Nostalgic New Beginnings

Today is Sunday, August 30th 2015. Today happens to be my 18th Birthday. As every teenager looks forward to the day that they are "Finally Legal" I did as well, but they way I spent the hours leading into this day, and the early morning of the most anticipated day of my young life was not the way I expected it to be.

I never imagined to be in a car full of people who I had just met introduced to me by my roommate, nor did I ever imagine them to burst out into simultaneous singing of happy birthday once the clock struck midnight. I spent the first five hours of my day with that same group of people or nor did I expect to have so much fun with them. I guess that is what college is all about, finding people or in my case ran into who are a lot like you. At first I was a bit reserved about going "off to college" because no one in my family had ever left my home town so I was the first. I am also a First Generation Fightin' Texas Aggie so all this is new, exciting, and nerve wracking. All I was anticipating to do and I rung in my 18th birthday at midnight was to binge watch Grey's Anatomy on Netflix till I fell asleep, but yet I found myself in the passenger seat of my roommates car laughing with a group of friends till my stomach hurt till the early morning hours of this long awaited day, I could help but feel a bit nostalgic.

I couldn't help but think of all the obstacles I had overcome to get to where I was in that exact moment. it was kind of a movie type moment, it was hard for me to imagine that I was in that position because not to long ago I was terrified of leaving, terrified of not having the ability to make friends despite the fact that I was very outgoing, what I was most terrified of the most was the unknown, not knowing what to expect once I had arrived in College Station, but once I got here and gotten over the initial shock of seeing my parents "drive off into the sunset" without me, I realized that I was going to be okay. I am thankful  to be where I am at this exact moment hours away from beginning the "Quest of my Aggie Ring" as I've so fondly named my upcoming 4 year academic journey at Texas A&M University.