Adam’s Place

As I sit in class, I rapidly jot down as many notes from the lecture as possible, as do the rest of the students in the class. Even though I don’t recognize almost all of them, I could tell we were all thinking pretty much the same thing. What time it was or who that guy is or if this is going to be on the test? I lean back in my desk, which is ironically a lot smaller than the desk I sat in during my years in grade school, and begin to let my mind wander back into the past and how hectic this day has been. Then, for a moment I close my eyes and remember how simple and carefree life was as a young teenager. I reminisced and compared that to what my life is now for a while before I realized something. The life as a young teen is a lot different then that of a college student.

            Most of what being a college student is about is being responsible on your own and not with the help of your teacher or your parents. Of course I will always have the support of my family and they will always be there, which is the same all my life. However when it comes to making decisions about what I want to do with my life or if I even want to attend school, I am on my own with that.

            Another part of my life that has stayed the same is the continuous education and attending school almost every day. I never really stop learning things about the world or what I need to learn to enhance my knowledge about the future. The part that is different about that is going to college is taken a lot more serious along with the high amount of work. My middle school experience during the teen years wasn’t much more then a social event or popularity contest. It was always worrying about who was dating who or what was going on after school. Now in college, the main focus is responsibility, being on your own and thinking about where you want to be in the future. In middle school I couldn’t have cared less about where I was going to be in five years.

            One more comparison between my teen years and my college life is the friendship I have with my old friends. What we had during those past years will go on forever. Now those friends are just moved away or working way too hard in school to go ride their bikes up and down the street for hours on end. That is what we used to do and what I preferred to as a carefree life earlier in the paper. I will also make new friends of course, but those old friends and the stupid things we used to do is what I will remember.

There are still some similarities in my everyday life, but not many. Over this specific span of time, we cross a gradual bridge between adolescence and adult hood. My experience with this has led me to believe that my life as a college student compared to what it was as a carefree teenager has carried me from my yesterdays to my tomorrows.