"College Freakout" is a term I coined this year while going through the college application process. It is used in the following way "I'm going through the 'Holy Crap college is expensive' freakout, hbu?"
I'm currently in the middle of a "I didn't apply to enough schools" freakout.
Newsflash: It's March. Pretty much no schools are still accepting applications. I AM going to one of the five schools that I applied to. There's a part of me that knows I'll find happiness wherever I end up (as cheesy as that sounds) and then there's a part of me that is panicking because I feel like I didn't do enough research or go on enough campus tours or write enough application essays.
There's so much change coming up in our lives, graduation, moving away from family, etc. I think that freaking out about college has just become my way of dealing with it. It's also very difficult to come to the realization that after thinking and planning for college for the last few years is finally becoming reality, and there is no more "I should look into that school" because it's done. There are no more chances.
I remember all throughout high school talking to seniors, people who had graduated and even faculty and having them tell me that high school goes by quickly and to make sure that you're taking everything in. Well, I'm a second semester senior, and time seems to be going faster than ever. Spring Break is this month, and then after that Prom, then graduation, the orientation and then all of a sudden, I'm a college student. That's a lot of transition in a very short amount of time, and it's causing me and many students a lot of stress.
