Letters Of Advice

 As part of an English assignment I had to write to three differentpeople in three different stages of life to ask them about their experienceschanging from high school to college.

I first wrote to my friend who is a freshman in college at the University ofPittsburgh. She really is enjoying college and gave some good advice. Her firsttidbit was about her roomate, at first everything seemed great, she chattedwith her roomate via Facebook before term started and they became fast friends,however by about the end of first quarter the relationship became extremelyrocky. The roomate would steal my friends pillow and her food. This littleanecdote taught me two things. The first is that even if you like your roomateat first, or consider you to be an easygoing person you will still likely haveproblems with your roomate at some point, its just a fact of life. The secondis that you should never keep copous amounts of food in the room that way otherpeople can’t eat it. Another thing that my friend helped me with was just whatliving in the dorms is like, what appliances to have, how you shower, etc. Thatwas helpfull advice because in the college that im going to I will be stayingin the dorms.  

The second person I wrote to was this little old lady down the street whosedog I walk. She went straight to Carbon College in 11-12 grade and then fromthere went to nursing school. The main thing that struck me from her letter ishow hard she worked. She would go to school and then pick up extra nusingshifts at night untill she had her full nursing certificate.  She neverstopped working and yet her letter was tinged with joy,  Maybe their issomething to be said for hard work after all. The next helpful part of herletter was describing how her mother was nervous to send her away. My own momis a little reluctant to send me all the way across the country especiallysince I’m such a messy kid. However she advised me to just keep working hardand that in the end she would see that I would be fine.

The third person I wrote to was my friend’s mom. Her letter was tainted withregret although the tone was happy enough. She stayed in state, even though she stated at least three times that she wished she would have left, shealso went into detail about how she didn’t buckle down enough and startedpartying really really hard, "College is something that believe it or not youDO have to take seriously." That is perhaps the best advice I got, not becauseI’m a party animal, far from it, but I keep getting caught up in all the extraciricular activites I can do their that sometimes I worry that I wouldnt takethe academics as seriously whcih is really all that college is about, butknowing me I should do alright, especially with all this great advice guidingme into the next stretch of my life.

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