My Ginger Best Friend,
Fall of 2014, we took ENV 240, and I remember awkwardly sitting between an obnoxious senior and you. I remember feeling incredibly nervous for classes, and you smiled right at me and starting rambling about something (as per usual). We instantly starting laughing, and before we knew it, we were hanging out all the time. As it turns out, I became friends with that obnoxious senior (sorry, Harrison, but you really did complain too much in that class), and later, I introduced him to you. You guys are now happily dating for more than a year now. Obviously, I'm the world's best matchmaker.
I think we initially bonded because we have the same first name, but then we became even closer when we both declared ourselves Environmental Studies majors. Now, we've taken four classes together, and it's depressing that we won't be in anymore together. Who am I going to sit next to in classes now? More importantly, who's going to help me with Excel?
Our professors call us "Alex squared" or "Alex one and Alex one," and your boyfriend calls his car the "Alexandra Express" because he is constantly driving us around everywhere. I've always liked that you're a year older, but now you're moving onto bigger and better things. I get to watch from the sidelines as I finish up my college years as well. I'm going to miss our midnight drives and early morning coffee runs. You're the older sister I've always wanted, worrying about me, giving me advice and even inviting yourself to third wheel when my boyfriend comes into G-town.
Thankfully, you and Harrison are working locally. Within a month, you bought a car, started paying rent and got hired at an incredible company an hour away. I couldn't be a prouder friend! You're teaching me how to be a grownup whether I like it or not. I hope you walk in for the first day on the job and remember how many people believe in you.
You are fiercely hardworking, insanely dependable and ridiculously funny. You laugh at (most of) my jokes, and together we are the weirdest people I know. You know exactly what you want, and you're not afraid to work for it, which is not something most people can say upon graduating. It feels like just yesterday we became friends. At the same time, it feels like we've known each other forever. Just because you're graduating, I know we won't fall out of each other's lives. I can't wait until we are older and wiser, and we can look back on how stressed we were in college and cringe with embarrassment. I hope we can join forces someday, end climate change and travel to Europe together to follow our Italian, yet pale, ancestral roots.
I know that the next phase of your life will be the best one yet! Don't forget about our crazy times, trying every local Italian restaurant, singing to "Blank Space," studying together (or at least trying to study together) at Flounge and watching "Criminal Minds" and "Law and Order" all day. Thank you for reminding me to have fun and not take life too seriously. Whether it's midnight drives around Geneva, following you around with errands, sitting in Professor's office hours for help, going to formals or all the other crazy adventures I let you convince me to go on with you, these are some of my favorite memories, and HWS will miss you .
In conclusion, congratulations on graduating, Alex. You deserve every ounce of success that's coming your way! Thanks for being my best friend these past two years. You should know that I'll always support with you and have your back!
Love,
Your Brunette Best Friend
