“Disillusionment” - Being On My Own
“Disillusionment” - Being On My Own
Wow! It’s been 18 years already and I’m off living on my own now. What a change it is for me, now on my own. It’s not at all like I thought it would be when I came here. For a while I thought college was like how they portrayed it in the movies like American Pie 2, Higher Learning, and Animal House just to name a few. You know lots of parties, girls, and alcohol. Being from Hawaii we only have movies that show us what college is like. So when I first arrived here in Oregon all that I could think about was living a college life like in one of those movies. In the beginning it seemed like it but as time went by I realized that it’s not like I though it would be.
I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and have been raised there all my life. Now in college at Oregon State University, life on my own has had its ups and downs. At first what I thought it would be like was no rules, no parents, and no worries. Well it was for the first two weeks, I mean partying, drinking, and all the other things college students do these days. After a while it hit me that; “yeah life is fun and can be a party, but for how long?” Also I had to take in consideration that I didn’t have all the money in the world to be spending every day of the week. So that’s when things started getting tough and when you start to miss the simple things in life that were always around you when you were at home. For example like getting money, some people have various ways of getting it but at least we have a way of getting it when we are at home. And me being from Hawaii my home is not so close. Another example and probably the most common thing college student’s miss are having their own family’s home cooked meals. It can be pretty sad at times some of the meals us college students eat now days. Mainly the classes were not like what I thought it would be. I used to think that classes were easy and that all you had to do was just show up. But it’s more than that; teachers could...