College is strange. I moved five hours away from the only town that I had ever known to move into a smaller room with girls that I had only ever met once before. I put myself through the traumatic experience that is recruitment and joined a sorority, where I’ve met some of the most incredible people on the whole planet. Those people have introduced me to others who I now can’t believe that I haven’t known for years. Me and my brother are closer than ever and yet we never see each other despite now living in the same state again. I can randomly decide to go to Whataburger at midnight on a Wednesday because I don’t have class until 10:30. I can just eat lunch whenever. That’s been a real strange one for me personally. I sobbed as I left my hometown that I hated because I knew that I had painstakingly found my best friends after years of feeling alone and now I had to leave them. I had no idea if I would find people in Norman Oklahoma that understood me the way that they did. Yet, here I sit in my dorm room typing a blog post that was inspired by me realizing how much love has entered my life because I had the courage to leave my hometown. I have people that have known me for less than 4 months and care whether or not I sleep well at night or if I have eaten anything that day. There are people here who inspire me to pursue my relationship with God and make me want to be a better person. I guess all of this to say, I was terrified of college. I never told anyone that. I only ever told people how excited I was to move away and get out of my hometown. The truth was that I was terrified. Now, on the other side of it, I realize that behind that fear, there was something incredible waiting for me and I’ll forever be grateful that I left my hometown.

To conclude, college is strange. There is love here. I’m going to be okay.

All my love,

-Lexi