My first day on campus definitely had a few hiccups, but I remember feeling very rewarded at the end of it. First of all, I thought that I had allotted myself plenty of time to get to campus. I tend to be one of those obnoxiously punctual people, so I took the time to factor in any kind of traffic and extra time to just walk around campus before my first class began and get a feeling for the new setting. There was no traffic on the highway... but there was plenty of traffic in the parking lot! I remember driving from lot to lot looking for a single open space and thinking "Wow, I really might be late for my first ever college class. When was the last time I was late to school? When my mom still had to drive me?". After about 15 minutes I had finally found plenty of open spaces in the back. I hooked my backpack on and had to do a pretty awkward looking speed walk to Progress Hall. 

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For the rest of the day I watched as other people did the same speed walk as I had done and felt reassured that I wasn't alone in a little first day blunder. All of my professors made jokes that day about how the parking lots could be kind of crazy the first week back to classes, but it wasn't a problem and that they understood how we could have been flustered by it. At the beginning of the day I felt pretty nervous about being in college and by the end of it I was able to see how everyone around me was in the exact same boat. That crammed parking lot helped me see that I wasn't the only person who was out of their element on the first day, everyone was just learning as they went.