ONU Life

My semester here at ONU is going pretty good for the most part. I’m not really struggling in any classes besides microeconomics, other than that I’m having a pretty good semester this far. I feel like this semester will probably be the easiest semester I’ll have all throughout my college career, simply because the classes I’m taking so far aren’t terrible this year. Talking with my academic advisor, she was able to make my schedule easy because she understood that I would be in season this year and that I needed an easy schedule as possible to keep up with everything that’s going on. 

I’m starting to adapt to being away from home a lot better this semester. As you all know, I’m from Atlanta, Georgia, which is nine hours away from Ada. When I first started going to ONU, I would get homesick and call my mom to tell her how much I hated being away from home and how much I missed being home. She played a big role in me being able to accept the fact that I’m away from home by her motivational talks and telling me constantly it's only for four years. I’m starting to realize that I’ve made so many good friends here and now I consider ONU a second home to me. Over the summer, I surprisingly was ready to come back to school because I missed my friends so much and missed being around Ada. Sounds weird coming from me since I come from a very popular city with a population of over a million people versus coming back to a small rural area with a population of five thousand people, half including students at ONU. Overall, I enjoy being at ONU and it’s such a blessing being able to make friends around campus, playing football, and enjoying college at the same time. I’m ok with not coming home because of how much I enjoy being at ONU.