It's bittersweet as my freshman year of college comes to an end. Freshman year was a roller coaster ride. We anxiously waited until it was our turn to move it, once it started we felt all sorts of excitement. We had ups, and downs, and so many things that threw us for a loop. But now that it's over, it seemed like it was just yesterday that we were waiting to start!
Now that our freshmen year is coming to an end I'm not sure how to feel. It's going to be awesome to be back home with my friends and family, yet strangely weird being away from the family I have made here.
College was new, fun and exciting. The first few weeks were a blur, as you were set free from rules, and had to follow your own. You realized everything you wanted to accomplish relied on yourself. You soon began realizing how much homemade meals were missed, and what a different life we were living. Not much was the same from what we've known our whole life.
Freshman year was all about finding your place, your people, and becoming who you wanted to be. College is amazing that way, you can come in with no stereotypes, labels, or judgments. You become friends with those people who seem to understand you the most. Once you have met these people, you will realize why they say you meet your lifelong friends in college, because it's true.These people become your support system, your go to people, your cheerleaders, your parents and your right hand.
It's so weird that I will no longer be eating every meal with the friends that I have become so grateful and thankful for. Whether they know it or not, they got me through one of the hardest, and best years of my life. If I didn't have them, and their friendships, I'm not sure I would have made it.
It's going to be oddly strange not being able to walk into your friend's dorm, or walk to meet up with them in less than five minutes. The things we've come accustomed to, like meeting up at the gym, or taking a trip to the lake after class on the beautiful days, will be put on halt until next semester. It'll be so different not spending every minute of every day with them for months on end.
Wrapping up the Spring Semester has been nothing but stressful, with finals and the last big tests in each class, I feel like I haven't stopped to realize what really is happening. That last day of finals I am moving out of the 10x16 square that I called home for over 200 days. I am saying goodbye to my roommate that has become my best friend. I am saying bye to the girls that I was blessed to meet. I am officially now classified as a sophomore and one year closer to my goal. How did this all happen so fast?
Freshman year was a new adventure, and I can't wait to see what sophomore year has in store for us.
