way to prevent this is to start building good habits before I leave. I started by exercising more regularly, limiting my electronic use, eating better (kind of) and spending more time outside. Hopefully, if I get into the habit of doing these things now, it will feel like the natural thing to do when I'm away. I'm sure I'll still be writing this blog when I leave so I guess you'll find out if it worked in a month ;)
P.S. I did not proof read this so please excuse the mistakes :):)
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AuthorHey, it's Kerry:) I have 2 older sisters and they both started a blogs... so naturally (being the little sister) I joined the bandwagon. So here I am! I hope you enjoy, if not... well go find something else to do. :) Archives
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