"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting"
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The subtext is about identity more than geography. “Starting fresh” sounds clean, even empowering, but in practice it means becoming unrecognized. You’re suddenly auditioning for social belonging, rebuilding your calendar from scratch, translating yourself to strangers. Biggs, an actor whose most famous roles trade on awkwardness and transitional male insecurity, is implicitly trustworthy here: he’s made a career out of characters dropped into new hierarchies and forced to perform “normal” under pressure. That cultural baggage gives the quote a wink without turning it into a joke.
Contextually, it’s a counterweight to the Instagram version of college. By naming it “daunting” in plain language, he gives listeners permission to admit fear without pathologizing it. The intent isn’t to offer strategy; it’s to normalize the tremble at the edge of reinvention, where excitement and dread are the same feeling wearing different outfits.
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| Topic | New Beginnings |
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Biggs, Jason. (2026, January 14). Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/like-anyone-who-goes-to-college-youre-leaving-a-112768/
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Biggs, Jason. "Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/like-anyone-who-goes-to-college-youre-leaving-a-112768/.
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"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/like-anyone-who-goes-to-college-youre-leaving-a-112768/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.





