I beleive that this year in college is an example of the seperation process. I am just now beginning to disassociate myself from old customs and habits, but I haven't truly grasped new customs an habits yet. This would place me on the seperation process from Tinto's multistage transitioning process. I feel that I am leaving the seperation process but not yet, because I have not sought out to accept new customs or habits yet and I am not completely removed from familar surroundings. I'm still in high school which explains why it is so slow for me to move on to the next step in the transitioning process but I can see that I am slowly removing the unneeded habits and customs that I use to have.
An example of what I have removed to be involved of the seperation process of Tinto's multistep transitioning process is how I removed my sense of dependency. I am now a little bit more independant but I have not tried to seek out total indepedance yet.I have also removed wasted time. I now try not to waste time but I haven't sought out to avoid wasting time completely yet, only to reduce it.
Overall I agree with Tinto's multistep transitioning process. I believe that I am only starting out through this process but I also believe that I am going through it in a nice pace. I agree with the idea that if I wasn't so close to familar customs that I would be able to go through the transitioning process faster but I feel that I am transitioning successfully.
I believe that the seperation part of the multistep transitioning process would become more intense when I go into a four year institution. If I were to go into Penn State for example, I believe that I would (obviously) have to adjust to the distance from home, but also to the increase to the student to teacher ratio (17-1). Which may not be as hard of a challenge since the class are still small but it would still be a slight increase. Also I won't have as much trouble in finding something to do since there are plenty of activities available, however I may be overwhelmed and have to adjust to this new range of options. Overall I feel that the seperation process may take a while to adjust too but I feel that once I have completed this step the transitioning phase and the incorporating phase should take no time to adjust to because the differences doesn't appear to be too overwhelming. I will need to work on "letting go" of what is familar to me before I can move on.
