Macbook Pro retina 13.5 128GB!?

Hello!
I have purchased a Macbook Pro with retina display with an 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD. This is my first mac and i'm a bit worried about the storage. I will be using if for college work, pictures, surfing the web, listening to music, watching films, and that's about it. Of course none of you know how much i am looking to store on in yet (i don't either) but there isn't a huge amount of everything and i just wanted to hear if anyone has 128GB and if it works for them!? I use Google drive at my college, so a lot of my documents are on there.
I am also looking to sync my iPhone to my Macbook (unsure how to do this yet) so will that take up even more space?
Thank you all!

OWC is a trusted vendor and offers upgrades, and can do the upgrades.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3_160 0MHz_SDRAM
Your system has Thunderbolt which can offer fast external storage.
there should be small fast SSD, and a small "case' for your old SSD (you can clone your system).
This is not the MacBook Pro forum, get a lot of their users here.
MacBook Pro
I think 128GB is so small only a tablet, maybe a really cheap MacBook Air should.
getting a larger M.2 SSD blade that plugs in should help. This is for 2013, only an 'example' and alternate company to OWC
http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Upgrade-Macbook-display/dp/B00JKCHMMS/r ef=pd_sim_sbs_e_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DGQCNJTZ42QXMWC1W54

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128gig SSD is always plenty storage for 98% of people
due to:
Your Solid State Drive and having enough space inside your Macbook Air & Pro
Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
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A Professional Example
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2. Redundancy for important data.
3. Necessitated ideal space for large media files for collections of pictures, videos, and music etc.
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