PREPARING FOR COLLEGE!! EEEK

There are SO many things to prepare before moving to college!

Orientation, dorm room, books, finacials, and the list goes on!

I could sit here and tell you how to get the perfect dorm room on a budget (infact I did, in a recent post.) I could tell you how to buy your books on Amazon and how not to purchase them until the first week of classes are over. I could even tell you my story with finding a roomate and how to “trust the process” and know it won’t be so bad afterall but, this isn’t why I am here today.

Yes, those things were fun to prepare for, I learned so much within the process of preparing for college but, it turned out they weren’t really that important.

Why I am here today, is to tell you about the things you CANNOT prepare for. I know, I know, harsh. But, you all need to know, within the months, even weeks of moving into college, your life might fall apart (not actually, we are all so blessed) but it will feel like it’s falling apart I am sure.

Within two to three months before moving to college I had so many things thrown at me, I honestly don’t know how I stayed standing.

I pulled acceptance from the Univeristy of Alabama and comitted to the University of Iowa (hard.), I broke up with my boyfriend of 6 years (harder), my family and friends traveled the world leaving me home alone for two weeks, which left me feeling lonlier than I ever had (just. plain. sad). I experienced a spritual awakeing that changed my life (good but, CRAZY), I graduated highschool, I left every activity I had ever known for a summer full-time position as a nanny, and most of all, I stressed about the biggest event to come, College.

All at the same time, my mind was constantly pulled a thousand directions. As my mom would say, I was quite literally “living on a prayer”.

I hope I didn’t scare you away but this was my terrifying truth. It all happened so fast. Out of nowhere, I was blinded by so many obstacles. At the time, I prayed that life would just be “normal” and perfect but silly me, without these experiences my life would be SO incredibly different.

I wouldn’t be at Iowa. Plain and simple. In fact, after my first semester across the country (had I attended Alabama), I would be thousands of dollars in debt, I would not know Jesus the way I do now, I would not be able to handle a long distance relationship that wasn’t pursuing the desires of my heart, and I wouldn’t have spent as much time fixing myself rather than fixing those arround me.

What felt like some of the worst and most confusing events in my life, turned into the greatest, most life changing blessings.

Even looking out the window of Java House makes my heart skip a beat. I am so oddly thankful for the heartbreak and lonliness I felt while preparing for college. It taught me a lot personally but, my messege to the readers of this blog is to persevere.

Whether your college preperation is perfect (I bet it won’t be) or your life falls apart (like I felt mine did). You will persevere.

The college transition is scary but so so so fun! Just know that you are where you are heading for a reason and you will serve a purpose on the Univeristy of Iowa campus whether you see it right away or not.

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