I have done a couple of reflection pieces to wrap up this year. For this article, however, I'm going to look forward. It is easy to look back at the past and see how everything was. But, looking to the future is a bit harder. There is really no way to tell what's going to happen. However, I'm going to attempt to at least speculate as to what might happen, in a sense.

Next semester will be my last semester of my undergraduate career. I'm graduating a year early, and sometimes I have no clue why. I guess the easiest reason is that I will be done with all my credits by next semester, so why wait? The thought of graduating absolutely terrifies me. Am I jumping the gun? Should I have added another major or minor? But more terrifying is that I have no clue what I'm doing after. I'm currently applying to graduate programs, but there is no guarantee that I will even get in.

But I suppose that is going too far ahead. Graduate school wouldn't begin until September, which is a good 9 months away.

Focusing on my next, and last semester, alone, I have no idea what even that will hold. I know the classes I'm taking, and I know the professors I'm taking these classes with. But anything can happen. I could blow my GPA. I could get caught up in some weird dishonesty/cheating scandal. In the other direction, I might have more opportunities available to me than I originally expected, much like how this past fall semester went. I might meet and befriend people I never would have guessed I'd know.

The point is, I don't know what life is going to throw my way. If 2016 has taught me anything, it's that life can be rough and unbearable. While I'm hoping 2017 (and my last semester of my undergraduate career) is a little more tolerable for me, I know that things might not go my way. And, surprisingly enough, I'm okay with it. Because if I made it through everything in my life so far, then I know that I can make it through this last semester and whatever else life throws my way.