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I feel like it takes so long to set up my camera and lighting that by the time I'm ready to actually fill my batteries already flashing like bro Hello. I remember two years ago I was a freshman in college and a lot of new ideas and thoughts and words of wisdom, things I was learning. There are a lot of things about freshman year that I feel like nobody can prepare you for even when people try to share as much as I can about it. So in today's video, I just kind of want to talk about what nobody tells you about your first year of college. Basically, I don't really have a plan of doing this video until I started talking Thio someone from high school who was now currently experiencing their first year college. It really sparked this video because I want to talk about it more and all the other things that happened during your first year of college that nobody really can tell you or prepare you. The biggest overall thing that I feel like nobody tells you your first year college is that sometimes it's going to suck. I feel like you're so excited for college being the dorms with new people of classes, being an adult living on your own that you get so caught up in this fantasy. By the time you're actually there, there are all of these moments were like town, like I have to grocery shop or I'm sick and my mom's not here, you hear me? Or I feel really alone right now. The second thing that nobody tells you in college is that you're going to feel homesick. You're going to miss home and friends and your life before college. What's even more common than feeling homesick well away at school is covering it up and trying to tell yourself until others that you're not and that you're loving life. I felt like I spent the entire year mourning my high school graduation is the fact that it was over that life before college ended cause I loved high school and I loved where I lived. Like, Why didn't I feel that way? Why was it so much harder for me to adjust and to find my place and to move on? And not only that, but then with social media? Specifically, I feel like there's this rush, huh? No pun intended until a college freshman who were rushing. There's like a rush of Instagram posts the first few months of school with all this college friends and parties in your room, mate in your dorm to be like, Look, I'm having fun and happy. I'm not saying everyone is lying, but there are times where I feel like you're trying to prove that you're happy or that you have friends, and then you post all these pictures that say I'm having a good time to cover up that you're homesick or that you feel left out or that you haven't found your friends yet and to those that have somehow found their friends within the first couple months of college. Kudos to you because there's this thing called first semester friends where I feel like you just latch on to people that you meet because you're also trying to make friends. Then you realize later that they aren't really the friends for you. I know it's really hard to generalize and experience as big and different as college can be for everyone or university college universe see the same. Some people just like jump into the college life and they love it and they're fine. I remember feeling like I was the only person to feel this homesick and to miss life before school and to feel this out of place and not myself. I would face time friends from home, and we could only tell each other the good things, or you go on to Facebook and instagram and only see the happy moments and pictures everyone on your floor at college like it's just not talked about. I didn't really realize that other people had shooting college experiences until YouTube when I started watching videos and could relate and realize that there were others like me that hard. You miss all of that because it's comforting, like you miss all things comfort because you're so out of your comfort zone on you're at college and you can love your school and you can still I have such a yearning for home. What's important to remember about this specific homesickness is that, like all things, it's temporary and the feeling will pass. I remember coming home for fall break for the first time since college and started for me and an adult in my life was saying if her school had let her come home this early, she doesn't think she would have ever gone back. It's okay to miss home into Miss High School or your old friends, because everyone is still adjusting, especially at this time of year, which is why I want to post this video because it's something that I really wish I had at this point my freshman year of college, so hopefully it can help you. The next thing that nobody tells you about your first year of college is that you're going to lose touch with people that you never thought you would. Sometimes from the worst I lost, I'd say to really, really good friends my first year of college that up until the day I was leaving for school, I believed never would happen. Sometimes it happens gradually where it's like a mutual feeling where you just kind of both admit that like this isn't working and then sometimes it's just it's shocking. If it doesn't, I just great video, lots of things to say down below and kind of a final topic of what people don't tell you about your first year of college is that you are going to change. Just like how everything in your life is changing and how other people are changing and you're losing friends or you feel like home sickness. If a friend from high school were to like realize list, she would be so confused, it should be like Mikayla, you hate sushi. This happened to me specifically, not saying I really wanted to go to the college I was at. It's really and you could love college, and you could still find it sucky at times and this home and feel like you're losing touch with people or feel like you haven't found your place feel like you're changing and that others are changing. Your world is suddenly completely, very different, like that doesn't get enough credit sometimes because it's such a common cultural passing just to move out at 18 to a dorm and like college. Since I've been out of the typical college environment for about a year, I haven't done a video like this in a while and I kind of miss it because this is my content. We feel left out or we have under place yet it's okay, it's okay and it will be okay and this feeling will pass and everything is temporary and there are so many things that you could do to change the current conditions. Because when you're in such a mindset of, like, missing home and feeling like craft, not wanting Thio embrace the new college environment. Even though she loved college and was homesick at all, I'm just embraced that culture she was still able to find, like something to relate, to be on and to help me out and trying to get me involved and help me just like she helped a lot.