Dear second semester,
Hey, wassup, hello! How are you doing? I’d be lying if I said I was looking forward to seeing you in a couple of days.
Well, regardless of when we will meet, I have a few things I need to tell you! As you know, me and first semester hit it off and killed the college life. So, I have high hopes for you. However, there are a few improvements I would like to suggest so that you can be superior to first semester.
My first piece of advice can be summed up with one word: CHILL!
Before you try and give me three tests in one day, remember to chill. Before you schedule a regatta weekend on the same weekend I have a paper due, remember to chill. Before you give me like ten social opportunities at the same time, remember to chill. Before you suddenly raise the temperature in Charleston, SC by thirty degrees, remember to chill (literally)!
Next, I’d like to suggest that you try harder to discourage procrastination!
I think I will regret this advice, but, for now, it would be awesome if you could make it so I didn’t have to use my super writing powers to crank out a 10 pager the day the assignment is due. Better yet, maybe you and I could work together to turn my tardy lifestyle into a “before the professor student." Also, hopefully you'll teach me that leaving my dorm at 7:58 A.M. for an 8:00 A.M. is not ideal. All in all, let’s just team up and make a commitment to getting things done and getting to places on time!
Lastly, I want to suggest a few pieces of advice which, if followed, will result in the best semester I have ever had and will ever have:
1. Give me enough time for spontaneous dance parties in my dorm in the middle of the night.
2. Be patient with me. I am only a freshmen and my future is fragile; do me a solid and don’t make it possible for me to drop out and end up in my parents’ house.
3. Stay beautiful; this is more for the college as a whole because, WOW! The College of Charleston is beautiful.
4. Don’t let me loose too much. This includes school supplies, assignments, clothes and my keys!
5. Be nice to my friends and lay off of them so that they continue to be nice to me and have time to do tip one with me, and so that they can help me accomplish tip four.
6. Work hard to make 2017 a year to remember. That’s right, for the first five months of the year, you and I will be working together to show 2017 who's boss!
Okay, pep talk over! It’s almost your time to shine and I believe in you! Second semester, you are going to kill it and leave all the other semesters in the dust, but only if you take these suggestions and make some minor corrections.
Because I passed first semester,
Maddy Middleton
