Throughout college, we as students have warned many different goggles that obscured or view and made us think differently about the actualities of life. The most famous being drunk goggles and small town goggles, however now we are faced with a new obstruction. For those of us who know we will be done with this college after this year we have started to face the problem of graduation goggles and even the most annoying and frustrating things about this school have become things we do not want to leave behind. With only about 58 days left in the semester, we can finally start looking back at the past years with admiration and start to mourn everything we will loose as we enter into the next stage of our lives.

For me, graduation goggles are hitting me most when I think about the friends I am leaving. Every friendship seems as the most important thing and I have started to look back on even the most toxic relationships in a way that makes me want to reach out to those people and try to make sure as I leave I leave on good terms with everyone. All my friends on campus have become saints in my mind and nothing they do could be wrong because I do not want to leave them for they are my safety net.

Everyone on campus complains about the things that do not work. They complain about the bad food and the bad living conditions. However as I get ready to leave all I can reflect on is how for the few years I have had a decent place to live with heat and running water (most of the time) and I have not had to make one meal for myself. I have never had to pay for an electricity or water bill and once I leave here I will have to cook for myself and pay my own bills.

As a student body we complain about all the red tape that has prevented us from doing things we wanted to do or that has made it harder to get to the place where we can graduate, however, I can not remember any specific examples at this point because all I can focus on are the professors that I have befriended and rely on for advice. As I look to leave here I notice how rare of a connection I have made with many professors here and I can only think about how thankful I am to have a supportive group of people who want me to succeed.

All the problems, stress and at times hatred for this school and the decision I made for coming to this school has somehow disappeared with the end in site and I having to face the fact that after about 58 days I will have to be on my own and the comforts I have come to enjoy and take for granted will no longer be there. At the beginning of the year, I felt as though I had too much time on this campus and I could not get to the end quick enough but with only about 58 days left I have realized that, I have not had enough time here and I am not ready for it to end.