To my graduating seniors,
I cannot explain to you all how much I wish I had all four (or more) years back with y’all. In high school it was a little sad when the class before me graduated, but I was not extremely close to any of them and to be honest, the thought of them leaving did not break my heart. This is partly because I was not very close to them, but mainly because college is college. Many people come back home during the summer or at least at Christmas time. It’s a different life change now. Even though this has been your home for the last four years, this is not where you will come back to during the holidays. This is a place where you have made some of your best memories and will remember them as you continue with your lives.
Seniors of ’16, I cannot explain my love for you all. Why could we not have been as close as we are now, before this semester, before this year? I want to go back in time to get to know you better, get to know how amazing you truly are and how good of a friend you are. I did not know that friendships could start this easily and grow so fast. This is a whole new feeling that I have never experienced. Yeah, we can stay in touch. But this doesn’t replace the feeling of having you right there with me. Everyone is heading in different directions and down many paths. I only hope that those paths include me in some way. Don’t leave our friendship in your memories, take it with you.
Seniors, I am going to feel empty without you next semester. With many annoying individuals (you know who they are) walking around, it was such a relief to be able to see your faces and become instantly happy. You are whom I relied on to make my school days better; I have never had so much fun in a classroom or in a department building. I thank you for being the sunshine on my cloudy days and reminding me that you don’t have to be 100 percent ready to make it to the “real world.”
I love all of our memories and will cherish them forever. We have been a family and I am so lucky that I have been apart of your lives. Thank you for looking out for me like a little sister; thank you for helping me plan my class schedule; thank you being there for me when I stressed out too much and thank you for being some of my best friends. I want to thank you all for letting me, an underage baby, hang out with the cool upperclassmen. You have been in my favorite memories and you are about to be my hardest goodbye.
Please remember me, but also not have the choice to forget, or even have the opportunity to let us get out of touch. I know that life happens and people get busy, but I ask that you keep me in mind. I am missing you already and you have not even graduated yet. All of our lives are going to change in less than a week and I wanted to let you all know how much I genuinely care for you before you progress in your amazing and successful lives I know you all will have. Thank you for accepting me for who I am and thank you for showing up in my life. I will never forget you seniors, you know who you are. Even though I am not ready for you all to go, good luck my darlings. You are going to shine.
Thanks for the memories…with love,
Your Underclassman
