If anything, remember that college is a constant state of metamorphosis. Nothing remains the same for long and the institutional memory is rather short lived. If you make a mistake, if it takes you a little bit longer to settle into school, if you need to take a semester off, things will change--and most often for the better. Your bodies will change--they don't call it the Freshman Fifteen for nothing. You might grow extremely distant from the person you were during high school. But by leaving home to attend college as an independent adult, you are not growing more distant from who you once were, but rather closer to the person that you will become.
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