Embrace presence of peers from home
I thought this was college, not high school. Graduating from a local high school, 50 percent of your graduating class inherits USC as well. Everywhere I turned, a new Lexington face greeted me with a smile and a wave.
I wanted to escape high school when arriving to college. Anger seethed within me at first, but I have finally decided on a new emotion: happiness.
That is correct; I am happy that I am attending college with 50 percent of my high school class. College is daunting, so seeing several common faces sporadically throughout my collegiate experience is comforting.
I find that I have the best of both worlds. I am rooming with two people not from my high school. However, I still grab the occasional lunch with a Lexington Wildcat. It is a little slice of home in a new world.
So is attending college with a great deal of people from your high school comforting or disastrous? In order to answer, I asked myself a different question: Do I love my home? Yes.
To students in the same situation, embrace the fact that you are at a college where home can peek through. There is still plenty of new to be had, even if you find yourself surrounded with the old.
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