Adelphi gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful... And also terrified of graduating.

Through the emotional and academic hurdles being flung at me during my last semester as an undergraduate, John Green is one of the only things that keeps me sane. Particularly, one of his Vlogbrothers videos titled "Is College Worth It?" which is a question I have been repeatedly asking myself over the past few months of capstone-ing. In this video, he argues that even though college in America is "criminally overpriced," it is still very much worth it, as it makes you a "better and more informed observer of the universe." His most comforting comment to me personally was, "When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature, like, infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me." And in that, I find hope!

All of this talk about college loans and job opportunities is well and good, and very useful, but I find myself needing a different sort of comfort as the weight of graduation falls on me. Being that it is less than two months away now, I find myself feeling increasingly horrified. But I am also excited... And I am also anxious. To try and cope with the emotions that come with leaving my small college, my comfort zone and all my friends, behind, I, again, turn to John Green.

I have compiled here a list of quotes that are meant to help us second semester seniors through this emotional transition into the "real world":

1. "What a slut time is. She screws everybody." -- John Green, "The Fault in Our Stars"

Because I often find myself waking up thinking that I'm still just a freshman.

2. "Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters." --John Green, Will Grayson, "Will Grayson"

Because now is a time to live without fear of judgment or failure. Take these last few weeks of college to do all you want to do in this period of your life. The looming date of graduation should be enough to prove that it doesn't last forever.

3. "If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything." -- John Green, "The Fault in Our Stars"

Because finding our impact and place in this world, and trying to make it a better place, is incredibly stressful.

4. "“I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.” --John Green, Will Grayson, "Will Grayson"

Because it is important to hold close the people who make us feel unscattered, especially now.

5. "The world is not a wish-granting factory." -- John Green, "The Fault in Our Stars"

Because it totally isn't, and it's important to remember that through all the inevitable job rejection that is to come.

6. "It is so hard to leave until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." --John Green, "Paper Towns"

Because sometimes it is overwhelmingly difficulty to pull off the band-aid and burst out of your comfort zone, but that's what graduation is all about.

7. "What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try and do something remarkable?" -- John Green, "An Abundance of Katherines"

Because now is a time to take what we learned in college and go do great things for this world.

8. "We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken." -- John Green, "Looking for Alaska"

Because we need to remember that pain will come and pain will go. It makes us stronger. It makes us who we are. We should be welcoming the struggles that come with graduating, not running from them.