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35 Things To Thank Marist College For

It's been the greatest, wildest ride.

Kristen Dalli
Jan 15, 2017
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35 Things To Thank Marist College For
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Spring semester is mere days away and I have never felt more anxious/nervous/somewhat devastated to go back to Poughkeepsie.

Typically, I count the months/weeks/days/minutes/seconds until I'm back in my favorite place with my favorite people, but this semester is unlike the seven that came before it. It's been the fastest, and greatest, four years of my young life so far, and I wouldn't trade them for the world.

From studying abroad in Florence, to watching countless sunsets on the Hudson, the thought of saying goodbye to Marist sends me into a full blown panic attack, accompanied by uncontrollable sobbing. Because I'm nowhere near emotionally okay with having to leave it all behind at the end of May, I thought I'd write a list of thank-you's to the place that became my home almost instantly.

SEE ALSO: A Letter To The Marist Class Of 2017

Thank you, Marist...

1. For introducing me to the greatest people I now can't live without

2. For the free laundry

3. For the free printing

4. For $1 chicken nuggets in the cab

5. For all the sunsets

6. For all the Instagrams of all the sunsets

7. For making every room/house I've lived in feel like home

8. For the seemingly never-ending amount of Thrifty Cash

9. For starting our friendships with nearly every local cab driver

10. For letting us live the Hunger Games every semester during registration

11. And again during housing

12. For Cupcake Tuesday

13. For John Gildard's snow day emails (#neverforget)

14. For teaching us how to swipe in at all hours of the day/all levels of inebriation

15. For the hours spent on Marist Beach

16. For P-Ridge (RIP), Campus Deli, and Giacomo's

17. For Darby's, Union, and Mahoney's (FINALLY!!!)

18. For Backstreet, then and now

19. For the daily parking lot fights

20. And the subsequent never-ending stream of parking tickets

21. For sledding down the hill in front of the library

22. For Suzanne in the Hancock Cafe

23. For finally finishing the Rotunda

24. For all the tailgates/parties/day drinks that always end too soon


SEE ALSO: The Marist College Dictionary


25. For the Christmas Tree

26. For the $25 Broadway tickets and $5 movie tickets

27. For encouraging us to study abroad

28. For the best classes with the best teachers

29. For the hours and hours spent sitting on the dock

30. For the Hudson

31. For giving me another place to call home

32. For letting us all learn, grow, and make more mistakes than we ever thought possible

33. For teaching us how to live well with others

34. For the anxiety attack that always occurs when looking at the graduation countdown in Donnelly AND Dyson

35. For the memories.

They were more than great.

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