It is very interesting how much can change within a year. This time last year I felt so lost in a cold dorm room surrounded by concrete walls with photos of my friends and I. It was finals week, just like it is now. It was cooler outside and more gloomy. Today, as I look out my window, it is sunny, I'm listening to cars go by and I can hear friends laughing and birds chirping.
This time last year, I could not wait to get out of my dorm room.
I could not wait to get out of my building. I couldn't wait to get away from the community bathrooms and 27 floors of all girls. Now, as I sit in my dorm room, I look at photos at all new friends and reminisce about all the things that have gone on throughout this year.
Summer of 2016, I spent the majority of the summer applying to different colleges after making the Dean's List and I got accepted to the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville. Five days before WKU began classes, I made the drive down to Bowling Green to meet with an advisor and I had to make a quick decision. I obviously made the decision to return to Western. I will never forget my first night back I tweeted and said, "The first night back and it is already better than my entire last semester."
Zacharias Hall became more than a dorm for me.
It has been my home for the last nine months. As I reflect on these nine months, it has been nothing short of a roller coaster, but there is not one thing I would change about it. I have made the best of friends here. I have watched some of them already move out and for the rest of us, we are waiting to complete our finals and in the mean time we are packing up our things.
To my friends I have made here, I love you all more than you will ever know.
You all have made me such a better person and I honestly could not imagine this year without you all. There are nights I know that we had to rely on one another to get homework done or just to deal with day to day life events. Thank you for the late night runs to get food or coming to my room at 2 a.m just to talk. I feel like there are very few people in this building that I do not know and have not fallen in love with. You all mean the world to me.
To my Sun Tan City girls, oh my goodness, I don't even know where to begin. I love each and every one of you for so many different reasons. You all have given me so much this semester. I really could not have made it through a lot of things without you all. You all have made me grow the most. I never knew when I was applying for jobs back in February that I would have friends that would last a lifetime out of it. You all seriously have no idea how much you mean to me.
Thank you for pushing me to be the best me I can be at work and outside of work. Thank you for being a friend and not just my co-workers. I cannot wait for August and ALL of you are making it extremely hard to leave.
Bowling Green, you are a city that I have completely fallen in love with.
You have given me a university that I cannot imagine going anywhere else. You have given me friends that I know will last a lifetime, no matter where life takes us.
WKU has made me grow.
Reflecting back on the girl that walked into the doors of PFT in January of 2016 to the girl that is leaving Zacharias Hall in Spring of 2017, I cannot believe how much has changed in my life. I have changed my degree three times, I have made countless friends, I think I could have a career in interior design (if you don't believe me, just ask the people at Kirkland's, I pretty much bought out the entire store).
So knowing this is going to be my last summer living in Louisville, I'm extremely excited to see what else WKU has in store for me. So, goodbye Sophomore year and goodbye Zacharias Hall 228! I can honestly say I will miss you so much. Until August...
Go Tops!
