It's the most dreaded time of the semester, finals week, and everyone who you know is stressing out about it. It is the worst time of the entire semester. There are countless hours of studying, no sleep, and wishing that you had munch money to go get food, but you ran out two months ago. This is when everyone wants to go home. I am the polar opposite. I am cool as a cucumber.
The part that I am more overwhelmed by is saying goodbye to the many friends that I have come to make. At your high school graduation, you meet people and they all talk about how they never have to see each other again, but the truth is, college is where everyone starts to move on. In high school, you all live in the same area for the most part. I am losing so many of my friends to graduation.
One of my first friends that I had made in Albany will be graduating this weekend and I am absolutely heartbroken about it. He has contributed to my college experience so much. He actually lives near my area at home, all of ten minutes away, but knowing that he won't be here to sit and talk with me when I'm down or just to have a random little dance party sucks!
My perfect Big and Grand-Big are also graduating this weekend. We had our senior send-off for my fraternity a few weeks ago and I could not even handle looking at my Big. My lineage is something special. I have come into the perfect family, minus me losing my Big and my Grand-Big at the same time. They are truly amazing women who are both fab mathematicians! I know that we will always be intertwined, but, thankfully, they left me with my twin.
We are losing 44 seniors from the fraternity this semester, which is basically transitioning us into a new fraternity.
It's amazing, the people who you come across in your college career. I would have never expected to become friends with the people who I am currently friends with. We have three months apart and that is the worst part about leaving. I want to take my friends home with me because, while I am four hours away from home, they become my family. They are the people who I confide in and who developed such strong relationships with while my family was at home and living their life.
I continue to think about how I can beat out my sophomore year of college. It really was something spectacular. Next year, I will begin working predominately on my area of concentration as well as moving off of campus into a new apartment with some of my best friends. I will spend yet another year choreographing for my dance team and taking a little for my fraternity. These are the things that are to come in my future.
So, to my graduating seniors, I wish you nothing but luck in your future. I hope that you have luck in finding a career, hopefully in your desired area, as well in all of your future endeavors.
