"Hold onto me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along. Just know you're not alone, cause I'm gonna make this place your home. Settle down, it'll all be clear. Don't pay no mind to the demons they fill you with fear. The trouble, it might drag you down. If you get lost, you can always be found. Just know you're not alone, cause I'm gonna make this place your home." ~ Phillip Phillips

Hello fellow bloggers, welcome! So this is my very first post on my very first blog. This is quite exciting! I'm sure when my parents sent me off to college this is what they had aspired for me to be doing...ok, maybe not. Nevertheless, at 2:30am. Ok, so this is my blog. I would love to say that I know exactly the type of things I will be posting on here, but all i have is just a vision. I plan to write about things about college. Either from personal experience or from what I seem to notice. It may be academic, social, relationship-ness oorrrr let's be real, the lack there of. It may be about things going on in college, how my views have changed because of being in college or what I've learned. I promise to keep it interesting...well at least semi tolerable. Haha! But I can't always promise that it will be positive. A girl has to vent you know! Basically, just enjoy the ride. I know i will.

So for my first post now that we both acquainted with what this is about I included song lyrics from a song that has really hit home for me. I have recently begun to redefine my definition of home since i have arrived at college. Granted its been a few months now, but it hasn't been until now that I have really thought about what home really is. Home. Hhhhooooommmmeeeeee. Home? It's not really that hard of a concept to grasp. See, my 3 month younger self would've said that home is my address of where I grew up...of where I spent my days walking in the same front door, flopping down on the same bed, and cooking food in the same old kitchen from when I first tried to make mac and cheese...but ummm that's a different story. Or I would've said that home is my school which makes sense since I attended the same school for 12 years before coming to college. People say that a house is one thing, but a home is totally another. They would be correct. But how can you have 2 homes and not be totally rich? i don't mean parents living sepretely or any of that. I'm talking about feeling totally at ease in both places now.What I am saying is the song home I feel really does represent my first year of college so far. My school, my major, my friends, my campus, my professors, my new experiences, the struggles I've overcame, my roommate, the new clubs I've joined, the people I've met just everything that has happened to me. That's my new second home. Granted it may not be as comforting as a hug from my mother or feeling the fur of my doggies, but it has it's moments. Especially when you walk into a friend's dorm room after midnight and she asks your other friend how hot she likes her hot chocolate as she vents and releases her pent up anguish. All I could do was smile because I know that I have a new family to go along with my new home. My new family will remind me that I am certinaly not alone, they will tell me to settle down, to not fear (unless its math...then I am allowed to fear numbers.) My new family remind me that even if I get lost I will find my way back on the path again...maybe not running but nevertheless back on the path to success. Lastly, they'll remind me yet again with a smile, a hug, lots of laughs, love, tissues, hot chocolate, and of course Ramen (that is shared among only the closest of college friends in my opinion) that I really never am alone and that they...and this place is my home!