Cara has a corner and this isn't a corner that I'm sitting in but sh'es going to talk to you anyways. if you guys don't know what Cara's Corner is it is series on my channel where I talk

to you guys at candidly as possible about a certain subject a lot of the

things that you guys wanted me to talk about that you mentioned in the comments

of last video where you wanted me to talk about different aspects of college

I thought I tried a bunch that all up into what is freshman year of college like

so right now

I'm sophomore in college I'm not a freshman which I actually think is a good thing

because it allows me to take a step back from freshman year and see it more

objectively so freshman year was really tricky for me. I think sophomore has been

a lot better. it is such a big transition you're going from high school where you

have to ask for permission just to go to the bathroom to college where sometimes

you'll have like 50 minutes of class in one day and that's it and you have the

rest of the time to yourself you can go to the bathroom whenever you want

honestly one of the hardest parts though freshman year was homesickness moving to

college and moving away from my family living by myself was really really hard

because I wasn't used to such solitude and being around things that were so

unfamiliar, I also wasn't used to having to share space with someone I still don't

like sharring. I like skipped that portion of kindergarten where you're supposed to

learn to appreciate sharing I suck at it. don't underestimate the power of

homesickness and it depends on who your family as you might have a family that

you just want to get out of there and in that case you know then college is gonna be great

now going specifically to dorm life. there's two different styles that I know

of. there's hall style which is what I had and I'm suite style which is where it's like

this one shared bathroom among maybe four different rooms and you guys clean

it yourselves and you are in like a little podd with a hall style you have one

or two bathrooms in the hall other ppl clean it you have housekeepers who

clean but then you all are sharing that same bathroom entire hallway I really liked

it a few complaints I make about my dorm though are one: the walls are very

very thin which wasn't a huge problem I lived on the third floor is a very quiet

dorm. even if you were just having a quiet Hall conversation if you're near

someone's room they can hear it and it was really hard to go to sleep sometimes

I actually suggest if you have trouble falling asleep whenever people are talking

get a white noise machine it really helped me fall asleep to focus on

something else make sure it's ok with your roommate another complaint that I

had is that we didn't have air conditioning. I go to school in the south

it is hot and it really was only a bother to you the first month month

and a half and I remember one time taking a shower I turn the shower off

and I was immediately drenched in sweat again. so my family actually snuck in an air

conditioning unit for me and then the year after I left they got air conditioning

so just my luck. and actually having no air conditioning maybe closer cuz everyone

would go to the common room because it was the only place with air conditioning and

freshman year I remember so many times going to the common room and meeting people

who are from all different walks of life and talking and playing board games and

ping pong watching movies. dorm life can be really really I got lucky that I had a really

great dorm too. roommates are an interesting ordeal of having to share your life with

somebody I was really lucky I had a roommate who our schedules our class

schedules matched up almost perfectly we were waking up and going to bed at the

same time and we never fought roommates can make

your life a living hell sometimes but they can also make your life a lot

easier. what other things to talk about college oh food I like the food in college

lot of people complain I think the only thing to complain about is you sometimes

eat the same things over and over

freshman year especially, I was eating at the strangest the time and I had a cinnamon roll every

day which brings me actually the freshman 15. freshman 15 is avoidable the majority

of freshman 15 actually comes from alcohol so if you avoid alcohol you're

likely to avoid most of the weight gain you now have total control over what

you're consuming and there's no one over your shoulder saying have you eaten your vegetables

it can be hard to make sure that you're eating the right things at the right

time and if you don't eat at the right time and you're not eating consistently and

well, it will really take a toll on you and your mental health

freshman year I was horrible I was going to bed at 2 AM every single day people

entering college or just in general don't do that. it just makes you so tired and

stressed and anxious. it's just not a good way to live. let's talk about classes academically I really tried to make it a

point my freshman year to not take all the hard classes I could because I

didn't want to overwhelm myself I knew that going into college especially first

semester it was already gonna be such a big change for me it was so many things

going on it would be so overwhelming that I didn't want to add 4, 4 really

difficult classes on top of it I suggest that if you don't have to try to avoid

pushing all of your hardest classes in at the beginning I know it makes you

feel like oh I'm accomplishing so much you've got four years sometimes five

years in college you have plenty of time to get your classes done if you're filling

out your classes for freshman year

of college just try to take like all the class that interest you there are a lot

of people who just tried out of class ones and they ended up loving. you might

come in with an idea of what you want to pursue when you're to coming college, what

you want to do after you graduate but those things can change don't stay

on this really really narrow path because you never know where life is going to

take you you don't know what's going to interest you in highschool you've taken

so few classes they really don't allow you to explore what you love and that is

a great thing about college you get to have these really weird classes with

these really passionate teachers and students and it's so exciting to be in

that environment and for homework try to figure out what time works best for

you to study. for me nighttime is not the time because I get distracted easily I'm

tired. the afternoon or early morning is the best time for me to get things done

and that was something that I had to learn and I had to learn through a lot of

late nights being really stressed and doing homework. so find what time works

best for you and just be really disciplined with your time make sure

you're aware of your studying and make sure you're aware of deadlines because

they creep up on you and people will not remind you about them and that it's

scary there's so many things to talk about when it comes to college and

freshman year and whatnot but my biggest takeaway is don't put these extreme

expectations on your freshman year I think people say college is the greatest

time of your life; you're gonna have so much fun oh my god freshman year it's

amazing it can be really, it really can be and there are moments in my freshman year

that were so wonderful and I met some great people but it wasn't the best time

of my life and I don't know if college is gonna be the best of my life I really

hope not cause that kind of sounds like everything else is downhill I think that

it's what you make of it and just don't come in expecting it to be so amazing to

the point where you're putting pressure on yourself and feeling bad about

yourself if you're not having a blast every single moment. and it's gonna be

amazing at times, but it's also gonna suck at times and it's okay for it to suck and

it's okay for you to feel sad sometimes freshman year; so yeah just don't put too

much pressure on yourself having an amazing time like movies and magazines

tell you you need to

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