It feels like just yesterday I was sitting at my kitchen table freaking out about starting college and now there’s only three weeks left in the semester. My first year of college is almost over and it’s bittersweet. Soon I’ll be sitting on the beach catching up with my friends from home. At the same time, I’ll miss staying up until 3 a.m. with my roommates talking about life. As the year comes to an end, I want to say thank you and good bye to my freshman year.
Saying goodbye to hours of homework and studying will not be hard. The anxiety and stress caused by those things will not be missed. It will be nice to not have to open the dreaded chemistry textbook. But thank you to all those late nights that taught me how to manage my time, and not leave everything for the last minute. Thank you to all my sleepless nights that taught me to value my naps whenever I can get them, or how to roll over and go back to sleep. Thank you to the people that were in my room until the early morning hours that taught me how to sleep through literally anything.
I’ll definitely miss being at school. Having to say goodbye to all of my friends and roommates is going to be extremely hard. However, having those people to come back to in August will make the beginning of sophomore year even more fun. It’s going to be a foreign concept to have to make plans to see people and not just be able to walk down the hall or downstairs.
Thank you to those people that made freshman year challenging. It taught me that not everyone is going to like me and that things aren’t always going to go my way. It prepared me for the real world more than I would like to admit.
The next few weeks are going to be extremely bittersweet. I’m going to miss coming “home” to my roommates and telling them about my day and all the crazy things that happened. I’ll miss our late night runs to get chicken nuggets. Thank you to my roommates for being there for me and listening to my nonsense all the time. Thank you for listening me complain about everything and for being there for me through thick and thin. Thank you to all my friends for helping me avoid all of my responsibilities but then sitting in library all night with me.
I’m ready for the semester to end so I can go home and spend time with my family. Being four hours away from home was sometimes harder than I thought it would be. I can’t wait to hear my friends from home college stories. But the spontaneous trips to Boston with my friends will be put on hold until we are back at school in the fall. Blasting music at all times will come to an end for the summer. Getting ready to go out without my roommates will feel weird. I’m not quite sure how I feel about saying goodbye to these things.
I’m ready to see where next year will take me. The thought of being a sophomore is exciting and terrifying at the same time. I know it will be a challenging year but so was freshman year and I know that I’ll be able to handle whatever life throws at me.
As much as I’m ready for freshman year to end so I can finally say hello summer, I’m really not ready to say goodbye to all the things that came along with freshman year.
