My Senior year is coming up quicker than I'd like to think. I've spent the last three years being the literal definition of struggling. This year is going to be different. My best friend and I are going to make sure of it.

This year, I'm living with my best friend (and her dog) off campus. I'm signing my first lease. I'm going to have a great apartment with a pool and gym and all that stuff I don't have on campus. But my living situation isn't going to be the only way this year is going to be the best. While this year will be full of "lasts," I also want it to be full of "firsts." When I walk across that stage, I want to be able to say that my Senior year was the best one.

In order to achieve that, my roommate and I are going to be making a Senior year bucket list. It will include all of the staples of our school like jumping in the fountains, but it will also include things that have nothing to do with our school. There are just some things that you want to do with your best friend, and we want to do them before we graduate and life starts getting in the way of things. These things could be as basic as going to a batting cage on a stressful day or taking in one of the baseball games downtown that we always say we're going to go to. It can be something elaborate like watching an entire genre of movies on Netflix or instituting a mandatory family dinner night each week.

I think that every person should have their bucket list that they want to finish before they graduate. This doesn't just go for college, but for high school as well. It gives you the opportunity to do things that you normally wouldn't do with some of your favorite people. In the crazy year that is about to happen, I don't want to forget to prioritize the people that have made the last three years so worth it and have helped me through the long nights of studying.

It is important to me to not only prioritize the academic side of college, but also the fun side. This bucket list will make us remember to make time for each other, even when we have a million tests and essays to get done before the end of the week. We'll always get them done, but we may put them off for a little later in favor of hitting up the taco place downtown that we've always wanted to try.