I was packing up my things in the bedroom that I lived in for 9 short months. Whilst taking the photos down from my wall, I realized just how fast college goes by. It felt like yesterday I was choosing which pictures to print and feeling anxious about starting at a new university.

You always hear people tell you how fast life goes, but when you're approaching your senior year of college, you start to really believe them. When you see students on campus in their caps and gowns, taking pictures before graduation, and think that in 12 short months, that will be you.

Leaving the apartment in which you spent endless amounts of time stressing about group projects, sleepovers with your best friends, and hungover mornings mustering up the strength to walk to your best friends apartment to laugh about the night prior.

This might just be me, but the whole year I'm so excited for summer, then spring semester is coming to a close and I don't want to leave school. I am constantly wishing and anticipating the future or events, that I forget to appreciate the present.

To think back on high school memories and realize you graduated three years ago. Insane. I'm not crying, you are.

As you get older, life just keeps getting faster.

Life becomes so routine, we sometimes forget how fast these prime times of our lives will go by. So, the next time you are feeling lazy and want to stay home, decide to go out with your friends. Decide to make memories with the people you love.

I'm about to say something so basic but bear with me. When you look back on your college days, you won't remember you stayed in and watched the same movie you've seen 100 times, you'll remember the nights you went out with your friends, drank too much, danced like an idiot, and laughed till your stomach hurt.

The realization that I'm beginning my senior year of college in 4 short months, is hitting. It is time to enjoy my twenties, my selfish years.