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here it is! summer time hell yea! i'm a senior in high school who just graduated senior year and im looking forward to summer...
or so i thought
Now that senior year is over i thought i was going to be much like my junior year summer. Party 4 or 5 days a week, being a total idiot. Im a social guy, like most TL'ers, have a lot of friends, rather acquaintances, and a few good friends. School is over and ill be moving on from all these dudes and gals to my future college, University of Wisconsin.
I felt like posting this in my blog today, although it is short, to take a second and figure out my life from here on out. Ive been growing sick of the acquaintances i have and want to pick out the ones that will become my true friends. I realized that most of them are guys, actually all of them are. Maybe 1 girl. And i am a total douche bag guy who will pride himself on all the girls he talks to. But now i dont feel like hanging with any of them. I come from the North Shore in Illinois...kinda like the hamptons where there are stuck up ass girls roaming around.
Enough about the social life since i sound like one of those girls. Im on my way to UW-Madison where i will become the 5th generation in my family to go. Its a party school, or at least i hear, and i feel like i am going to run into the same type of people there. Stuck up partiers. And i want to chase my dreams which are hockey and education But at the same time i dont want to be stuck in my dorm with nerds doing study work and hockey douches living my old life.
Im not sure what i want to major in, not sure where i will live, or what i will have for a job. And my parents and grandparents all have their eyes on me 24/7 when i go there.
Welcome to the real world...well not the real world...the realer world without parents this time and then the next step is the real world
 
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Study hard, play hard, always seems to work out in the end
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Welcome to UW! I just graduated (although I'm 26) and now work for the UW full time.
Yes the UW has a reputation for being a big party school. I know I certainly partied quite a bit, but thats not UW's true identity and its not everyone on campus, not even close.
The best thing is, if you don't want to be involved in the party scene, you don't have to. There is plenty to see and do here.
You will meet people who will become your life-long friends. I only have a few lingering friends from high school and most of my close friends are people I met years ago in my first two years of college.
Find out what is important to you and work on those things. You will me similar or like-minded people and become friends. Or you may meet people so incredibly different and from other parts of the country and you might become friends. The good news is you will have a lot more opportunities and experiences than you ever got from the North Shore.
And if I might add a comment about those "nerds doing study work," don't ever bash people for working hard on their education. I had to work hard to get through college financially and I was paying a lot of money to be here. I worked hard and got the education I paid for. If you don't want to work that hard thats fine but don't criticize those who do want to work that hard.
In regards to not knowing what to major in don't worry about it. I showed up and had absolutely no idea. Take classes from a bunch of different departments. Browse the time-table and find things that look interesting. Go talk to an advisor or two, they are great resources and can help. You have plenty of time to figure it out.
Are you living in the dorms this Fall? Dorms are a fantastic place to meet people. Most of the guys from my floor are still my good friends today. After that I got an apartment with some of them and then just moved around campus with various friends from apartment to apartment, great times.
There are TONS of jobs available on campus, that shouldn't be hard for you.
As someone who has just entered the real world with a big kid's job, its not so bad =)
But enjoy college, it should be some of the best years of your life!
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A few points:
1). Almost every college is a "party school"
2). Good call saying that college wasn't the real world. If you take classes, hold a part time job, and live off-campus then college qualifies as "the real world - light", but it's still not the same thing!
I don't think you're going to know who those real friends are until a few years down the line. It's hard for them to see just how much you've changed over high school because they've been there too. In college there will be plenty more changing. The true friends are the ones you feel at home with a few years from now when you don't have the convenience of going to the same school.
As for the summer itself - enjoy it! I remember mine dragging along. That and my university moved in later than others, so I got to see my friends leave one by one until I headed out myself. It's a bit depressing, but the first week of college cleared that right up!
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Hahaha, post secondary is so awesome. Don't sweat it, enjoy the summer for what it's worth instead.
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