Hi, zdude!
Welcome to PokéCommunity! I'm glad you just started to come back to Pokémon. That's certainly a good idea, especially since X & Y are coming out this October for the 3DS! :p
Me & you both started playing at an early age with the original games. Those were awesome times and games. It's sad you don't have them anymore, but at least you got to play them when you were younger.
I'm currently in my third semester of college, so that's interesting you're going to be heading off. At least for me, it was very different from high school. You have wayyyy more time to do things, but you also have to study a lot more, at least in my case. I just restarted my SoulSilver, too, but I'm currently replaying my Diamond version. :D
Hope to see you around!
P.S. Cool siggy! I loved that episode, lol!