College. The best four years of your life. Thatâs what everyone loves to tell you.
They say itâs when you feel your freest, when you are on your own for the first time in life and get to make your own decisions.
They tell you they would go back in an instant, and their four years were full of the happiest of memories and the best moments in their lives.
No one talks about or even seems to remember the stressful, anxiety riddled moments that come with coming into your own in a university setting.
For me, college was a cathartic experience, where I battled the worst in myself to have the âbestâ four years of life â the best of which came in my senior year, when a worldwide pandemic threatened to take away all I have been working toward.Â