They all say that saying goodbye to your high school friends after you walk the stage with them one last time is one of the hardest things you will have to do in your life. “High school is a part of some of the best days of your life.” This is all true, but only to certain extent. This is because every graduated senior is scared for the new (including the awkward) encounters and ways to meet friends that are soon to happen at their new job or new school.

Once you get past the whole meeting new people and taking new classes thing, many would say that college is the main highlight of their lives. Especially when you start to get closer to the end, no one wants to leave. Summer vacations seem to become longer, semesters seem to become shorter and the time you have left with your friends, who have basically become your family, seems minuscule.

Coming from someone who is halfway done with college, it is bittersweet. I am finally comfortable with where I am in my life and do not want that comfortable feeling to change. The first two years went by so fast. Now we only have two years left or for some, even less. These two years are going to go by faster than the first did. The daunting time of when we all have to start figuring out what we are going to do for the rest of our lives is closer than we think.

Living in a house with our friends, taking harder classes and cherishing these last two years together is something I look forward to. But when it all becomes a memory is when reality sets in. We are soon going to be those once high school, but now college seniors that are going to have to figure everything new out again. We are finally the adults we all wanted to be when we were little, yet most of us really do not want to be them anymore.