| I agree with the poster who mentioned motivation. I go to college about 600+ miles away from home (and friends), but don't find too much of struggle with leaving my family. The hardest part was trying to get myself motivated to attend class (which, I suppose some folks might say is related to being away from the watchful eye of my parents but I don't think so). Behind academic motivation, the hardest transition might be the social aspect because I always associated with the entire gamut of individuals (smart kids, party kids, drinkers, smokers, religious nuts, liberal zealots, etc.), but I now find myself at BYU surrounded by an overwhelming number of people that all seem the same to me and all seem to repulse me. I just don't find them interesting... at all. So yeah, behind trying to find academic motivation, adjusting to a system where I must now diligently seek out interesting people around me has been the biggest challenge. |