Ah, it's finally (and dreadfully) finals week. Somehow another semester has flown by and 4 months of bliss filled with beach days, barbecues, and tan lines await. What can be better than that? I can tell you what can't be better.

The realization that somehow, two years of my college career have flown by and I am now an upperclassman.

When I was in high school, those four years dragged by like no other. I couldn't WAIT to leave high school behind and discover the bigger and better things life had to offer. With the prospect of college in front of me, I wished my time away and was there faster than I would have thought.

Moving into college my freshman year was huge, I remember that day like it was yesterday. First time living on my own, first time i completely submerged myself into something completely unfamiliar, and the first time I had the confidence in myself to say "I can do this" and not actually freak out about it.

Just as i remember my first day moving into college, I remember the day I moved out freshman year. I couldn't believe that a year had flown by.

Soon enough the Summer had come and gone and sophomore year came around. I moved into a dorm that was significantly better than that of my freshman year dorm, and now its time to move out.

What. A. Year.

College is scary for many reasons:

1. You're somewhere new

2. You experience new things almost every day

3. Classes are much harder than you expect

4. You start out alone

5. IT GOES BY SO MUCH FASTER THAN YOU WANT IT TO

For once in my life, I am not wishing my time away. College has offered me so many things that made me who I am today. I've met my bridesmaids, my best friends, my sisters, and it's taught me that when the going gets tough, you toughen up and KEEP GOING.

College is so extremely valuable and while I still have two years left here, I know those years will fly by too. In 2 years I've come to grow more than I had ever grown in my 4 years of high school.

I am so excited to see what else awaits me in my last two years of college but please, college doesn't go too fast.