Our Memoir

After being asked in class today to come up with our own memoir I did and this is what I wrote:


If I had to write a memoir it would probably be about my college experience. In college you enter a whole different part of your life and you truly do find out who you really are. It is a growing up stage. i am five hours away from home so I couldn't depend on my family for a lot, but I could depend on my new friends. After a stressful year at school you go back home to your "normal" life, but your "normal" life isn't so normal anymore. You once again have rules from the parents. All your high school friends have new friends and you all of a sudden are not as close to them as you once were. Many of your friends changed in college and the new them is a stranger to you. Or maybe you've changed and you personalities clash more than they did in high school.
I know when I came home for summer it was weird seeing my best friend again everyday. I had gotten so used to just talking to her on the phone a few times a week. It is crazy though that you really live two lives when you are in college. You have your home life with you family and childhood friends and then you have your college life with your new found friends. It kind of seems like where ever you are at the time you forget about the other life a little. Like during summer I didn't talk to my college friends a lot and when I'm here in Minnesota I don't talk to people from my hometown much.
College is also a time where you do things for yourself. That's one thing I've learned. you get to be selfish here and it is alright. School is about what you want to do with you life. No one else can chose it for you. Your parents are left at home for a reason...so they can't decide the rest of your life for you. Their job was to guide you to get to this point and now it's our turn to grab a hold of life. Even if this means switching majors 1o times or transferring to a new school. It's all in our hands now.