After listening to my audio journal entries, I noticed a couple of themes that I discuss in almost all of my videos. One of the most prominent is my struggle with planning things out. It seems that just when I think things are under control, I then have a ton of stuff to do. I often feel and share at least a little bit of stress over almost every entry I do. I also discuss doing a lot of things with my family, since they live close by, so we see each other almost every weekend. Although I know that I should spend some weekends on campus to go to activities and things like that, I also discussed a few times throughout my journals that things are really all that normal. As a result, there aren’t nearly as many activities and events going on, and the things that do happen are pretty restrictive, since all the new pandemic rules need to be followed. I also briefly talk about in some of them the social aspect of how my experience is going. It seems to be much more difficult to form connections with people and make friends, because most classes now only meet once a week, and people aren’t allowed to have more than one person at the dorm at a time. The most social that I am able to be is when I go to the ukulele club meetings, but those only happen every two weeks, so I haven’t been able to really get to know them that well yet. In addition, the first couple of weeks I was prepared, although a little stressed, about getting things done in a timely manner. Even though I am getting better at this, it seems like I don’t ever really catch a break, whether it is a paper due or an assignment coming up. Chemistry is also a subject that I struggle with, and although I can eventually figure it out, it is not really a subject that interests me and as a result, I find it more difficult to get the motivation to actually do the assignments. But overall, I seem to be doing okay adjusting to these new experiences, even though I don’t really have anyone who can say they know what this first year experience is like, because nobody really does.