First Day of College

When I arrived at Wartburg for the Orange Exceleration I was beginning a new chapter in my life.  High school is over and done with and now it is time to move on and and begin my college career.  The Orange Exceleration was a great way to help freshman students get used to college life.  It helped me out a lot because I was not sure how life would be like away from home.  I got to meet new friends at the orientation and also get used to staying in a dorm for a long period of time.  It also helped to have the IS classes because they gave you a heads up to what college classes will be like and how long they will be.  When the first day of classes arrived, I was expecting my classes to right away go to work and begin what we will work on for the rest of the semester.  Was I wrong! My first class was Macroeconomics and all we did in that class was read the syllabus and talk about the history of economics, and the class was only 30 minutes long.  After that I had Lifetime Wellness and in there we just read the syllabus and introduced ourselves and that was it, so class was 20 minutes long.  I was thinking to myself that those two classes were a great way to start off college.  Then in the afternoon I had my IS class, and accounting, and both of those were the full length but we just talked about what we were going to do during the semester.  The only homework I had was to read, so overall the first day of college was fairly easy for me, but i know it will only get harder from here and that's what I'm going to have to get ready for.  I'm also going to have to be able to manage my free time wisely and know when it's time to study and when it's time to be with friends and family.  College is going to give me a lot of challenges and I'm going to have to be ready to take them head on in order to have a successful college career.