Dealing with Anxiety
When I arrived on campus that fateful day in late August, I knew one person. That one person was my freshman roommate. We went to the same high school and had mutual friends, but didn’t know each other very well. I remember that summer before moving in to our shared dorm room I started to freak out a bit. “I barely know her!” I thought. “What if we don’t get along? What if she makes friends and I don’t? What if I’m alone everyday? What if? What if? What if?!” Of course, all of these frightening ideas turned out to be just that- ideas. Once we moved in we clicked immediately and she is still one of my favorite people to this day. What I learned from this experience has been a common thread throughout my entire college career. Spending months having meltdowns about how I wasn’t going to have any friends in college was just me finding something to worry about and latching...