From visiting Little 5 Points countless times, auditioning for "The Voice," driving to Buckhead one night just to meet Alex Ramos, buying concert tickets to see one of my favorite rappers with me just because he was hot, and wang night, I've met some of the most amazing and diverse people you could meet while in college. There's not a day you can't see how different yet completely alike we are! Although we always post in the group chat how much we love each other all the time, I felt like I never really told them how much I do appreciate them.

Thank you, as someone who started off as a shy and awkward person I've grown out of my shell and become not only confident but outspoken and extra sassy. You've accepted my weird self-obsession we've just named my LA mom personality. I've become a more well rounded person who tries to understand things and learn constantly. Someone who has a nickname with a personality of it's own and memories to last a lifetime. Thank you for helping me shape myself into the person I needed to be, not the one who tried to be like everyone else in hopes she'd grab someone's attention.

I'll always replay the many crazy things we've done together in my mind. All of the nights watching "Futurama" and "Blue Mountain State" with Jack and Eric cause I didn't want to go sit in my bed reading those nights. Talking about Woodstock and our love for indie music with Abuela, and being at McDonald's maybe four times a week with Court. Getting my first tattoo after class on a Wednesday afternoon and being teased that the artist might mess up to only scare me more. Teasing me for loving Skate Maloley and calling him Skeet Balogney just to watch me get all whiney. But also the ones of us sitting around the fire at Max's late at night just enjoying each other's company before we all left for Christmas break. The nights when we played cards all night and spent more time yelling at each other cause "that was a stupid move!" and how you lost that round. All the little things in between and the nights we did nothing hold a special place in my heart.

Thank you for accepting me when I felt like no one would. Supporting my ideas even though some of them aren't the best, but letting me mess up so I can figure out how to fix it. Thank you for listening to me rant when I'm upset and always replying the same way, "Forget them you have us." For all of the nights we gossiped about boys because we're actually 12 year old girls sometimes. And to the boys the nights we spent talking about video games and movies. Going to the game room some days from before it opened to when it closed to play Monopoly ending with someone throwing the board at another. Thank you for all of the nights of playing with Jack's party lights and "Darude Sandstorm."

I'm not sure where I will end up within these next few months, or what's going to happen with everything going on, but I'm so thankful I can message the group chat whenever I need a friend. I love staying up until almost 3 in the morning skyping each other just talking about our futures and how we're all going to do this and that when we're all together again. I'm so thankful that we don't even call ourselves a friend group, we call ourselves a family because that's exactly what we are. I hope that many years from now all of us are still in touch, and although I won't know until that time comes I will continue to love you guys all I can now so that if we lose touch I can say I gave our friendship my all.

Thank you for showing me that it's okay to be different, weird, shy, or creative, so long as you have someone supporting you the whole way by doing just the same.