Dear Students,
I would just like to say that it has been a pleasure working with you all this semester. Best of luck next year on your new journey! Shakespeare once said, "Above all to thine own self be true." (Hamlet) Remember- find what you love to do and then get paid for it!
Best of Luck,
Mrs. Sundberg
I'm sure you're all excited to embark on your new journey at college next year. However, I'd like you to take a moment to read a blog below that touches on some things you all may be feeling before you leave the nest. Please reflect on your own fears or concerns for your freshman year at school and beyond. This is your last blog entry, so make it count.
http://myusearchblog.com/my-freshman-fears-concerns
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my feeling towards college are very mixed. i feel excited and nervouse all at the same time. I personally dont think i am ready to leave as much as i want to leave smithtown. i think that i need another year living with my parents. when i finally get to college i am going to be a nervous reck im going to be scared my room mate is bad or wont talk to me and im scared i wont take school serious and i will just party away. im also scared that i will make no friends. college is a scary place. we go from being the big seniors to the little freshman and it is going to be scaryier then we think. i do not want to go to a college with anyone else from smithtown i want to have a fresh start with my life.
As we enter the final semester of our high school career, I am starting to think a lot more about college. In 7 months, I will be in my dorm, looking at my roomate who I hope is not a psycho, and be completely on my own. While this is extremely exciting and I cannot wait to enter a new stage of my life, I do have some fears. What if my roomate is crazy or a slob or both? What if I get homesick and just want to go home and shower without having to wear flipflops? What if the courseload is too much and I can't keep up. However, before I let all these crazy thoughts scare me, I have to remember this is in every freshmans mind and that is part of the college experience. It is all about stepping outside of the box and your comfort zone, and if I am able to do that I will hopefully be in for the best four years of my life.
I think we are all looking forward to leaving. <- (period) Maybe when it gets closer to moving out day, some heart strings will be pulled, plucked, or torn out, but change is always good (insert separation of blog and state). For my own personal fears, I guess the animal sacrificing roommate. It is like a new beginning, having to find new friends, make some new..."frienemies"... I believe they are called... But everyone else there is looking for the same thing, so in the end, it shouldn't be too bad.
When it comes down to it, I am excited to start new. My entire high school career has been worth it to get into the school I want to go to. My freshm,an year of college begins the rest of my life. I am concerned that I will not be good enough. I fear that regardless of how much I try I will never make it to the top. I am inevitbaly afraid of failure. I am afraid that I will never fit in either. Throughout high school I was never the outcast, but I was never "in" with any crowd. I floated. I have friends, and memories, but in college i really want to make those endless bonds. There are times when i do contemplate the college decision I am making. I am an AP student, I did very well in high school, I could probably get into a prestigious school; so i wonder if going to FIT is the right decision. The only thing that makes me change my mind is looking back at high school and realizing that all i wanted to do was fashion, business, my DECA manual, go to my internship. This must mean I am on the right track. I am excited to come back in ten years and be successful, prove that everything is worth it. I am not going too far away, but I am going to a place of wonder and excitment, and I can't wait to experience every bit that New York City has to offer. I am ready for college.
I am very excited to start a new chapter of my life and embark on a new journey. I am very nervous but I think that is normal considering im going to be pretty far away from home. I have decided to go away to school in florida at the University Of Tampa. The thing I am most nervous about is recieving a roomate but I think that everything happens for a reason, and your roomate does not always need to be your bestfriend. I hope that I develop strong time managment skills and learn how to balance school and friends. I hope I love my expirence and stay away for the next four years.
Courtney Widmer
Period 2
I am a strong believer in the saying "Everything happens for a reason." Whatever school I chose, I feel that it will work out. Every teen is so psyched to go away to school, move out of their house and get away from their parents. For me, I am sure that I want to go away but I am going to miss all of the things that will be left behind. For example, my parents, sister, friends and dance. I know that I am going to be homesick at first, but I will learn to deal with it. I am very excited, yet nervous to start a new beginning of my life.
-Nicole Williams Period 2
My major concern when going to college as a freshman is soccer and school. I'm going to play soccer there's no doubt in my mind; and my ability to balance the two is daunting. Also, I'm worried about the team, if I'll play, how I'll play, how I'll like the team and the coach. I'm worried if I'll like the school, the size, the people, the town, the area, pretty much everything. So yea I'm excited, but I'm fairly nervous about embarking.
Mr. Chris Grenzig
I am definitely nervous about college. I am scared becasue i still do not know what I want to major in. I am also nervous because I only applied to schools in New York and i feel like I might have made a mistake and want to go somewhere out of state. I am a little worried about having a roommate that I don't like but I will be more concerned with those things when the time comes. I am very excited for High School to end and to be going off to college so I can only hopw i do well and make the best of my expierence.
-Ally Simeone Period 2
I cannot even begin to describe how happy I am to be leaving this school in 5ish months. I really have never been more ready for anything in my life. But of course, I do have some concerns going into it. I am afraid of finding my group of people that I will mesh with and taking math courses. I suck at math majorly. I just don't get it, it's like reading japansese to me. I am also worried I am going to get a roomate thats a stuck up bitch or has no considerantion for others. I feel like I am ready for college though and ready for the new challenges that lie ahead of me.
My first concern about graduating high school, is that I don't know what college I will be attending. Once I get to college, I my first fear is that I am going to get a physco roomate that I don't get along with. i am also worried that I work load will be too much, and I will wait until the last day and not get anything done. I am also worried that I won't know anybody at my college and i'll have to make all new friends. However I am excited about going off to college and living on my own for the first time.
Stephen Pulaski Per. 2
As I enter into my last semester of high school, I am so excited about college. The time when I pack my bags and leave can't come quick enough. I've made the most out of my high school career and I'm very proud of what I was able to accomplish. I feel like I left a mark on my school and I hope that I can do that in college as well. I was the quiet girl in high school and I'm most excited to change that about myself come September. I want to be a new person and I'm excited to meet people who won't know what I was like in high school. I'm worried about my roomates and even where I will be living. I'm not a big fan of the residence halls and the common bathroom but I know that I will be able to adjust. I believe that "Everything happens for a reason." If I said I wasn't worried about choosing the right college I would be lying. I applied to so many schools and I'm lucky that I was able to get into all of them, but now my decision is even harder. I want to make the right choice and be happy so that I don't need to transfer. My last fear is about the people who will be attending the same school as me. I want to go somewhere where no one from Smithtown goes to, but in the same respect I hope to make new friends. I've waited so long for college and my new journey will soon begin.
Gabriella Sehne, Period 8
I can't wait to go to college, actually. Since I, like the writer of the article, tend to hang out with Drama Club and band geeks, finding a place to fit in is a little bit worrisome to me because I'm not actually talented in music or acting, I just go for the fun of it. But college is such a bigger pool of people, diversity and all that, you're bound to find someone to hang out with. And my roommate can't end up being THAT bad. I'm not worried. I'm excited.
For almost 12 years, I have sat in school desks learning all I needed to prepare myself for one thing, college. As my senior year reaches the halfway mark and college decisions finally start to make their way into my mailbox, college seems to be right around the corner. I honestly don't know what to expect from college; I feel as if college is what you make it. Of course I am anxious to pick the school I will spend the next four years of my life at, who my roommate will be, what my classes and professors will be like, and if I will even enjoy being away from my family. College will be a whole new experience. However, I feel like college is one of the best experiences anybody could have. I want to go away for school, so doing so means becoming one hundred percent independent. I'll have to cook for myself, clean for myself, all while I study for my classes. Even with all the anxiety I have with leaving my life behind in Smithtown, I know college can only change me for the better. All the work I'll do, all the stress I may fight against, it will all lead to a better future because of the education I will receive.
Where ever I wind up going, no matter what school I will have the same three fears. I hope I get a respectable roomate. Someone who can atleast hold a conversation with me, not some world of warcraft player. Next I'm alittle nervous about the workload. What if I cant keep up? Does that mean college is just not for me? Lastly I hope I can find something on campus that appeals to me, like a club.
Bryan Martin Per.2
the look on freshman year in college is an experience that dose make me shake in my boots a little but but the truth is the transfer from highschool to college is one of the best things that could ever happen to someone, its a fresh start for everyone and no one should be affraid. some thing that kids could be affraid of is the new kids and all the hard work becasue lets face it highschool is a joke when it comes to work. the amount of time and effort used to study and do well makes kids go crazy and being in a sourounding that kids are not addapted to can give that uncomftorble feeling of dought.
I really don't know how i feel about going to college next year. It is deffinitly going to be an expierience just trying to live on my own without my parents there 24/7. But I think that it's something that I have to do in order to "grow up". I actually don't want to grow up. But I guess that comes with time. I'm deffinitly a little skeptical over the whole roomate situation. Thats going to be interesting. I need to do good in college, and I hope that I learned my lesson from doing bad in high school. This is even more important because this is working towards a career that iwill have until I retire. I don't want to leave everything that i know, but i guess i have no choice. It's also kinda scary that the people that you know in high school, you might never see them again. This should be an expierience though.
Chris McCormack Period 2
I've been dreaming of leaving my house and venturing out on my own ever since I can remember. I've always been a very independent person - never relied on anyone too much. My parents and I would always joke around about how much they were excited to see me leave. But now that the time is drawing near, their jokes aren't too funny anymore and I'm not so positive about my moving on up. I just can't help but think that I might fall. What if I fall? No one is going to be around to pick me up this time around.
However, although I have some minor and common fears (room mate drama, course overload, homesick, etc.) my greatest fear is of a change in heart. What if I get there, and settle into my dorm, and pack away all my things, and begin taking my classes. What if half way into taking my courses I decide I don't evne like it here? That I don't even want to major in this? That I don't even like this state? What happens then? Because in reality, you're stuck. Once you've made that decision, there you'll stay. Commitment can be a scary thing. Especially when this commitment will be afecting the rest of your life.
All we can do is prepare ourselves and hope for the best. If you've researched into your field enough, and you want it enough then you will, without a doubt, succeed. Overall, I am ready to leave and go out on my own. I'm ready to start my career, and push off into the rest of my life. I'm ready to free fall and just enjoy the ride.
Nicole Savastano
PD. 2
I keep telling myself, and others, especially my parents, that I am ready to go to college and move away. For the most part, I believe this. I feel that I learned so much in school and at home that will allow me to make it on my own. The one thing that I am sacred about is missing things. I come from a huge family, and for the most part they all live on Long Island. I have over 15 cousins, that rang in various ages from newborn to 11, and if I go away for college ill completely miss them growing up. I’ll have to go from seeing them at least once a week, to only seeing them on extended weekends and holidays. The other thing I don’t think I’m ready for is actually living on my own. I mean I know that I feel like I’m ready, but why would I want to leave such a perfect place. My mom does all the cleaning and cooking and my dad is always there to help me with homework and studying, and also for buying me everything that I need, and for the most part want. Once I go away for college I’m going to have to stop relying on others and start to rely on myself. I mean I suppose this isn’t a bad thing, and everyone should learn how to rely on themselves, I just don’t know if I’m ready yet.
Jackie Loveland
Pd. 8
I think that college will definatly be a new and difficult experience. Living on my own without my family or any of my friends will definatly be a chalange at first, but I think that I personally will enjoy the space. Because of this new freedom, there are a lot of things I'm going have to learn to conttrol. For example, I'm going to be in charge of making choices in what to eat and when to eat it. I must be able to keep up a healthy routien and find some from of physical activities. I understand the work load will be more intense, but its an experience that is needed.
Julianne Russo per 8
Its hard to believe that in only 5 short months I will be graduating. And in only 7 months i will be away at college living on our own. The idea honestly scares me, leaving smithtown the place i've called my home for the past 17 years. As much as i want to leave its hard to see myself in a dorm with none of my home friends or family around. My biggest concern is getting a roomate that doesn't like me or is werid and won't be able to live with. Or keeping up with the work. College doesn't care who you were in high school its time for me to start as a new person, stepping outside my comfort zone hoping for the best 4 years of my life.
I've been waiting for my first day of college since I buckled my seatbelt to take my sister to college six years ago. I'm staying home for the dorming and distance is not on my list of fears/excitements. However, I'm scared I won't mingle or make new friends and become a hardcore study bookworm. I love the atmosphere of highschool (for the most part) and will remember these days forever. Yet, I am more than excited for what college and how it is going to change me as a person and what i will learn through the years.
I think college is a very scary place and the closer it get to the end of 2nd quater I'm get more and more nervous. It good to know that every other freshman whose going away to college are think the same things,how am i going to do my laundry, homework and foodshop and maintain good grades all on my own. It a scary thing to think about but i feel that i will become use to everything quicker than i think. It's going to be a huge step from being a big senior to a scared freshman. I know its going to be hard getting use to things hopefully I'll be able to handle it in the end.
Jackie Saggese
period 8
This blog defiantly covers all of the fears that some people will face going into college. I think just about everyone will have at least one fear about their freshmen year of college. Whether it is about your roommate or how difficult the classes are going to be. I feel it is best to go into college with a positive attitude in facing this brand new situation which no one has really encountered before. After all I doubt that everything could wrong and most of your fears will go away. My biggest fear is what my roommate will be like and how will we get along. But I think as long as I try my best in whatever situation it may be and have positive outlook everything will work itself out.
I have mixed feelings about going off to college next year. First off, I have not yet decided where I am going to college yet. That is the first decision to make. Like most kids, I have a few fears about moving on to college. Will I get stuck with a roommate I cannot stand or will I get a person I get along with and become extremely close with. My second fear is the workload, because throughout high school I have been the person who puts off everything I have to do and I know that will only hurt me in college. I am also excited about moving on though, as it is a huge step. For years now, I had been wishing my parents would back off and give me more freedom, which is exactly what college gives me.
Matt Scicchitano Per 8
for me i am as excited as ever to go to college more so than nervous. I can't wait to meet new people, start all over and show my true colors. I have been waiting for this moment to come for some time and it has finally arrived. Of course i'm nervous about my roommate and not staying on top of my studies but there really isn't anything i can do about it till i'm there so why worry about it now. I know that everything will work itself out in the end and i will have the life that i have been longing for for the past few years.
I am very excited to go to college. it's so wierd to think that my life is going to change forever. I can't beleive that there are people I am never going to see again from high school. I know i will love being away from home since im used to going away and traveling. However, Im also scared to death. I'm scarred i will have a crazy roomate whoplays video games during there entire day. I'm scarred that i wont find something i like to do. I don't know if i want to rush a sorority or join a skating team but i hope i find something i love and meet new people. I'm also scared I wont be able to keep up with the work. I guess its good to be scared. it keeps you on edge and I know that I am ready to take this step in my life. I still remember my first day of high schoool where i coulnt understand why the second floors of our school doesn't connect.! I can't beleive we are all seniors. Im excited to have a fresh start and meet new people. I hope i love it! and i hope i pick the right college. mostly, i hope my parents are willing to do my laundry since i have no idea how.... kidding.
My feelings toward college are mixed. I am very excited to graduate high school and move on to the next journey in my life but at the same time I am very nervous about entering college. I have so many unanswered questions like what is college like. Will I be accepted? These questions hopefully eventually will go away. Im going to miss all my friends from Smithtown but I cant wait to not wake up at 6 am every single morning. I am also ready to start my career and hopefully make a future for myself. I am ready for a fresh start and a new beginning.
Persoanlly I cannot wait to go to college. After 4 years of high school im just ready to move on, meet new people, and persue my career. My only fears are really the work loads. I mean high school is on and off when it comes to the amount of work we have but ive always found ways to get around it. Unfortunatly i will not be able to do this in college when we have massive amounts of work and i cant afford to get bad grades in college.
I too have mixed feelings for college. I think it's going to be great to really get that first step towards my career and I can't wait to meet new people (even though I have decided to stay home.) It's still a new and exciting experience, however, I am worried about the amount of work and effort that really does need to be put into college. I am going to St. Joseph's College, and basically, I need to get at least a B in every class in order to stay in the class. Otherwise, I cannot be what I want to be when I grow up, a psychologist. I think I can do it though, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be hard to adjust at first, but I know I can handle this.
I do not have many fears for college. I just don't think I will like the college environment. I don't like big parties and I like private space. I also don't hate my parents like most of my peers. I think I will be alright with my school work. I don't have much left to say... I hope that this will be the first real chapter in my life long goal in my career in biochemistry.
James Lopilato
My biggest fears and concerns deal with leaving the people that I have learned to know and learned to love since I moved here in third grade. I know people say school sucks and that it is horrible, but it really isn't. School is the place we saw our best friends, made new friends, and learned to learn, laugh, and just have a good time. When I go to college, I don;t know exactly how well I will be at making friends. I have always been the kind of kid that lets others come to him as a friend, not the kind of person that will come up in someone's face and be like, "Yo, I'm Dewey!" It willbe nice to make new friends, but it'll be hard to lose the friends you have seen over the years.
Dewey Foley
In the beginning of this year, if you asked me how I felt about college, I would say extremely overwhelmed. Now that my apps are in and I'm waiting to hear back from a few schools still, I'm more nervous that I won't pick the right one.
I am so excited to get away from home, but at the same time, concerned that being away won't be any better.
It worries me when I talk to friends of mine that are already in college and they tell me that they miss being home. I honestly can't see missing it too much, but maybe a little. My sisters and brother will be the only thing I truly miss.
The thing that I am most concerned about is having to find a salaried job right out of college. I'm sure the work will be hard, but that is given to me along with everything I need to succeed. What if I don't find the right internships and job opportunities. Those will be must harder.
I'm scared of those things that can happen to me in college that I can't control. Everything else I've got hands down. It's the fear of the unknown that I am not sure about.
Cristina Capone Period 8
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