I wish you good luck is all I can say. When you are there, try to find a person you can trust once you get to know the crowd around you a little better, this can be very important. With 22 youīll still be a really young person, so I donīt think "you ruined your life" like someone else said.
Ideas for fighting boredom in prison:
- read books (And, in two years, bump the James Joyce thread with your insights)
- learn a language
- learn drawing
- learn
Go (you would obviously need to take a cheap set with you, and need some luck to find someone to play with)
- Get a tattoo (or, better yet, donīt)