College Life

[The Fonz]

Oh, so my last semester of school? Where I lived off-campus and was responsible for bills and rent and school. I live in the "real world" now and am responsible for bills, rent and the federal loans my parents took out. I also knew plenty of people in your position.

While going to college and living in the real world did you have to learn to live with someone that you spoke with once over the phone before living basically 24/7 with that person. Actually, I basically lived with 20 people I never knew before. Another 150 strangers were living above me, all the same age with basically all the same goals to have as much fun as they could, while getting the grades to stay in this place. I was in a city I only visited twice before that, those are very basic lessons, not ones I really even count. The biggest lessons I learned are intangible, I'd never trade that experience for anything in the world.

This part is definitely true for me. I only visited my "real" college campus once before attending (St. Cloud State). Living on the dorm taught me so much more about social interactions and people than living with my family at a community college. It was cooler at St. Cloud because I was with people in similar situations and we sort of formed a society around college. But living off campus I learned many things, important things, slower than I did when I was at college.