2 down, 2 to go!

As of 9:30 tomorrow morning, I will be half way through my college career. Wow! I honestly cannot believe that I have been in college for 2 years! Where has time gone!? In the past few days, I've been busy taking final exams, packing up my dorm room, and saying goodbye to friends as they leave for summer. Once again, I am the last one to leave for summer break. My roommate and 3 of my closest friends have been gone since Saturday and another close friend woke me up at 9:20 this morning to come over and say goodbye. Despite being excited that starting tomorrow I dive into the craziness that is summer vacation, I am saddened by the prospect of not seeing some of my friends again until September. I can honestly admit that when I said goodbye to Caitie on Saturday, I almost cried even though I will see her next weekend at a mutual friend's wedding.

Time really has flown! I remember moving into college summer of '09 and being so scared and anxious about big, scary college and now, as I look at the boxes sitting all over my room, I can't even imagine how much leaving this place after graduation is going to suck. Graduating will be cool and having a degree will be awesome, but you only get experience college once. Of course there's graduate school, but I've heard it's no where near as fun as the first 4 years are! ;o)

A few of my friends who are still in High School and getting ready to go to college in the fall have asked me what the best part of college is. And you know what? I can't really pinpoint one thing that's better than another. Going to class definitely isn't a high point, neither is the homework. Sometimes the dining hall food sucks, but hey, that happens in High School too. If I absolutely had to pick my favorite part of college, like if my life depended on it, it would be all the new friends you get to make.

The friends I have made over these past 2 years of my life are honestly some of the greatest people I have ever met. They're the type of people who I can always count on no matter what. The friends who you know that if you ever found yourself in jail, you could call them and at the drop of a hat they would be there to bail you out. The types of people who make eating lunch everyday last for two hours because everyone at the table is laughing to hard to eat. With these people I've stuck out Intro to Education, been bored to death in Macro Economics, trudged through Spanish, laughed so hard I cried during Symphonic band rehearsal, injected mice with drugs in BioPsych, and many other things that would take to long to specifically name. They honestly are the friends I will remember my whole life.

Dalton eating a beignet during our AMAZING interterm trip to New Orleans.

Jaime, Caitie, Nichole, Me, Caitlyn, and Tiffany during our last get together of sophomore year.

Caitie and I being .... well, pretty much our normal selves. =)

Sam and I looking spiffy because we randomly matched one day.

Katy, Sam B, and me before one of Caitie's field hockey games.

In closing, my friends are what have made these past 2 years of college so excited and fun for me. They've helped me grow stronger as a person and have taught me the true meaning of "through thick and thin" and for this, I am forever grateful. =) Another thing I will miss over the summer and next year is my dorm room. I have lived in the same room for the past 2 years and moving out of it will be bitter-sweet. The majority of the memories I have from the past 2 years have taken place in this room and they will be cherished. I hope the incoming freshmen who gets assigned this room will have as much fun in it as my roommate and I did. =) I feel like I have rambled enough for one night, plus it's getting late and I still have some packing to do and one last final to study for. To my friends who may read this, see you in September!! And to my dorm room, Dillon 121, thanks for the memories! It's been real! =)