A Fresh Start

          The chilling breeze coming from the window, the scent of morning grass, the warmth of the early sunlight flooding the room, the noise of clashing dishes and pans together with the wail of the boiling kettle, the delicious smell of eggs and bacon and the morning news in TV. Does it sound familiar? It sure does. After the never ending hangovers of summer, all are hands up for the first day of school. At last! We’ve all back to reality, to stop dreaming fairytales, to stop imagining beautiful sceneries with fresh air, lashing trees and picturesque  place. No more white-sand beaches. No more late night movies. No more hangouts. It has all ended. We’ve all back to reality, to take off our beach outfits, to wake up early in the morning, to gaze at our books, pens on the desks, papers everywhere. Kiss Boracay goodbye and say hello to MSU-IIT.

        Just like any first day of school, I was awakened as early as 5 in the morning to a day full of packing and loading up. It wasn’t an ordinary first day because it was my first day being in college; being in a university; being in the portals of MSU-IIT. It’s hard to believe that I am now at this stage, but it sure it does.

        No more cute pink pencil case in the bag, no more cute wheels attach in the bag, no more characterized lunch box, no more plenty books and notebooks to bring. It’s just a piece of paper, one pen, one binder notebook and sometimes a book. Yes! I could define college as that.

        It is pretty nervous about huge transformation. The difference between college and high school is like one extra to the other. Because in college there are some things that are pleasant but not pleasant in high school, otherwise there are things that are unpleasant in college but very pleasant in high school.

       As I enter the gates in MSU-IIt, mixed of emotions run in my veins: eagerness, courage, excitement and most of all nervous. I was nervous because I do not know how to socialize. I really don’t know how to make the first move. Well it’s very important in college to be able to socialize with others, to share yourself to others and to make a new set of friends where you would be able to express who you really are. I am afraid also that I could not stand in my own for I am very independent with my friends and my parents. I never tried to go to the city without any friends at my side. I never tried going to mall to buy my own stuffs alone. I can’t. I am afraid. That’s why I’m having a hard time being in college. I am also afraid to where I would be going, where would be my designated room, what place is this, and what place is that. I actually don’t have any idea where CASS, CBAA and CSM and all others is and especially where “TBA” is. Funny right?  I’m from Iligan City and yet I never been to tour this place before.

            Those where just a few of my stumbling block in my first day in the university. But as days passed, I able to handle it all. I made a lot of friends. I met new people with different personalities and I learn how to share with them. I already used to the different parts in the campus. I was able to walk on my own with courage on it.  I learn to be independent on my own, for I can only trust my own self. I can now buy the things I want alone. I can face my professors and talk to them with a straight face.

          College really is a stepping stone. A stepping stone that allows us to venture different possibilities in life and learn how to break away from our parents to become more independent.

          The first week of college was a breeze. As I say to myself “Happy Independence Day to me. Welcome to college life, where more freedom, more fun, less rules, but yet more responsibilities to make. A fresh start of fun and sorrow, laughter and tears, failures and success.”