Not long ago (though longer than I would like to admit), I was a confused college student. You see, although I was an over-achieving, Type A, 4.0 GPA salutatorian, I was also a shy, small-town girl who was the first in her family to graduate from high school, much less go to college, and suddenly I was plopped in the middle of this giant (to me) university halfway across the state, away from every[...]