Ahh college

I truly underestimated how hard college is going to be until the other day.

It hit me like a brick wall. It was a Sunday morning and I had to drive up to Rutgers for a scheduled practice. When I arrived with another one of my teammates I did not think anything of practice. I thought it was just going to be a normal practice until I got into the room. The room was over a hundred degrees and I could already sense the intensity. As we began to jog I did not suspect anything that was until our jog only lasted five minutes. Then a white board was brought into the room with a list of exercises.  For the next half hour practice was hell. Everything on that board had to be done and not one exercise was simple. Some involved doing a bear crawl while pulling sand bags in between my legs and others involved reverse walks up a wall. As soon as I thought it was over we began doing sprints for another half hour. Then after I threw up a few times I came back into the room to find out it was time to drill. Lucky me I get paired up with coach. For the next forty-five minutes I had to deal with my coach throwing me around like a rag doll. I thought to myself if practice is this hard now imagine how hard it will be when season actually starts.

            After thinking about how hard practice was going to be made me realize how much even harder school will be. I did not pick an easy major. I am going to school to be a biology major. Now the even harder part is going to be balancing wrestling and biology. I know I have to be prepared when I enter college because I will not have very much free time. I will not have much of a life except for wrestling and school. I know it will be difficult and I have to pull through.

            As the school year is ending I become more and more nervous for college. It is not so much that I am nervous to live away from home but that I am going to have so much work to balance. I just have to manage for four years to become successful. It will most likely be the four hardest years of my life but I know I will receive a lot from the experience. A lot of knowledge and skills will be acquired. I will become a much better wrestler. Once you can survive wrestling everything else in life becomes easier. This is advice I received from previous graduates from Rutgers. They say the hard work, sweat, and tears will pay off in the end. If one individual can suffer so much then everything else seems like a piece of cake. This is why my fear is not so bad. I am scared to go to college but know that it is the best choice that I can be making.