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K, I can relate on the college level. I take it you are in England, like moi?

I was so intimidated by mine at first - it's quite big I suppose, but what made it huge was not just that I was new, but also that the campus is very very big. I didn't get lost, but I felt lost, all the time. I only had one class with people I knew, and I was lucky in that half the people there were from my old school. But in English and Psychology, I didn't know anyone. For English, I turned up late to my first lesson, and everyone stared at me. It didn't help that I was going through some goth phase at the time and, in retrospect, looked awful.

I spent the first two months hating it and really wanting to leave, but as time went on it became the first educational institution I liked and now I can't drag myself away from it even though I've left!

During the beginning of my second year, I became very depressed and it turned out to be the worst year of my life, but I had amazing support from certain people, and if I hadn't been at college and had access to those people I don't know if I would have made it.

Stick with college. You're going to hate it, at first. But stick with it. I'm hoping the lucrative side of university is what's going to keep me from hopping on a plane home.