New day, new me!!

Today was my Orientation.
I sat through many presentations about library and information science and felt more and more sure about my decision. Which is good considering today was the first day of my next two years.
During some down time I was chatting with another student about all the freshman walking around, thinking back on my years as a freshman RA, and recounting how dorky and awkward everyone seemed. I remembered watching everyone struggle to reinvent themselves, put their high school days behind them, leaving relationships, stereotypes, social habits at the door as they entered a whole new chance at life.
It didn't take me long to realize that I was in the same boat in many ways.
I am in a new place, a new career path, making new decisions, and figuring it all out on my own.
My reinvention? It's less harmful to my liver as the freshmans'. My reinvention seems to be allowing myself to be myself and take my work and my self seriously.
My advisor said that I seem like someone whom will do really well here, so I take her compliment and say it back to myself. I know I will do well, I am capable of great things, and now is the time to show it to myself.