The Transition Of High School - 1256 Words

Time For a Change The transition from high school to college is typically a big step in a teenager’s life. We go from being with people we have grown up with and gotten to know for many years, to a whole new environment with strangers. It can be scary because it is such a huge change. Making friends in high school is a lot different from making friends in college because it takes less effort. Usually, when you meet someone in high school, you already have known â€Å"of â€Å" them, but have not gotten to know them as an individual. For example, I met one of my closest friends, Nikki, in fourth grade because we were neighbors and basically grew up together. We became friends not only because of being neighbors but because we went to the same†¦show more content†¦Coming into St. John Fisher as a freshmen, I only knew one person. This was intimidating because I was basically all on my own. A difficulty I had in this transition to college was that I loved my friends from home and did n ot want to leave them. I simply did not want to make any new friends because I had such amazing ones at home.I wanted them to come to college with me! Having all of us part our separate ways really did take a toll on my friend-making process. I was not ready to make friends because I already had such wonderful friends at home. My transition to St. John Fisher started with my selfishness pouring out. I came into college with the wrong mind set on making friends and I was too worried my friends at home were going to create better bonds with their college friends. Another hindrance I had, was that I was generally only attentive to those who had the same interests as I do. Within a friendship the bond should have a certain degree of mutuality. Common ideas, values and likes are often what drive people to connect and create a friendship. This coherence is good but a degree of differences is also important in a friendship. In college so far, I tend to try to be friends with only nursing majors being that I am a nursing major. Certainly, I am in fact still meeting new people and creating new friendships, but they are all too similar. I noticed we all have the same idea that we want