Megan Walz Blog

Not All Friends Are Created Equal In high school I had a fairly large group of friends who were also my teammates. We spent every day with each other and never attended an event without each other. However, when it came to choosing colleges to attend we all seemed to have different viewpoints of where we saw ourselves ending up. For me, I wanted the big SEC experience with football and an old college charm. My friends on the other hand, decided they wanted to go to the smaller colleges like Berry and Georgia College. Graduation was a bittersweet time as we parted ways towards our respected colleges in the fall and sadly we all lost connection with each other.  Coming into college I knew that I wanted to join a sorority. Both my parents were in the Greek life and after leaving behind all of my friends I didn't want to be friendless. I decided to go through recruitment, found a house I thought fit my beliefs and preferences, and begun the search for those "lifelong fr...

Good Is Not Great - Always Keep Trying Before college I was always the student that didn't have to spend hours in the library studying for a test; I simply looked over notes the day of the test and got an A. While many of my friends were always telling me how great of a thing this was and how lucky I was to be able to do this, I never knew how much it was actually hindering me. So naturally, I came to college with that same exact mentality - "I don't have to study too hard, it worked in high school so it should definitely work now". Let me tell you, I was extremely wrong. When my first precalculus test came back with a big fat 43 on it, I was astonished and thought it had to be a mistake until I looked at the name on the paper and all the red marks littering the page. "This is it," I had thought, "I have to drop the class. I will never be able to pass this class". This grade was a wake up call and taught me right off the bat that college c...

I'd be lying if I said I went into college and didn't think I had everything figured out, but then again what 18 year old doesn't? Fresh out of high school and now "on your own" (despite still being financially dependent on your parents) gives you a rush of independence like no other. No longer do you have a midnight curfew- you get to stay out however long you want! But after these past 3 years I learned that I couldn't have been more wrong in my mindset. I was utterly and completely clueless when it came to living in the adult world. Growing up and learning important life lessons certainly isn't easy and not always a welcomed venture yet once you accept that you do not in fact know everything about everything and open your mind up to learning new things you realize the world isn't as scary of a place as it once seemed. Over the next few months I will enlighten you on some of the few lessons college taught me from the Freshman 15 to the unknown str...