Dear Myself,

Remember how a week before going back, you hoped to:

1. Be mentally prepared to wake up a decent hour everyday (barring weekends) for a couple months. (Nope)

2. Be packed and prepared (or at least start) to move back. (Nope)

3. Be mentally prepared for a lower quality of food (quality: edible) since you're cooking. (Nope)

4. Practice cooking and gathering recipes. (Definitely nope)

5. Get out of the summer attitude, back to school attitude. (They're almost the same, so nope)

6. Get into routinely exercising. (Oh no nope)

Now on the day before flying back, you think now that:

7. You have a roommate that can wake you up, or at least your alarm wakes her up and then she wakes you up to turn it off. (check)

8. You're good at last-minute packing (been doing it for years). (check)

9. Lower quality of food = smaller intake of food (plus, it's still edible). (check)

10. You can practice cooking there (cross fingers that you don't cook (burn) down the apartment in your attempts). (check)

11. Use aforementioned roommate to goad you into working (such lovely roommates). (check)

12. Exercise (again, use roommate for motivation). (not guaranteed)

Other last thoughts?

I'm praying for:

13. Patience for the people dealing with me (e.g., my poor roommates mentioned above)

14. Peace and the ability to keep my priorities straight. (to be able to balance my academic life and spiritual life properly)

15. NO PROCRASTINATING. (Meh. Not gonna happen.)

All in all, I wish myself (and all other students) a good year, and smooth sailing.

Sincerely,

Myself