A Day in the Life

It's week 3 and I'm back into the swing of things. My first test and paper of the semester is coming up this week and I think it should be pretty easy. I care about how well I do here at school, especially considering this is my last year, but to be honest, I really care about my relationships with other people too. In the past almost four years I've grown to know a lot of people really well and every year some of them leave UNC. In a sense, I'm one of the next to soon leave the student world here. I'm sure I'm going to continue to be in close contact with a lot of the people I know from here now, but I don't know how different it'll be not being a student next year and being married. Both Allie and I are hoping to have a lot of time with friends, but with the more responsibility that comes with work and marriage it won't be exactly the same I'm sure. Don't get me wrong, I'm so excited for the next step in our life and I'm still really looking forward to it. It's interesting to think about all the things that we'll be responsible for after college. It's almost a shift in responsibility from classes to responsibility in everyday life. I have no doubt that there are plenty of things that I'm just going to have to experience in this next stage of life. There is no way I can prepare myself for those things. I know that my character is going to grow because of this. A reassuring thought is that that's kind of what starting college was like. If you told me four years ago all the things that I'd do in college I probably wouldn't believe you. Individually, college really shapes you into who you are. It's great because you learn so much about yourself and who you want to be and who you want to be around. Everyone could try to tell you what college life is like, but like I've said before, it's different for everyone. If there was one assured constant for everyone, it would probably be this: Nobody comes out of college exactly the same as they were before they went in. So I could tell you to "get ready for it", but you can't be. It's nothing to be scared of, but it's something that you have to experience to understand. I hope you're excited for that because you should be.