He had a goal, get into a good college.

Now, he is in a college, then what?

His thinking had been focused on an external reference point. When that is removed, he is lost.

College life is a wonderful time in a person's life. There're so many things he can do. Smell the flowers.

He needs to move that reference point into himself. What do I want? What is my own stuff? After so many years serving that external reference point, it is not easy to reclaim that "self".