The end is hard.

For seniors, it feels like everything is coming to an end. The last class registration (#blessed), the last first day of school, the last recruitment, the last everything.

And it is the end. Nothing is going to be the same after this year. You're going to be moving on to bigger and better things, (although your college days will always stay with you). You have to learn how to adult (what) and turn into big kids, with big kid jobs.

But it's also a time to reflect on how you've grown as individuals. Looking back on your very first day of college, when you didn't know what to expect and were nervous to start classes, only hoping that you didn't get lost and look like a typical freshman.

Look back on how you didn't know what you wanted to do with your life, and now you're going out into the world, maybe still unsure, but you're trying, and that's what counts.

Remember meeting your very first roommate and wondering what it was like to live with another person. Now you're living (almost) on your own, in an apartment with friends, knowing how to live with another person who isn't family.

Throughout the past three, four, or maybe five years, you've grown into young adults. I know, when you were thirteen, you knew what you were doing because you were "practically an adult." Now, you have a little more wisdom than you did when you were 13, and have a little bit of a better idea of what you're gonna do when you grow up. (No, being a princess isn't an option anymore.)

You've learned how to make friends, how to take more shots of vodka than we should, how to study, and how to be a better person.

It's easy to look at the end as a sad thing, and it's okay to be sad - a large part of your life is ending. But at this time, it's important to look back on how you've changed, and how you've grown.

Maybe for better or for worse, but you've changed, and you've grown. Now, it's time for you to go out into the "real" world, and prove yourself.

Well think about it, didn't you think this same thing when you graduated high school? And look at all the great things that have happened since then.