"I wish I'd done...in college." This is the kind of thing I've been seeing a lot lately, people who are going into their senior year of college or looking back and reminiscing about when they were in college and thinking Man, I wish I had done those things I wanted to do but was too scared to.

Seeing this type of article makes me think, as an incoming freshman, how do I want to spend my college career? Yes, I know I'm going to spend a lot of time studying but I don't want that to be all I do. I want to have a life. I don't want to be looking back in four years and "should-ing" all over myself. Carrie Bradshaw (my writing inspiration when I get stuck) once talked about "should-ing." People live life and then look back with regrets saying "I should've done this or that" but why? Why are we "should-ing" all over ourselves?

It's not a requirement you know? This whole regrets thing I mean. We aren't required to live life almost to the fullest and then, later on, regret not living to the fullest for real. If you think about it, college is a blank white sheet of paper. We go into it with nothing but white space. It is our assignment during our four years there to fill that white space with our own color and designs. Then at the end of our college journey, we can look back on that sheet of paper that is no longer white. If you didn't do all the things you wanted to in college then there will be some blank, still-white spaces. Those spaces are what will cause us to "should."

I don't want to be one of those people who looks onto my sheet of paper in four years and has to see a bunch of white space because I didn't really live. Now I'm not saying go crazy by any means. But have fun and learn how to be you. Don't get drunk all the time and miss class because you're hungover. But at the same time, don't not go to the party. Go! By all means, go! But maybe don't drink.

It is my goal in my four years at Converse College to have fun and learn more about myself. I don't drink and I won't drink. I don't sleep around and I won't sleep around. But I'm not going to sit alone in my dorm room for four years. Get involved, make friends and make memories. Everyone says these are some of the best years of our lives so why waste them? Why be one of those people who are "should-ing" after college?

Class of 2020, let's be different than everyone else. Let's really live and not have to look back and "should" all ourselves because we have regrets. What'd ya say? Who wants to live a little?

Or if you want, I guess you can be a "should-er" but I sure won't be.