After the first couple of weeks life starts getting back to normal. You develop a routine, you decide whether a dry erase board with all your appointments is really necessary, and the friendships you’ve made start to set in. This is when trips to go back home if you live close enough start being planned and by now you can even get around campus without getting lost. Don’t be fooled, this is not the time to slow down and start thinking that things are going to get easy from now on, as I learned the hard way.
At this time in my life I thought I was finally getting everything right, that things might get easy and I might be able to coast for a few weeks, but of course everything went wrong from alarms that didn’t ring, to getting sick for the first time while away from home, and no one can forget the first time they lock themselves out of their room with only a towel for protection between them and the whole word. Not to mention the honeymoon period for you and your roommate is just about to expire.
What can you do to avoid life crisis after life crisis? Accept that disaster is inevitably headed your way, in other words: anything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong. Every time you leave your room without keys double check that it’s not locked, keep Dayquil and Nyquil on stand-by when the flu hits, set up more than one alarm to wake you up, and lastly make a conscious effort to keep the grumpiness directed at your roommate to a bare minimum. It’s important to keep a positive attitude and smile even when you don’t feel like it.
I have really enjoyed reading your blog thus far, being a senior it was really cool to look back and think "oh yeah, that happened to me too." I think your blog is really good at showing how we can all have similar experiences but think we are the only ones feeling it. I also like how your blog is set up like a survival guide, a survival guide would have been great when I was a freshman!
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