It's move-in day of freshman year, and you're anxiously arranging and re-arranging everything in your room until you think you finally have it how you want it. Getting to know your roommate, your freshman hall, telling your parents goodbye, living on your own, it's all part of the deal. Wow, four years here. That's a long time. But in reality, it's not a long time at all. As far as I'm concerned, move-in day, saying goodbye to parents, all of that just happened a couple days ago. So how am I already going to be a senior? I'm not sure if it's the fact that I've gotten a glimpse at the real world and what my life holds after college, or the fact that I'm incredibly sentimental about only being surrounded by all my best friends for one more year, but I have learned one thing: I took my first three years of college for granted, and now I don't want to leave. My advice to anyone just embarking on the years of mistakes, tears, laughter and friendship that is sometimes called college: Live, really live every single moment of every single day. You will never find another time in your life like college. Enjoy it.

Some things I've learned about college:

You can eat Mexican food every night.

Doesn't that sound fantastic? You can even order two bowls of queso if you want. Two.

You can gain weight.

It's acceptable here; everyone does it. If you don't, you're not doing college right.

You don't have a dress code.

If you feel like wearing yoga pants every single minute of every day, even to class, you can.

You can skip a workout.

Nobody will judge you. And if they do, hangout with different people.

Studying for tests is better than worrying about paying the bills.

You can fail a test and it's OK, but you can't fail to pay bills.

You can eat only ice cream for four days, and nobody will tell on you.

Everybody needs days like this.

You can eat lunch with your best friends every day. And dinner. And late night.

One of my favorite things about college.

You can have a disco ball, and it will be normal.

Maybe this isn't considered normal in college, but I'm still trying to convince myself that it is.

You can drive around campus with all windows down and scream One Direction.

Well I guess you can do this anywhere, but it's just more fun on campus.

You can make mistakes.

Everyone does it.

You can make the best friends of your entire life.

I know I have.

I definitely didn't realize I was doing it, but I was. I was taking college for granted. Sure, having homework is annoying and studying for a test on a weekend is a total drag. But I would have to say that I'll take that right now over owning a house and having the roof fall in during a storm and then everything in your house is wet and you have to get a new roof. I mean, really, that sounds horrible. I think I'd rather sit back and have a mimosa. I have learned more about myself these past three years than I ever thought possible. You will experience terrible times that you feel you might never get past, and you will experience incredible times that you want to freeze and live in forever. You will make terrible mistakes that you wish you could forget, but you'll always have friends telling you it's not a big deal (even when it is a huge deal). You can make all your own decisions and live with the consequences, good or bad. Theme parties, tailgates, all-nighters, midnight drives, stupid dancing, you just can't beat it. Don't wish your college years away because one day you'll want them back. One day you'll sit back and say, "Wow, I want to go back." Or in my case, "Wow, this is all going to be over soon." Don't take it for granted, any of it.