Expectations for College- 

My expectations for college were a lot different than how it’s going now, but not really; I realize that college and high school are nearly nothing alike, but my entire four years of high school I’ve made the honor roll if not honor roll principals list. I was a straight-A student and very intellectual. Now, my work ethic has changed; My classes are harder, my free time feels like crunch time and I ultimately feel like I have to race and juggle between different assignments for all of my classes. I expected hardship but didn’t expect my fall semester to feel like three days instead of fifteen weeks. What has surprised me about my experience so far are the professors. I think it’s funny how most of my professors are ecstatic to learn your name, major, and how far you have come in education and other professors can barely remember your face or presence. I was excited to go to college for two reasons: my degree, friendships, and my dorm. Living in a dorm is much rather like living alone but with a stranger and other strangers around you from different directions of the country; living in a dorm is very humbling. You come to the realization that every single stranger around you was raised either the same as you, which is highly doubtful because everyone does things differently, or raised completely differently from how you were taught to do things. For example, two girls living in a dorm: one girl was raised to put the toilet seat down and the other wasn’t really taught to do that nor does she really care to do so anyway. There are many ways in which living in a dorm can create conflict between people