By the time you've reached your final year of college, there is no doubt that you have been through quite a lot; the hours upon hours of homework, all of the tests, quizzes, meetings, and all of those classes that you never thought you would get through--well, after conquering such daunting feats, there are few things that you simply know to be true:

1. It doesn't get any easier.

People might think that by the time you have reached your senior year that you must have everything figured out. Well, for those of us in that position, that can't be farther from the truth. Yes, by the time you reach senior year you have the ins and outs of campus memorized and you know who to talk to in order to swing a free coffee or to persuade a professor to lighten up on the homework, but when it really comes down to it--it's still freakin' hard! You're in higher level classes which, naturally, come with more work. And, instead of worrying about finding the right building or hoping there is someone you know in your class, you are worried about finding a job and figuring out what to do once you walk across that graduation stage in a few short months.

2. No, you never really get used to the food.

It doesn't matter how many times you walk into the dining hall, the food never really gets better. I think that the right way to talk about it would be to say that you build up a tolerance towards the food, but you will never really enjoy it. There will always be times when you are aimlessly walking around the dining hall trying to chosesomething to eat when you think about a nice, home-cooked, meal and then suddenly you are reminded that it has been weeks, or even months, since you have actually eaten good food.

3. For no particular reason, the freshmen always annoy you.

Even though they have just arrived, for some reason the freshman just always seem to be in the way. Maybe they just stand out more because they are unfamiliar faces or maybe it's because they bring back memories of when you were first coming to college and it makes you think for a split second just how much you have "aged" since you were in their shoes. It's not fair to hate on freshman because everyone was a freshman at some point in their lives, but by the time you're a senior, they just seem a little extra annoying.

4. As far as friends are concerned, some come and some go, but your true friends are by your side through thick and thin.

Very rarely do you leave college with the same friends that you had coming into college, but it is not unheard of, just rare. People grow and people change and college is a time when people really figure out who they are as a person and they can leave behind the person they were in high school and become someone new. As people take classes and get deeper into their majors, they will begin to develop new friends and different acquaintances and find more and more in common with different groups of people. It is okay to end friendships and it is okay to start new ones. Sometimes, your best friend is someone that you haven't even met yet.

5. You wouldn't trade and second of it because these past years have been some of the best of your life.

Without a doubt, I can say that I wouldn't trade my college experience for anything!