I absolutely love college. I love the late nights spent writing research papers, and the nights that turn into mornings where you piece together what happened after the pre-game. I love the days spent at the library that transition into the night trying to catch up on months’ worth of reading for that big exam the next day. I will forever cherish the endless afternoons spent eating chicken tenders and strawberry lemonade with my friends, and getting chicken tenderheart. I will never forget Theater class; the class that my friends and I thought was going to be so easy, but we got a D plus in. I love walking into a class bright and early for an 8 am looking like I got hit by a train on the way there. I love college for the good, the bad and the ugly and I wouldn’t trade my experiences for the world, and you won’t either.

You will love college because you will experience all these things too. You will learn lessons in one week that you wouldn’t get from one month of your first year of high school. You will fall in love with the atmosphere, and although it is an academic kick in the ass, nothing worth doing in life comes easy. I can promise you that your hard work will pay off, and that you will find success in the classroom, and outside of it. You will learn to appreciate all that the college experience has to offer from the classes that make you cry and question why you even chose to go to school, to the food that will make you question if it is even edible, to the nights that end up becoming puzzle pieces in the morning. I can promise you, once it is over you will most definitely want to go back. It is what you make of it, and I hope that you make it worth while.