People express different perspectives regarding change. Some people spend their lives fearing and avoiding change. Others, however, think change is positive and encourage it. In the article, "When Roommates Were Random", Dalton Conley encourages change and reflects its positives through his college experiences. He was someone that sought change and saw the positives of it. I have always dreaded change growing up, but knew it was inevitable and learned to accept it. College brought many changes to my life from social aspects to personal change, that I learned to value and appreciate.
College is known to be the place where one can reinvent themselves, giving that nobody knows who you are. For Dalton Conley it was the opportunity of the lifetime as he states, “Eager to throw off my nerdy past and reinvent myself at college, I wrote ‘party animal’ on my roommate application form …” (Conley 39). He would not remain the guy who was a nerd and absorbed in school, but someone who interacts with people and has fun. He saw the chance of changing who he was, and he took it. Although for me it was deeper than transforming my party life, it was the opportunity to be myself
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It is a midpoint for people to change who they are as a person if they wish to. Some argue they should not change now that they are in college because they should be staying true to themselves. However, they fail to realize one will be in the same spot for life if they do not change even a little because they will fall into a cycle that will sway them nowhere. I can justify that change is not as terrible as it is made out to be. I really learned a great deal about myself and have become a more authentic version through the changes I have faced in college. Remembering that change is not terrible and it does not mean you are fake is key to let change take over to better