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15 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Senior Year

Do I have to graduate?

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15 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Senior Year
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Only months away for that day every college kid dreams about, graduation. Or have we really been waiting for this moment?

Sitting in calc class or o-chem thinking “I can’t wait to be done with college and work”, think again. Here are some thoughts I wish I knew before starting my Senior year.

1. You don’t need to be engaged or have met the love of your life. Not everyone meets their soul mate in college, be patient. Someone out there will love you for who you are.

2. Go out even on Wednesdays(dollahs), meet people and have fun. The best people you will meet in your life are in your college years. DANCE your heart away. Maybe you didn't meet your SO but you did met your life long best friends.

3. You don't need to have everything figured out. Not everyone has everything set out, on what they want to do and where they want to end up living. Yes, it will be ideal, but don't stress out when your aunt asks what your plans are. Calm down.

4. Eat all the free food on campus and enjoy those greasy free slices. Is Senior 15 a thing?

5. You wanted to join a club? Go join DubH and danc or anything you've been wanting to do, this is the time to do it.

6. Take pictures of everything. It is as close as you can get to all the memories you live in senior year.

7. You are probably in your alcoholic peak. We have all developed a liver for it and it reaches the top during senior year. Drink responsibly, have fun but enjoy this. Hangovers will be worse after this year.

8. Watch all the long movies and enjoy those 10 season shows. You won't have time for that later with all the 12 hour work shifts or graduate school studying.

9. Focus on your future and yourself. No one will ever know you better than yourself, think about what you want and not what others want.

10. Visit halls on campus you have never gone in. Meet people from other departments, be open-minded.

11. Sit down and meet strangers.

12. Study abroad, it will change your life. I wish I had studied abroad for more time instead of just a summer.

13. It's okay to be anxious about graduation, everyone is in the same spot. Happy to be graduating, but actually really sad to leave a place that became their home.

14. Go to college events you have never been. Go to that basketball game with your school logo and scream your lungs off, you won't regret it.

15. Say thank you to your advisors, bosses and favorite professors, they will appreciate it.

Thinking of graduation makes me think I have only few months left in this campus that saw me grow. I promise myself I will enjoy these last months as I keep bleeding cardinal & gold. Thank you ISU for the best four years of my life.

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