Living the life of a college senior can be filled with nostalgia as you look back on the previous years. Everything was completely different when you arrived on campus four years ago with the bright ambitions of a freshman. The campus was a clean slate to your life and the students had no idea who you were as a person. Anything could be accomplished with the new territory and unknown city to explore when the time was right.

There were people coming into your life so incredibly fast, that it was unimaginable. Phone numbers were handed out like pamphlets at the university career fair! Sometimes, you could not put a name to a number and remember just who gave it to you in the first place. This was the beginning of your adult life and the power to control it was in your hands.

Unfortunately, as each day progressed, there was a hole growing within the heart that never seemed to heal. Everyone around you was not the same friends you were comfortable with back at home. After a while, these people appeared to be just a face that you would wave to each time eye contact was made on the university strip. Where were your true friends within all of this chaos we called “freshman year”?

The real test that year was finding the special niche that accepted you no matter what. There were so many options available ranging from roommates all the way to new coworkers. Out of all the options, which one was the best pathway to take? One of the hardest moments of being a first-year student was the ability to choose who you associated yourself with. The fear of making the wrong decision was suffocating because you did not want to regret your life choices later down the college road.

In reality, looking back at the early years, there really was not much to worry about at all. Freshman year was the time to sprout wings and fly with all of the new opportunities available. It really is unfortunate that we are unable to get some of those fresh moments back. As a senior, you can now see all of the moments that were passed up because you simply did not know about them, or Netflix was calling your name every night. Think about all of the stupid things that were done during that chaotic year that left no repercussions. In some cases, you should be lucky that you are still alive from the wild antics that took place each and every night.

While all of this took place, you simply wanted the right group of people to have your back no matter what. Finding those people were hard enough because everyone had a completely different agenda for their time in university. In the end, did you find that niche of friends that fully accept you?