Design Your Dorm

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You may think that college is all about studying and debating with professors in class. Well, let me tell you there’s more to that than you may think. I will always relish the social life in high school but college is in a world of its own! The social life is much different and much more fun. There was more to do socially here than ever before.

You’ve got your garden variety club activities and civic groups, if you’re into that kind of thing! However, dorm events and parties were always the best! They were wilder and more adrenaline-packed than high school. Not to mention that alcohol flowed like rivers at every party I went to and I’ve never seen people that thirsty before in my life! High school had kiddie parties compared to what we had now!
Being new to the state I was in, I made sure to grab every opportunity I had at an adventure which would help me warm up to my surroundings. I went hiking, kayaking and involved myself in other activities that would increase my familiarity with the state that would be my home for the four years. Adventures during the day and parties at night; what more could anyone ask for? Unfortunately, this was where my problems began. Too much play actually made me a dull boy!

Back then, I always had my parents around to remind me if I was partying too much and a dip in my grades was enough to have me grounded for a week or more. Now, I’m thousands of miles away from them and no one was going to tell me what to do! Despite that sense of bravado; my grades were taking a major hit! Suddenly, I was losing my zeal for knowledge and diverted my attention to everything else other than academics.

It was a hard lesson in responsibility that I learned! Keeping that balance was more difficult than I imagined! I certainly did not want to be called “the geek” who spent most of his time in the library; yet reading is, undoubtedly, the most essential part of a college education. It came to a point of time when too much partying actually made me feel bad! Call it guilt, if you want, but all I ever thought about from that point on was getting my grades back on track.

This has been the dilemma of every student who ever wanted to succeed in college; when is too much fun actually too much? College life presents itself with its own set of temptations and challenges. It is the transition stage from childhood to adulthood. This is the time to determine your path and write your own destiny. Do you want to be remembered as someone who dropped out of school for partying too much or as the person who graduated with flying colors because he had the right balance in his life? That choice is ultimately yours.