As we rang in the new year over the weekend and said goodbye to 2017, we all can't help but think what a year it has been. All the things we did, all the places we traveled, all the people we meant and so on. For most of my peers and I, it was a very eventful year that we will all remember and reflect back on in the many years to come.

2017 is what I like to call the year of many firsts and lasts. I turned 18 years-old, with that came some piercings. I got many senior pictures taken and I attended my last prom. I failed at camping on the front lawn of my high school with all my friends. Yes, we all graduated the following week. I attended many graduation parties, including my own. I jumped off a cliff. I spent a week in Florida with my family. I went to Kent State University to start my freshman year of college. I attended many of my boyfriends high school football games as well as celebrating 2 years of being together. I also spent the holidays with my family and friends.

Though those are just some of the things I did in 2017, I learned a lot about myself and about life. I learned that my health is very important and that it's in my best interest to take care of myself in order to perform my best. I will never hear the end of this, but I learned a lot of the things my parents have said over the years was right. Like how life moves so fast. I really learned to live in the moment in 2017 or how it's okay to say no. Whether you don't want to go to a party or you just want to stay in. It's okay to say no without any reason behind it. My parents have always said life is what you make it and 2017 definitely taught me that. College, my social life, the good times and the bad, it's all what I make it out to be.

2017 also taught me that the time has come for me to try this whole "adulting" thing. Therefore, I have learned to be on my own as well as managing school work and how to study. I figured out that grades don't mean everything and that they're just a letter or a percentage. The important thing is the experience you take from the lesson. I learned that time with my family is precious and that I probably shouldn't blow them off as much as I do. Oddly enough, I learned that I love writing in 2017.

Now that 2018 is here I remind myself that I have 365 new days to fail at "adulting", spend my parents money on makeup and Starbucks that I don't need and binge watch Friends for the 6th time.