Stop being afraid.
I love the city. I have always pictured myself living in Manhattan and when I had the opportunity to go to school in NYC I knew I couldn’t give it up. I mean, it truly is great being in my favorite city the majority of my week! However, everything went south very quickly! I commute from Long Island for nearly two hours on a good day and over 2 hours during rush hour, (yes, my 8:30 AM’s kill me) and I always feel like I only have time to come to class and I quickly have to go home since my commute is so long. This semester I have a night class and I get home nearly at 1 AM!
It’s truly insane, but even if commuting wasn’t the problem, a huge problem is how expensive the city is. If you thought only the food and clothes were expensive here, think again. College is known to be a place where you go just to put yourself in debt, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be. I know, I go to a private college in NYC so of course it would be extremely expensive, but I didn’t realize how unprepared I was for it. Also, commuting makes it really hard to make new friends. The only people I know are my friends from class, but they all dorm in the city and our schedules never match so we barely see each other. And of course I also have commuter friends, but with my luck they commute from opposite places.
I started doing some research and found a good school that I can transfer to for much cheaper and much closer. I wouldn’t have to rush home immediately anymore, I wouldn’t be drowning my mom in debt anymore, and I think I would just be a happier person overall. It has been in the back of my mind for some time now but I was just too afraid to make changes and I also really did not want to leave the city! School is basically the only time I am in the city, but if transferring means being able to work even harder for my end goal and still being able to live in the city after I graduate, then I’ll take it! I will have to drive, which I have been drastically putting off for some time now. I know that’s very shocking since everyone I know drives and/or has a car, but I think I’ve developed a phobia for driving cars or even being in a vehicle nowadays. Don’t worry though, there is a Her Campus in the school I am transferring to so I can still write as my heart desires! I think that I need to stop being afraid of things and just go for what I want/need. I hope that people learn that change isn’t always a bad thing. Everything happen for a reason.