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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WmRAllen67" data-source="post: 2955521" data-attributes="member: 20456">If your college is anything like my undergrad, Freshman Orientation will keep you very busy for a few days, and throw you together with a bunch of folks who are going through the exact same thing you are... so in some respects there's a social group provided for you right off the bat... and with folks from all over the country coming in to the typical freshman class, there's bound to be a few that you'll click with...And if you want to call home, then call home-- you're going to college, not on a three-year trip to Mars. Find a happy medium between the "call every day" and "you never call, you never write" and you'll be fine... Heck, I'm almost forty and still ring my folks up about once a week or so, if only to get the family news and make sure everything's fine...Once classwork hits in earnest, you may find that you don't call as often, and haven't even realized it-- because you may be doing too much to think about it...I keep finding that I worry about things that really don't need to be worried about. Try not to build the homesickness you might possibly feel at some point in the future into something that sucks the life out of you today. Do take Roderigo's advice and identify the support networks the school provides, but only as a backup, not as your only plan for dealing with things...BTW, congratulations! You should have tons 'o fun! I enjoyed it so much the first time that I'm finally going back myself, but for me the percieved "hard thing" is becoming a TA-- I'm just not a public speaker...</blockquote>

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