“I went to a very small high school, there was only 56 of us in our graduating class, and I knew I wanted a small environment. This is what I expected, that everywhere I go there’s someone I know. But one thing that I think people don’t realize that makes it difficult is that since it’s so small people know everything and things spread pretty quickly.”
“I also think because its so small peoples’ friend groups get established already 2 months into school and I think if you tried to make new friends it would be difficult.”
“I didn’t really expect to know people in my classes. I knew they were going to be small but I thought everyone would keep to themselves. In one class I had a lot of friends already so we hang out but I know everyone from all of my classes and talk to them when I see them around campus. I expected everyone to keep to themselves since it’s a class setting but most of us know each other by name and are even friends.”
“I think the hardest part for me, which I only realized a few weeks ago, is realizing that, this is cliché, but the only times we’ll be home is for breaks and even then you might be working or studying. I’m really close with my family, every Sunday was family day, we’d go to Church, go to lunch, go to dinner, all this tight knit Hispanic stuff. When I call home and ask ‘how are the girls’ (my little sisters) it’s the same routine of get up go to school go to piano class, but that used to by my routine, I used to be the one driving them around. Now when I ask them about their lives, I have a totally different routine. When they tell me about their new friends, I don’t know them. When I tell them about my new friends, they don’t know who they are. It was hard to realize that.”