Bri Who?

Hello, so my name is Brianna, but I go by Bri. I’m a second year college student, oh gosh let me start off by saying I am not a huge fan of college. When I first started applying for universities, I was honestly not looking forward to it. I truly felt like i couldn’t handle the pressure it brought, I was struggling with the pressure private school was giving me throughout high school, that i hardly had a social life. I was always trying to stay afloat because my freshmen year in college i was taking 17 hours and i didn’t know how to manage school work and having friendships. So it was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that you need to time manage, because back in high school I never had a social life…so that was something new to me. But I sometimes look back to freshmen year of college and compare myself to my high school self, honestly i was someone who i myself didn’t even recognized. I was finally free…free of controlling parents, i was doing things at my own risk cause i didn’t have my parents to tell me what and what not to do. So I went crazy, going out to parties every weekend and getting drunk then coming home to do homework and that was my routine for the weekends. Then one day, my friends and I had gone to a party…it had been shut down so we were leaving, as we were leaving we got to the street light and a drunk driver t-boned us to the point where our car flipped four times and if I’m being honest I should be dead because I was the most affected. That was when I realized that going out to get drunk doesn’t help you de-stress from college stress, it just make you feel and act stupid. I had not been feeling like I fit in so I thought that was the way out. So a tip coming from a person who has gone through some rough stuff in college, if you want to de-stress take a boxing class or go workout because let me tell you getting drunk and going out every weekend is not the way to go. But people de-stress in their own ways!