TAKE IT AS IT IS: SCHOOL, FRIENDS & THE FUTURE

As fall is rapidly approaching, students all over North America are returning to their busy school lives. Recent high school graduates are realizing how easy they had it in high school, and seniors can’t wait to get out of that very place. For those of you who are in my position - recently graduated and yet to enroll in post secondary, you’re probably unsure of what to do next, and feeling remotely frightened by your sudden freedom.I was so excited to have a year to ‘figure my life out’, while working and traveling, that I didn’t even think of how things could have played out. Now, not even a week into September, I can’t help but feel like I’m missing out on something huge. I’ll never get the opportunity to move into dorms for the first time with my friends, nor will I get to go to uni parties. Sure, going to school is about learning, but I feel as if I’m missing out on the social part more than anything else. This now leaves me questioning, as my friends trickle off and leave me one by one, was taking a year off really a good choice?

AFFORDABLE WAYS THROUGH UNIDAYS

I know it’s definitely not just me when I say that imagining the first day of college, one of the thoughts flitting through your mind is, “What the HECK am I going to wear?”. I’m a college freshman and the weeks leading up to the big day were hectic, stressful but more fun than ever as I decided to shop for an entire new wardrobe. I guess you could call it, college closet cleaning? Anyways, I’ve become a total bargain hunter so much to the point that when I go shopping it’s terribly hard for me to spend more than twenty dollars for one item. When I started looking for new clothes I scrounged all of the thrift shops and the local Buffalo Exchange because I’m just not willing to pay forty-five dollars for a shirt from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel simply for the namesake.