Phobia

[Koal]

COLLEGE. THE FUTURE. THE LONG AND ARDUOUS ROAD THAT IS CALLED LIFE.

It scares the hell out of me. I found myself filling out the FAFSA today, and then looking at possible colleges, and I realized that I’m not ready, and I’m so frick frackin scared.

And so, I beg of you older, more wizened members of this holy site to give me some advice.

Does it get better?

[Oleander]

Short answer? Yes. Long answer?

You are in the crux of "pain in the ass" right now when it comes to things that no one's going to teach you. Fafsa is a pain in the butt the first time (and the second time, unless you remember every step) but after that I'd say my college life is pretty fun.

If you can, when you go into picking classes, don't be afraid to take it slow. If you work as well, one hard classes or two easy classes a day. My college (2 year only) staggered classes, so one class would happen on mondays/wednesdays and another class would be tuesday/thursdays with fridays off. Managing classes is a pain in the butt for all of the hour and a half orientation and then work-planning but after that it just becomes a matter of managing the time in between.

I was lucky, I'm still with my parents through college so if that's you, then yea it should get pretty easy after all the start up bullshit. Just remember that classes can get tough, try to organize them so you only have a hand full of difficult things to do at a time, no more. Don't bite off more than you can chew, its very easy to do in college. Your adviser might be able to tell you how "difficult" a class is and help suggest scheduling.

Also, ask if your college does evening classes... Mine did, but they don't advertise because it's a small thing that's "by request." You could do a morning class, have two hours in between for homework, then an evening class and then finish homework and go home with no worries and no regrets. That's what I did.

[Revan Noctis]

They take your money and leave you in debt the rest of your life. On the plus side if your lucky to get a good teacher you might have fun. If not though it will be horrible.
Mind you this is what my friend told me when he was in college and he says he had people fail to send in his paperwork so it became even more expensive for him cause they just didn’t care about him. Don’t forget spendings money on those useless overpriced books you will probably hardly use that almost solely exist to give some money to some out of date educational system.

Hope you have fun at college.

[Blink]

I'm not gonna turn this into a thing, but if you ever want to have a conversation about the military option and how it can help with like, everything in your future no matter how long you do it, hit me up.

[Revan Noctis]

Oh dear. 

Well it can certainly work if it’s what you want.