New Beginnings Thursday, January 14, 2010 By Meghan Mulcahy - Advertising I remember my first day of kindergarten; I was so excited I couldn’t wait to go. Then I was dropped off and I cried hysterically. I didn’t leave my teacher’s side for about a month. It was the most traumatic thing of my whole life. I am finding the same symptoms as I come to the end of my senior year. I only have one semester left and then my high school career is over. I will be out on my own in the world of adults. I am so excited. I can’t wait for college. I am so excited to be on my own and “discover who I really am.” I  am going to have a sweet roomate and we are just going to become best of friends. We are going to have a sweet miniature fridge where we will keep all or junk food. I am just going to have the time of my life. I confess, I have a feeling I will end up crying my first day at college and I will want to cling to my parents for the rest of forever. College will turn out the exact opposite of what I thought it would be. My roomate will probably hate me and make my life miserable. We won’t have a miniature fridge because I will be too poor to buy one. Then there goes the junk food too. The difference between kindergarten and college is I won’t have a teacher to hold on to. I won’t be able to run to mommy and daddy when thing go wrong. The worst thing is there will be no one to refill the toilet despenser when we run out. I will have to do it myself. My sister says not to worry about it and I will do fine. She says it will be good to get out there and live on your own. She told me you need to make your own memories. I hope she is right, because I really don’t want to be crying and holding on to my parent’s leg (thoughI have not ruled it out entirely). My senior year is almost over and then I will be off to college. Hopefully by the time I leave for college I will be fully ready to take on the world. I won’t be the same scared little girl any more. I will grown up and prepared to take on anything that comes my way.    Guess there's only one way to find out.

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