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" Christmas break was great! The last couple of months were awesome, stressful but awesome! I know I&amp;#039;m a couple months behind on all the hype about leaving for college, but I feel like I still earn the right to say eep! It really doesn&amp;#039;t feel real until you&amp;#039;ve packed your last bag and stripped your room bare. I&amp;#039;ve decided to transfer over to East Texas Baptist University, because I&amp;#039;ll be paying literally nothing at all to attend. It really did help to wait and do my research. I found out that this school gave out scholarships not only for academics, but also for Christian leadership. This means if you&amp;#039;re involved with things like helping out with Sunday school, or the praise and worship team at your church, you get scholarships! If you&amp;#039;re looking for an easy, generous scholarship, I would recommend looking at schools that correspond with your religion and offer scholarships for your involvement. Although I&amp;#039;m super stoked about finally getting the full experience of the college life, I am a little bit scared of what&amp;#039;s going to happen now that I&amp;#039;ve officially started the next chapter of my life. Over the break my friends shared so many stories about their first semester. They gave me helpful tips like &amp;quot;Do not fall asleep in the Quad&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;lock your bike otherwise, it&amp;#039;ll end up in some tree.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m looking forward to coming back over the summer with my own helpful tips and fun college stories! So far my first month here has been interesting, and definitely a culture shock. Back home in Dallas I was surrounded by everything I needed, and my life was so fast paced. Down here in Marshall, everything is slow and very chill - it&amp;#039;s taking me a while to get adjusted to. The biggest thing I struggled with the first week is that the nearest Target is thirty minutes away! I wasn&amp;#039;t expecting for this to be such a huge, life-changing deal, but it really is. The school that I&amp;#039;m attending isn&amp;#039;t very big, so it&amp;#039;s easy to recognize faces and remember names, and you can tell when there is someone new on campus. Down here I&amp;#039;m known as the &amp;quot;New Girl&amp;quot;, which is weird, because I&amp;#039;ve never really been the &amp;quot;New Girl&amp;quot; since I pretty much grew up with the same people my whole life. Still, I&amp;#039;m looking forward to spending the rest of the semester here, and excited to see what happens! Did you decide to transfer schools after your first semester? What was the hardest part of being the &amp;quot;new girl&amp;quot;? Sound off in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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