It’s a weird feeling for sure. The weeks leading up to summer. There’s the insane stress of studying for finals. There are the seniors, getting ready to graduate. There’s the internships you’re still waiting to hear back from, the freedom that’s just out of grasp for a few more weeks. The thought of home, your dog, and watching Netflix without feeling guilty. But then there’s also sadness. Sadness about leaving friends and your dorm room that you finally got set up the way you like. There’s packing up an entire year of your life away, into boxes, so many boxes. There’re so many lasts. The last time at the dining hall, the last final, the last walk to class. There's the long process of taking down pictures (the ones you painstakingly put up at the beginning of the year) off the walls of your dorm room. There’s saying goodbye 28 different times when each of your friends leave at a different time.

Every time summer comes around I am so ready for the break from school, but then again, every time summer rolls around, I’m one summer closer to never having a summer again. People two years older than me, who I ate with in the cafeteria and saw at parties, are getting real people jobs and moving away; it's a reminder that the real world is waiting beyond the classrooms and athletic fields. At this point in our lives, the weeks before summer arrives are confusing. I’m not sure how we are supposed to be feeling. Happy to finish exams? Sad to leave our friends? Happy to see our family and pets again? Scared at how fast time is moving? It feels like yesterday that I started my freshman year of college and next week, I will be finishing my second. It’s scary how fast time is going and how quickly college is going to be over. In two years I won’t be able to retweet college humor accounts or need to carry any sort of ID with me besides my license. My world will be so much bigger than a campus. The weeks leading into summer are a frenzy of emotions and stress. But they are also some of the best. College is a weird time. But all we can do is hold on, experience the ride and make the best of every single “last”.