The End of an Era.

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.