Dear Family And Friends,

This has been the most amazing, challenging, different and interesting year of my life, and thanks to all of you, I am able to finish the year off with a smile and a sense of accomplishment.

I started off the year thinking this shouldn't be hard, it's only school, I've been doing this my whole life, I won't miss my friends and family. I was wrong. I missed every single one of you every single day. We may not have been in contact for weeks on end, but those notifications that you liked my Instagram picture or one of my tweets, let me know that you were still out there somewhere being a part of my life. Days came and went that Timehop would remind me where I was a year ago today or two or even five and I think to myself I wish things were still like that and then I realize we are the same people as we were back then just older and little bit smarter about what we post on the Internet.

I was scared I would never make friends in college because I consider myself weird, but all of you taught me that while I may be weird, I'm also unique and unique trumps weird everyday of the week. You taught me to embrace who I am, go for what I want and no matter what I do, I should always be happy. So guess what? I do have friends, I am in clubs, I'm happy and I am finding my way through life just fine.

I am about to come home for four months and work my butt off because I may have changed in some ways, but I'm still a poor college student. I might also seem a little different in the ways I act, but I promise you that I will always be the same person you came to love and enjoy, I just learned how to hide my wild side. So thank you friends and family for helping me make it this far. I love you all and I cannot wait until finals are over so I can see you.