I'm Going Away To College.

I've just completed my application to grad school in Chicago! I've been to big cities and I love them but I've always only lived in small towns. If I am accepted it's going to be a very big adjustment so I know just what you're going through. When I first moved away to go to college it wasn't as difficult. I actually chose the school I did because I didn't know anyone going there and I would have to make new friends and have new experiences. My roommate was a year older than me so she already had lots of friends and we never got to be close, which I feel was poor judgement on the housing advisor's part. I've always felt they should have put me with another Freshman instead so we would be going through everything together. Good luck to you and I'm sure it will all work out well.

I think it will be quite an adventure to go to school in a different part of the state. I never went to college so never experienced a dorm living situation. I remember moving away from home when I got married. It was a good experience. Harder for my mom than it was for me.

Yes...way back when. I moved into a YMCA with a friend when I first started school. Then we got an efficiency apartment then moved into the dorm. I had the same feelings....I was terrified yet excited. Once I moved in I was fine..and hopefully so will you be just great after the move!

I spent one year away in Germany, but not in a dorm. It was pretty fantastic. enjoy yourself and best of luck!

I never have been to college. If I had I would of been a nervous wreck! The time I moved away from home I moved right in with a boyfriend! We hoped to be engaged and married . After of six months together he told me to move out! We were over and for the first time in my life I was on my own! It was scarey,shocking and took awhile to get used it! It was hard but it at least was a good learning experience! I think it is for alot of people!

I could still remember it as if it were just yesterday (intro violin/remenisce music here)! I was 17, and although I was scared out of my wits leaving a small town, and going into a big city, I was also excited for the change in my life. The next few years was the most exciting for me. Not only did I grew in terms of my academic, I also grew in my education of life.

This is a huge step, it is a life change, and when someone does such big change it is a completely new road to travel, new road, new life, new experiences, I wish you well.

Hello Stephanie. Oh, don't be shocked. Life is challenging and exciting every step of the way. Yes, I had gone through a number of changes during my university years and in the course of my career. In fact, these are steps for improving life experiences.

I didn't move into a dorm, it was twice as expensive as getting my own place. I was so anxious to move out and be on my own! I got a place about a mile from my mother's house (the college was local) and just a couple blocks away from the college. A board atop cinder blocks was my desk and the rest of the room was just a fold-out couch and a table. Kitchen was part of the room and I shared a bathroom with the guy in the next room. That was my first place. I wasn't scared or shocked, I was elated, at least for the first few weeks. Then I had to pay some bills for the first time in my life, buy my own food, and figure out what to do when I had more expenses than money. My college career was short-lived! If only I'd stayed at home...anyway, I do remember moving out to my own place and although it wasn't a good decision for me at that time I learned a lot. It was exciting and scary at the same time.

Please assure yourself that you get a new job and then you leave present job. If you leave job first, it will be crucial for you to write your Resume and face interview. Trust in yourself. God will grant you new wisdom to find better alternatives. I pray for you daily now onwards.

Here where I live, we don't have dorms and stuff like that on the college. But, I remember that 4 years ago, I moved to a new city to make my college and I started to live in my own apartment alone. I like to live alone, so, this was easy for me. The difficult part was because I didn't knew it one person in that new city, so, to make new friends was not easy. I remember that I was very nervous in the beginning, I didn't knew it if I would make fit in the new place, but everything work in the end I guess..