You probably need an O&M instructor. Your state or country’s disability services should be able to help you get that

I'm not a guide dog person, but if you try to take my cane away from me I will make you regret it! I assume you have a cane. Get a cane.

If it's a school, you can probably learn it. The only real issues are if there are lots of huge open areas with no landmarks or if there's a lot of safety issues around roadways with cars. All the advice you've had about getting professional help is really good, but that sort of help won't always be around. The purpose of getting help like that is not so they can solve all your problems, the purpose of it is to learn how to solve problems yourself. As you have found you will not always have a guide available, and frankly you won't always want to be walking around with someone anyway.

There will be journeys you can solo, and journeys you can't, and that's fine. I've been doing this twenty years and there's stuff I prefer not to do if I can avoid it, and beyond that there's stuff I wouldn't dream of doing ever because I'd just die. That's normal and it's fine. It's just a case of finding ways to do stuff. You have to be smart and nobody else can do that for you, but just be methodical, solve the problems one by one until there are no problems left. Then when you hit a problem you can't solve, get help. That's it. It's not rocket science and there is no trick.

I went to college less than a year after I went blind, which was the first time I'd lived away from home. This was rather like learning to swim by jumping in the deep end. That was twenty years ago and I now work as a freelance musician, which means getting to all kinds of odd places, theatres and studios large and small and I often go to places I have never been before. It takes a lot of planning and when I can't plan around something I book help, but it works.

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Do get a cane. I have one which I use when I am going to unfamiliar places, and do remember the routes I use to get to work/outside. And do attend O and M classes to learn how to use the cane properly.

Hi. The advice that myself and others are giving will likely be impacted by the joys of COVID-19.

If at all possible, I would strongly suggest going to a blindness rehabilitation program before starting school. If I could have done it all over again, I would have attended one of these programs first. College is hard enough for anyone, so it is important to set yourself up for success.

If you haven’t obtained a cane, get one. There several websites that you can purchase one from. The NFB also has a free cane program, but note that there canes are not foldable.

I hope that this helps.

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