Incoming freshmen,do not worry

Haha, oh goodness. A story on my experience at Cabrini?

All jokes aside though, I could not have asked for a better experience so far at Cabrini.

Coming into this school, I was worried about two things:

Was this the school too small and would I fit in?

Well, those two things were answered halfway through my first semester of freshman year.

I found my niche right away.

Almost all incoming freshman are worried and nervous when they first arrive at college.

However, I am here to tell you that there is absolutely nothing to worry about.

The friends I made freshmen year are still my friends.

The connections that I made with my professors are still alive and active and as I have gotten older and matured

I have successfully stepped outside of my comfort zone.

There are always going to be choices you will regret making at college, but there are always going to be those that you wish you could relive.

When I was a freshman, I did not really know how to balance my time between schoolwork and weekend activities.

As I got more accustomed to the college life, I learned how to cope with those kinds of things.

As a freshman, I dropped a class and withdrew from another.

As a sophomore I took the minimum amount of credits required.

Now as a junior, I am an assistant editor for the perspectives section and just recently found out that I will have the honor of being the  co-editor for the Lifestyles section next year.

There are so many memories that I have of Cabrini already and I am not even in my senior yet.

One of my favorite memories so far would have to be freshmen year when me and one of my closest friends, Michael Schugar, would destroy our friends’ rooms.

One time, we found a bunch of tuna and put it under our friend’s bed.

We later found out the next day that she was extremely allergic of shellfish. The next day Michael and I woke up, walked out of our room and to our surprise found our hallway completely engulfed by caution tape.

If there was one thing that I wish I could redo, it would be my freshman year.

I lived in Xavier Hall, and when I say that I lived there I mean I never left.

Half of my current friends lived in other places and I thought they sucked, but I would have never met them if I did not decide to let myself come out of my comfort zone.

I am thankful that I finally did.

I am also thankful that I stayed so close to the friends I made in Xavier Hall.

If I had to give any incoming freshmen advice other than to stay away from jungle juice and to never go to Kingswood, it would be to be yourself and do not be afraid to take chances academically.

You never know what you will find out about yourself if you do not try to expand.

As Wayne Gretzky once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”