Freshman year is coming to an end. It feels like just yesterday I was moving into my dorm and saying goodbye to my parents. So much has happened over these last few months. I feel like I’m a different person now.

I have survived living on my own and navigating the ups and downs of college. It was a time for growth and I’m happy to have experienced it here at Delaware.

There have been many positives as well. I started writing for Odyssey which allowed me to set aside a time each week to let my creative juices flow and formulate them into different articles. Although there have been many times where I have had writer's block, it allowed me to push through and write what I was really thinking.

I started dating a really great guy. Although I wished this had happened sooner in the school year, everything does, in fact, happen for a reason. He gets along so well with my friends and I genuinely enjoy spending time with him.

The biggest part of my year though was the friends that I had made. Without them, my life would be boring and I wouldn’t have had half of the amount of fun as I did this year. We all somehow gravitated towards each other and now we’re this big group that navigated college together.

Some of them have become my absolute best friends. I didn’t expect this to happen when coming to college, but it did and I’m beyond excited about it. We became friends so quickly simply because we’re living out of each other back pockets and are always around each other.

All I have to do is walk out of my room and down the hall to find someone to talk to. That’s my favorite part of college because someone is always around and ready to hang out. It’s nice when all of your friends live right down the hall and every night feels like a weekend.

It’s never a dull moment with our group. There’s always someone saying something stupid, and yes it will always be caught on camera. We make each other laugh so hard that we end up crying just because what that person said was so absurd.

It feels weird whenever I go home and I can’t go and talk to someone or ask if they want to make a POD run together. Sometimes it’s nice to just lay in bed and chill with someone as you both watch TV or do work. It’s just nice to always have people around.

I have never stayed up until the early morning hours in my life, but it has happened multiple times here. For good and for the bad. It doesn’t seem crazy to do that either. Someone will always want to keep talking and by the time you realize it, the sun is coming up.

I can’t thank my group of friends enough because without them college would be so beyond boring. They make me look forward to the end of the day where I can hang out with them. Thank you to my “T2” friends. Freshman year wouldn’t have been the same if I hadn’t met you.