Freshman year can be many things…dramatic, scary, exciting, but don’t forget, that nearly everyone here has been through those same experiences.
1. Having to get real serious with your parents when they refuse to leave on Move-In Day
2. Realizing you packed enough clothes for a small army and you have a closet the size of a walnut. And you look at your over-packed duffel like…
3. The awkward meeting of the roommate. Need I say more?
4. Hitting your head for the first week because you’re not used to your nose being inches from the ceiling. And it feels something like this
5. Realizing that Winona doesn’t have a Buffalo Wild Wings or a Chipotle
6. Thinking that what your professor is saying sounds more like gibberish than English
And by the time the first exam rolled around you were like…
7. Acting like you knew where you were going when really you didn’t even know that Pasteur was a real place
8. Counting down the days of cafeteria food
9. Realizing that all of your money has been spent on dorm-delivered Domino’s and scantrons
10. Deciding how to wear your lanyard, which probably held your student ID and a back-up copy of your class schedule
11. Finally appreciating all those years you didn’t have to do your own laundry
But by the end of the year you’re like…
12. Flip flops in the shower–it was a new thing
13. Reflecting on how you’ve been doing since you started making your own decisions
14. But after all the drama, homesickness and tough choices, you realized how awesome WSU is going to be
Leah Dobihal
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