Finishing my freshman year of college is bringing out all the feels. It was a year like no other and was one of the most amazing years of my life. I am so thankful that each thing happened because it gave me a year full of amazing friends and memories.

I started the year with a broken heart

Two days before I started school, I got my heart broken. I was devastated. The first week of school I cried myself to sleep, and then would wake up and go to class like nothing was wrong. And then I found a new guy, this took away my opportunity to experience college as a single girl, I didn’t really new meet people and it didn’t help me get into the swing of college. That changed when I once found myself heartbroken and single again, but this time it stayed that way. While it would have been nice to be able to go out and meet people at the beginning of the year, I am glad that I was in this position. It helped me find myself, be able to appreciate being single and my own company. It also help everything else fall into place, and for that, I am forever grateful.

I met my best friends

I never thought that I would find two girls that are so amazing, but I did. They keep me going when I discouraged and are always down for Chipotle and coffee dates. I don’t know how I ever could have survived this year without them. I can’t thank them enough for letting me sleep in their beds, laughing with me, taking care of me, and being so amazing they want to put up with me.

I joined a sorority

Ever since I saw my first episode of “Greek” I knew that I wanted to be in a sorority. When I got to Boise State though, I wasn’t so sure, because it wasn’t like I thought it would be. When I first met the girls I now call my sisters I knew that I was home, I knew that joining a sorority was the right thing for me. I am forever grateful for the group of girls that made my home, a lot homier.

I stayed home

This time last year I was dreading college. Boise State was 100% not the school for me. I was convinced it would be terrible, all of my friends had left for college and I was here. At the beginning of the year, I still didn’t feel like I had made the right choice, but eventually everything fell into place, I was in a sorority, I had friends and Boise State didn’t seem that bad anymore. I also had my family to bring me dinner in the library when I was there all night, to do my laundry when I was too busy to it myself, my dog to cuddle with me when I was stressed and I had an incredible support system that wasn’t that far away.

I tried new things

Never before in my life did I think I would go zip lining in the snow, but that happened. My first year of college brought a lot of new experience, and I am forever grateful for them. It was a chance to grow and learn to experience new things. I had amazing friends around me, to create amazing memories.