Dear Mom and Dad,

I cannot thank you for all that you do for me. I honestly don’t know even where to start, whether it’s paying for college or supporting me throughout all of my endeavors. You mean the world to me and not until this year of college have I begun to appreciate everything that you have not only done for me, but also for my future, for my wellbeing, for my friends, everything.

Mom, there is nothing I miss more than waking up on Saturday mornings. I miss you attacking me, tickling me until I wake up to go with you to your yoga classes. I miss cooking healthy quinoa and tofu with you. I have never appreciated all of the happiness that you have brought into my life. I can’t wait to come home to go to more aerial yoga classes, to drag you to various food places, or just to cuddle with you.

Not only have you made my world incredible, but you go out of your way to make all of my friends happier. Whether it’s cooking my friends' favorite dishes for when they come over, or taking my best friends out to brunch for their birthdays, you are amazing. I cannot even begin to thank you for the less obvious things, like funding all the extravagant things I do.

Dad, thanks for keeping me intellectual. Without you, I wouldn't have learned math starting at the young age of 2, where you began to force to me to do addition and subtraction. You have driven to me to pursue an academic career. Thank you for checking up on me, enabling my online shopping habit, and being there to call when I need help making the big decisions or when I just need someone to talk to. Even though you let me only visit one school during college touring, and that you reminded me about how the freshmen 15 are very real, you keep it real.

I cannot thank you in the slightest for all that you have done. Without my parents, I would not be the driven, mannered, intellectual individual that I have become today. Parents enable their children to rise to their potential, to reach for the stars. Despite all of the stress, the laughs, the tears, the screams, you have become the most important in the world to me. I hope that you are always my best friends forever.

I cannot even thank you enough,

Surabhi