I currently go to UCONN. I am orignnally from a city in NJ, and I have experienced a huge culture shock while coming to this school. I chose to go to this school due to financial reasons, and because I got into their nursing programs. My other choice was ohio state and my parents felt that it was too far from home. The pros of being at UCONN include their nursing program, school spirit, meeting kind people, and and I also live next to their little downtown area. However, I am aware that I am only just a freshman and it is especially hard getting used to everything, but I feel like I have been so alone when it comes to navigating my first semester, and don't get me wrong I feel like the staff there are very helpful. I also do not have the best roommate she has genuinely made my anxiety, overthinking, and just my overall well-being worse. I feel like I am usually someone who adapts quickly and is very resilient, but given the time that I have been there I just don't like how small the school is and the culture just seems so off to me, maybe it is because I grew up in the city. I just feel so stuck and lost and as if I'm not growing as a person, and I don't know if transferring would be the best decision here. I have made a lot of good friends, and I do know that overtime I will always be making new friends, but sometimes it feels really hard to be comfortable with people. I don't know, but I just feel like while being there for my first semester it just feels like an ordinary school and I did come from a very competitive high school, so sometimes it just feels like I am not really gaining so much out of this experience, and while I am there it just feels like such a simulation. i feel like there aren't many things to do, besides joining a club or going to their basketball games, and I am sure that this is what most colleges are like. Honestly, I am very confused about everything. I don't know if it is just my overthinking and I feel like there is more to explain, but I am so tired of speaking about how miserable I have felt.
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