It's Senior Year. Second semester of Senior Year, and just the beginning of a really amazing end. You're dreading this semester, even though it'll be great. College applications are tedious, scholarship applications seem so far away, and your own little bubble you've protected in high school is so huge and beautiful, just like all bubbles seem before every pop.

Questions your family members and close friends keep repeating are along all subjects consisting of your GPA, school selection, what your major is, and 'are you sure?'. Yes, I am sure. Why wouldn't I be? Plus it's so far away. Graduation, prom, finals. Oh, God. Finals.

You're going to be so blind. You don't have any idea of what is ahead of you or the problems you might face. It's going to scare you and that's okay.

Let's set one thing straight in this letter. College, like, that thing you aren't thinking about right now because it's so far away, isn't that far away. Do you want to know what college is like?

Yeah, I didn't either. I sleep, study, eat, go to class, study, cry, eat, and then sleep. Repeat that for every day of the semester. I stay up until 2 in the morning studying and wake up at 7 in the morning for class. I run on coffee and french fries. The library is not a stranger anymore, and classes seem like the hardest times to get through. That, dear ones, is college. Plus those thousands of dollars you've wasted on eating out and going to the mall will be instantly mourned once you look at your student account. Trust me.This is coming from a second-semester college Freshman. I wish I could be back in your shoes every day.

Please don't throw your last days in high school away.

Get ready for prom with your friends, go to all the parties you can. Take many, many pictures. Do as much as you can this semester. Spend as much time as possible being happy. Do not let drama get in the way of one of the greatest times of your life.

Also, be prepared for what the future brings. Please don't wait until the last minute to look at where you'll be spending the next 4 years of your life. Some people go to school totally shocked. They didn't know it would be hard, or how stressful life can be there. It's hard to be somewhere that's not actually home. There's a world outside your tiny, enclosed bubble. Once you get to college that bubble pops.

Meeting and living with new people, taking harder classes, studying your life away, and having to interact with a different face everyday is not something people the about when they think of going to college. Most people think about joining a fraternity, or being on a team. Studying abroad? Heck yeah. Decorating my dorm room? I'm ready. But the tiniest things will hurt you.

I have something else to share with you guys, too. College is literally the greatest experience I've ever had. It's a place to find your voice, to learn and be on your own, to understand the importance of food and water, to learn how to be your own person, and to develop who you really are. The social life is amazing, the academics fit who you are within your interests, and most importantly the part about finding who you are.

Yep, college is pretty great. Please, though, don't take the rest of your free lives for granted. Make the most of everything you have now. Do everything you possibly can to preserve everything that comes your way. Don't have any regrets when you walk up to that stage when they say your name into the microphone.

Leave blissfully satisfied and fulfilled. Don't leave feeling you have any regrets. Good luck, everyone.