Breakfast talk

She began to tell me a bit about what her week was like. This week was full of ups and downs for her. She started fighting with her roomate and it blew up into a huge fight this week. Its been hard with the fighting because she has been trying to do her work and get ready for spring break to come down to the shore. She says she has been very stressed out all week. I wanted to take her mind off of this week that had passed so i figured i would ask some constructive questions. I asked her who her role models were. Carolyns role models are her cousin Katie and her mom because they both are strong women and have succeeded in a mainly dominant male work place and whatever they put their minds to, they accomplish. We also talked about her fears of leaving high school and going to college. Carolyns fears about college were mainly social, such as fitting in and making friends but once school got going and she went to class and started meeting people in her dorm, then she realized there was nothing to worry about. She decided to go to the universiry of rhode island because it has a great Marine Biology program and also because when they visited the school, her and her mother both fell in love with it and she knew thats where she wanted to go. One thing that she thought that was proven wrong was that there would be a lot less drama in college than in high school, but the problem with her roomate proves otherwise. When she first thought about going away to school she thought it was going to be just an extention of high school where she didnt live with her parents. But not that she is there she knows that college is a lot more responsibility. Getting work done without having someone telling you it has to be turned in and classes are harder than high school. But she does feel that her high school did prepare her very well for the workload that she got this year. In her opinion, when you go to college you need to realize your limits. you can party but should limit it to where it is not going to interfere with your school work.