Dearest Mom and Dad,

For the past 20 years, we have fought, I have lied and we have been frenemies. However, recently, I have grown to really appreciate your tough love. Up until college, everything came easy to me, whether it be grades, making friends or life in general. I was never really given anything too impossible to overcome.

These past two years, though, I have struggled more, studied harder and learned the most I ever have. I have you to thank for most of those accomplishments.

If it weren't for you, I would have no one to complain to, no one to cry to and no one to take my anxiety out on. I have yelled, I have screamed and I have taken your unconditional love for granted. You have been there through it all.

You send me awesome care packages full of the essentials (snacks, snacks and more snacks).

You're constantly restocking my bank account.

You listen to my melodramatic, never-ending rants.

Thank you for telling me how it is when my friends are too scared. You never have reservations when you feel like I cross the fine line between average college student and 2008 Britney.

You are both angels in disguise, and I truly appreciate all you've done for me. (Yes, even when you nag me about getting an internship).

I am incredibly grateful for everything, but most of all, I am thankful for your love, support and tuition money. Without those, I would be nowhere, and I do my best to make you both proud and certain you made the right decision by sending me off to school alone.

I love you both beyond these words.

With the utmost gratitude and respect,

Your daughter