Finally, you are one of the big bad seniors of the school: you are the loudest at pep rallies, the most rebellious, and the leader in your clubs, plays/musicals, and/or sport teams. SATs and your college essay are the two most important things guiding your future. Slowly, football season comes to a close, your applications are sent, and the sea of seniors in the hallways are decked out in the sweatshirt, T-shirt, or sweatpants of their top choice school.

Going away to college turns into the only thing on your mind that last three months (maybe even more) of high school. You've been with those same people for the last four to seven years, or if you're from a small town like me, 10 whole years. You are ready for the next big thing: new friends, new experiences, new places, a chance to be a new you.

Senior year of college is much different. You are ready for something new, but don't really want to leave. You won't live with your best friends and see all the people you have come to recognize through all the late nights doing a project that you should have started a month ago, crazy Thursdays at the bars, the struggle of being hung-over in your early morning Friday class, and never judging you for going for seconds or thirds the night of chicken finger and mac and cheese dinner. How are you expected to leave?

Remember when you were afraid of how you would do with sharing a room? Well now who is going to answer all my random and pointless, but also intriguing questions?

1. Can you like my Instagram?

2. Is this a dumb caption?

3. Is he cute?

4. Can I borrow...?

5. Filter or no filter?

6. Can you be brutally honest with me for a minute...?

7. Does this look okay?

8. Are you hungry?

College brings you tons of new information, chances to travel the world, a daily social event, and hundreds of those amazing "free" T-shirts. The weekends are filled with constant excitement of sleep, foods that should never list the calories, adventures with friends, and most likely a great deal of booze.

You suddenly are looking at job openings, perfecting that last detail of your resume, ordering business cards, learning about what benefits to look for, where you plan to live, and slowly realizing that these last four years, when you were calling yourself an adult, you had no idea what you were talking about.

Suddenly, you start feeling like you need to "adult" everything and maybe wearing your slippers and last night's makeup out in public isn't the best way to do so. Instead of worrying about how cute you look in your Facebook profile picture and cover photo, your LinkedIn headshot is now top priority. The answer, "I can't, I'm poor" becomes your top excuse when you don't or "just can't" go out. The price tag of these crazy adventurous four years creeps into your mind, and living with your parents for a little instead of the going straight to that apartment in the city sounds better and better.

High school was cool and all, but most everyone was ready to leave. College is a whole different level. College is the epiphany of "let's make these nights last forever." The best part about the future out of college is now you don't have just those short four years until you hit your last senior year. The next books ahead are longer than four chapters. Now it's time to for you to start building a life.

So cheers to the last time being a senior (unless you're want of those smart kids who needs to stay an extra semester or are headed to grad school), it's been a fabulous four years.