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It's getting to the point where I'll have to choose a college soon, and there's one uncertainty that's really starting to nag at me now that high school graduation is a couple months away. One of the few colleges I'm heavily considering is about 10 minutes away from my current home. If I choose to go there, I'll obviously live at home and commute so I can save the $10,000 (and I get to keep my sweet bedroom). But I'm worried that I'll have a harder time making friends if I don't live in a dorm on campus. I don't know how other people think stuff like this through, so my worry here might seem a bit insignificant, I guess. But I've really had to work hard to overcome personality challenges and social anxiety to make the friends I have now. There was a period of about 5 years where I was absolutely alone and had no friends whatsoever. I don't want to go back to that ever again. But as confident as I feel while alone and with my friends, it all goes away when I'm with new people. Now that graduation is eminent, most of my good friends are going to be moving away (my best friends is looking at a college 7 hours away, for example ). I'm worried that if I have the crutch of living with my family, I'll rely on it too much and miss out on connecting with people at college... At the same time, I could be worrying for nothing and find that I'm able to maintain the courage I built up. But even then, I worry that the very fact that I'm not living with the rest of the students will put me at a disadvantage... Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated.
