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A Letter To The Class Of 2017

Let's do this.

Chelsey Withers
Aug 31, 2016
Waynesburg University
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A Letter To The Class Of 2017
Waynesburg Universty

To my fellow seniors,

Where has the time gone. To me it feels like yesterday that it was August 2013 and we were moving into our freshman dorms. We were all the new kids excited and nervous about the next four years of our lives and beginning to live in the new place we call home. Now here we are sitting here freaking out about what we are going to do next with our lives.

When we started off we thought we knew exactly what we would want to do with our lives after college, but were looking for that clarification. Now here were are as seniors still looking for that clarification. We thought we already had our friends for life because they were the ones who have known us since we were in Kindergarten and now we have new life long friends we met here and it feels as if those friends have known you for your entire life.

We look forward to enjoying the last year of "freedom." The last times we can use the excuse, "I am just a college kid," "I am in college sorry I am broke" and "Yeah its going to be another all nighter." Those excuses and little things will end up being some things we miss. We look forward to making this the best year possible because this place and these friends have helped you realize and define who you are as a person. This is an incredible journey and one so hard to walk away from.

As we look at each other and smile as we say hello. Or as we tell stories and reminisces about the last four years together, I can't help but smile. Smile at the memories. Smile at the incredible people that were brought into my life. Smile at the memories I still have to come.

So to the freshman we look at and laugh at. We are not laughing at you, we are laughing at ourselves. These four years go by faster than anyone would expect. Enjoy every second because before you know it you will be the ones reminiscing and laughing at underclassman.

So to the class of 2017 lets do this. Lets have the time of our lives and be those college kids one last time. To my classmates thanks for teaching me arbout life and what a true friendship is all about.


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