Alarm

Life in college can be a bit daunting sometimes and no matter what way you decide to look at it you are going to need to change something about the way you look at the world before the whole thing is over. If that doesn't happen to you then I am sorry but you have missed out on most of the point of college. With all of the information being pumped in to your brain and the hours of socialization that are key to making a well rounded human being, you are bound to hit some points where life just doesn't want to be in agreement with you. These are the moments when you change the way you look at the world and change who you are for the better. My developmental psychology professor always says "use it or lose it" when referring to skills that we learn. This essentially means that the less we practice something the more we're going to lose our ability to do that task no matter how simple or difficult it actually is. I also take this to mean that we can do this intentionally. If we have a fear which we wish to overcome, then we must simply refuse to use that fear as we have in the past. In other words, we must become ourselves without that fear.
I am speaking about this because I have a friend who recently had his house broken in to. He lives off campus and thus has to put all of his hopes in to the simple door locks that they have to protect his stuff ad his life. He was ever really afraid before but now since they had their house broken in to he is afraid of it happening again. They had some things stolen while they were out and none of it was insured. Since then the landlord put in a GE Simon XT which is a wireless alarm. Even with this fancy new home alarm though my friend is still scared every night when he goes to bed that his house will be vandalized. He is one of the people that I think needs to have the realization while still in college that he shouldn;t live i fear and then he will be all right for life.