College (bit of a rant)

I've just realised that it's been nearly a year since I last spoke to/saw anyone from my secondary school and it's probably been the best year of my life. I had a really difficult time for like the last 2½ years of high school mentally and socially due to an unhealthy relationship and the aftermath which included people blaming me for the end of our 'friendship' despite knowing nothing about the situation, so I always said college was going to be a complete restart for me and it has been. I was very stressed about it initially but I managed to make friends on the first day by helping someone find their classroom (that I was also in) and then just kind of following them after class to ask of they were free next lesson. Everyone was in a similar scenario because even though some people came with groups of friends, they weren't always in lessons at the same time or were quite open minded about meeting new people. And suddenly I feel so much more comfortable than I did at my old school, I have a small friend group that I can trust with practically anything, a wider friend group (previously mentioned friend will speak to anyone so essentially made friends for me but if it works, it works) that I can go to if I need to, I do 3 subjects that I love, and I don't feel sick everytime I think about school amymore. There's also been so many opportunities, I was hesitant to sign up to things like lectures and trips at first but they've genuinely been so useful. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do after college so took quite a wide range of subjects just because they interest me and I enjoy them, but through the opportunities my college has given us, I've realised I don't want to go to university (even though they keed pushing it) and want to go into engineering. I've also just become so much more comfortable with myself, especially due to the people I'm surrounded by. I never used to be able to picture myself coming out to anyone but now I go by my preferred name and pronouns with so many people, and some people even only know me as Logan, which I could have never imagined. Anyway, I hope if anyone reads this that is stressed about starting college or a new school next year that it can maybe provide a bit of peace of mind.