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So since I have started my college career, I have been faced with a lot of new kinds of decisions.  I have had some that were defiantly more exciting that others. Every day I am faced with questions that my parents used to answer for me and that I took for granted.  Eating, for example, now lies solely on my back. For the last semester, there were plenty of times where I would just forget to eat for a whole day.  There were also other days when I would eat way too much.  These small, sometimes trivial, decisions make up the bulk of what I have to decide every day.
    On the other hand, I do have a great deal of responsibility that I didn't have before in areas that will affect my life forever.  When it come to really taking care of my finances, my educational obligations, and even searching for affordable health insurance, is now is my hands.  Though I can call my parents whenever I feel like it, these types of decisions are truly up to me when it really comes down to it.  Though the responsibility of finding, say, the most affordable health insurance, is up to me, it is also important for me not to get swept away in all of the decisions. 
    Though my life at college has afforded me a great deal of freedom, it comes with the price of dealing with this whole new field of responsibility.  Some days there is so much work that I have to get done in my school work, I may forget some important paperwork, or phone call I should have made.  If I happen to make the wrong decision on something that costs me extra money.  These are the kinds of situations that add to my level of stress.  It is also my own responsibility to deal with this stress in various ways.   There are also times when things just work out.  If I find the most affordable insurance quotes, for example, that saves me some money, then some of that stress is lifted.  So with my responsibility, also comes the rewards of the hard work.

posted by: Jen on Friday, March 21, 2008 @ 9:10 PM