Upon departing high school, many students think they will come to college and won't have to experience some of the same things they have experienced in highschool such as the gossiping, bickering, fighting, cliques, and immaturity. As crazy as this may sound, many colleges do seem to be sort of an extension of highschool because the immaturity level is still at an all time high. College students still act like children; freshmen and upperclassmen alike. I attend a small university so at first I thought maybe the childishness took place only at my school because of its small size. It was not until I talked with some of my friends who attend larger universities that I realized that this behavior goes on at other schools as well. Coming into college I did not care if I made friends or not because that is not what I came here for, but once I studied certain people and different types of personalities, I was able to distinguish between which people I would associate myself with and which people I will not. I'm happy to say that I am more than satisfied with those people I call friends, and If I could go back and choose my college friends all over again, I will choose the same people because they are some of the REALIST people on this campus and that's a fact. Some people come to college and become a total different person because they want to fit in or because they want to deviate from the person they were in highschool. In the end, I think the best thing a person can be is themselves. If you go around being someone you're not, you're only depriving yourself of your real self and as well as walking around with a mask and making people have a certain perception of you that is not real.
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