{"id":2094,"date":"2020-01-30T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:24:23","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Change has always been hard for me.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">day my parents dropped me off\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">freshman year\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a pretty rough day.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I was all alone for the first time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in a new place with no one there to talk to.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The first day<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just kind of stayed in my room and didn\u2019t do much. But the second day I forced myself to go out and explore campus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. I felt a little weird walking around campus\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">seeing people running around with friends<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">it\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">made me feel more alone. But o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ver time I got used to being on my own and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I became\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pretty good friends<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with my roommates and our dorm neighbors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0I also made friends though clubs and classes as well. Adjusting to college life was very difficult. Being away f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rom family was hard<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at first but over time I made my own Purdue family.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Through the four years I have been here I have grown so close to these people\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and as I enter my last semester of classes I realize that I am going to have to leave them and be on my own again. Once again, I am faced with change that I do not want to come.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0I do not want to move away from my home away from home and my new family. But I know that this is something that I have to do and something\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I am a little scared of. I don\u2019t know what\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">this change will entail for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">me,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0but I do know that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I am excited and nervous for it. Change will always come in our lives, and like it or not we have to accept the c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hange that comes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change has always been hard for me.\u00a0The\u00a0day my parents dropped me off\u00a0freshman year\u00a0was\u00a0a pretty rough day.\u00a0I was all alone for the first time,\u00a0in a new place with no one there to talk to.\u00a0The first day\u00a0I just kind of stayed in my room and didn\u2019t do much. 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