Life is one crazy ride, my friend or reader. Whatever you want to be referred to as, I don’t really care.

I feel like I just started the semester two minutes ago, and here I am writing this as I take a break for my finals. I was just moving in all of my stuff to my new dorm and going out to dinner with all of my friends that I barely got to see all summer due to distance restraints.

I remember the past so vividly as it was so close that I could almost be back in that exact moment, but feel as if I slowly grow every day. I think for the most part that is the goal for all of us: to grow a little each day, because in a year, your life will be different from how it is now.

One year ago, I remember being on break and not really caring to go back to school as everyone so claimed that they “literally could not wait” to do so. I dealt with school at that time, having some fun moments, but not truly believing that these were going to be the so-called "best years of my life."

I think part of the reason why is that everyone puts so much emphasis on having a great time that you feel as if when not every moment here is life-changing, you are somehow missing out. If you feel that way just remember that many people are just faking it until they make it.

I was not the happiest camper at this time last year for many reasons. I didn’t feel like I found that solid group of “forever friends” that people magically meet within the first few days at a completely foreign place. My school still felt like an unfamiliar place unlike the home that I spent my whole life up until that point in.

I didn’t feel like Fairfield was my home yet, and even though I was sad about it, I just accepted it.

However, I continued to see the positive aspects of my life and just hoped that college would become better. Little did I know that the second semester of my freshman year would be one of best times of my life to date.

My friend group fell into place, and whilst all becoming super close, school became more familiar, and I just had a super positive outlook. There is no one thing that made my spring semester so great, but just a combination of everything. I can still look at some of my Snapchat memories from random nights of that semester and laugh uncontrollably thinking about everything that happened.

The point is that if life is not the best, it will get better. Also, if life is good right now, you should cherish every moment of it.

I wish you the best of luck!