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To all the college freshmen out there, I want to say, happy first days of school.
You probably had lots of daydreams about this moment.
The football games, the roommate who'd become your best friend,
the hotties you'd meet in Econ 101 or maybe in your dorm, and the freedom, right?
Finally, you're on your own, making your own choices.
I hope it's like that for y'all.
I really do.
But to be honest, it wasn't for me.
At least not right away.
I cried buckets, rivers even, when my parents dropped me off at school,
despite thinking I was so ready to be away from them.
Those first few weeks, I wandered around campus aimlessly,
circled the weekends on my calendar that I'd get to go home,
and sat on a bench outside my freshman dorm,
having distraught phone conversations with my high school friends about how homesick I was.
The folks in my dorm, who I would later become friends with,