There’s no doubt we’ve all been
prolonging this horrid goodbye since we first arrived back in the fall. I refused to believe this day would come in a
literal blink of an eye. As I wander
from room to room, where we’ve spent endless hours laughing, smiling,
screaming, crying, and talking about the quote on quote “weirdest” things you
could imagine, the walls are now blank and those rooms are now empty. It truly breaks my heart knowing this is the
era in our lives that we will always look back on and confidently say: that was
the best year of my life.
Living on a floor with 42 girls,
you can imagine there’s never a dull moment.
I don’t know which part of it I will miss the most, but I will unquestionably
miss each and every waking moment. A
classic Monday night at 7 pm where we all congregate in the designated room to
avoid doing whatever work we might have on our shoulders… a Thursday or Friday
at 6 pm when we all assemble for our routine nap, and 2 hours later when the
speakers start blaring, we all run in and out of rooms half dressed trying to
put together an outfit… any week night at 12 am deciding it’s a great idea to
go to Denny’s for a late night breakfast… a football Saturday in Happy Valley waking up
to get decked out in Penn State attire to “tailgate with best”…. or a beautiful
Saturday spring morning waking up to friends gallivanting the floor yelling
“let’s play” and soon after frolicking through frat land with not worry in the
world. How about spending a week in Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico with a few of our closest friends? It aches me to say that all of this is now in
the past...
What can I say, the semesters are
too short, and the summers are too long.
Looking back on everything this year, there’s not a thing I would
tweak. It is the most cliché saying of
them all, but honestly it couldn’t hold more truth: “Don’t cry because it’s
over, smile because it happened”, and I do indeed smile everyday because of these
wonderful people in my life. The moments
I’ve spent with my sisters in this little bubble we call State College, I will
remember for the rest of my life. These
girls have my heart, and they define true friendships. Each crazy in our own way, making us the most
unique group of girls.
I could not be more grateful to be
able to have the true college experience, in the happiest place on earth. When they say college is the best four years
of your life, they seem to forget to mention that they are the absolute fastest four years. To stop and think, four years ago from now, I
had no idea I would be blessed with the greatest group of girls, in the
greatest place in the world. Everything
has fallen into place in the most perfect way.
I love this place, and I cherish these friendships and these years of pure happiness, more than anything.
…
RIP, we killed sophomore year.
