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A Letter to the College Senior

Hold on to the memories.

Marialena Rago

Aug 30, 2016

Hofstra University

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Dear Senior,

Today might be your last first day of school...ever. For the past 21 years or so, you have woken up on a September morning either super excited to go back to the world of education or dreading it completely. Well today will be the last time you do that. After, you will be either super excited to go to your first day of your new job or you will be dreading it completely. This is now the real, real world. You have that degree that cost more money than you hoped it would, you have the skills (hopefully) to go out and rock that new job or job interview, and you have your college besties by your side to reminisce about your college experience. This doesn't have to be as terrifying as you are making it. It really can be the beginning of a whole new adventure.

Most people hate even thinking about "adulting". Bills, jobs, responsibilities- ew. But it could be fun. This is your chance to really be who you want to be. Throughout college, you realize that you aren't completely on your own. You still might have mom and dad helping you out or you might still have them telling you what to do with your life. Now it really is all up to you. You have grown over these last four years. You have changed so much. Made new friends, lost new friends. Found love, lost it. You have grown in ways you never even imagined and now is the time to put it all out there for everyone to see.

Though looking towards the future might be exciting and daunting at the same time, make sure you also remember that these will be "your last" moments in college. Your last homecoming. Your last spring break. Your last annual trip with friends. Take them all in just like you did your senior year of high school. Remember that these memories and friends will be with you forever. They helped you grow as a person and into an adult. They were there when you had your first legal drink. They were there when you had your heart broken and all the little things in between. Maybe they were your first roommates ever. The truth of the matter is, you ate, slept, and breathed together in a small room 24/7. These people have become your family. Don't forget that.

College was the best years of our lives, so they say. A bunch of firsts happen here, but college is only the beginning of your adult lives. There are adventures waiting for you that you couldn't even imagine. So when you are feeling down or nervous or anxious about May creeping up, remember that you were feeling the same thing four years ago and things turned out pretty darn well.

Sincerely,

Another College Senior.

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Because Chandler Bing should be everyone's spirit animal.

1. When you have to wake up early, because you have a 9 AM class.

2. When all of your friends are coupled up... except for you.

3. When you get really bored in class, and you want your professor to stop talking

4. When you're trying to impress the person that you like, or your significant other.

5. When you got drunk at the bars... again.

6. When you are single, and desperate.

7. When you talk with someone who you don't like.

8. When it's finals week.

9. When you don't feel like working out.

10. When you finally decide to go out for the first time in months.

The struggles of having an RBF are all too real

1. People asking if you're mad at them.

2. Those people who hand out flyers don't always try to stop you.

3. Creepy guys telling you to smile.

4. "I thought you were a bitch when I first met you."

5. People telling you you'd be "so much prettier if you smiled."

6. Doing your makeup and looking great, which somehow intensifies the bitch face.

7. Regularly explaining "it's just my face."

We all go through certain stages when we have a crush, Tina just explains it better.

That moment that someone you never looked twice at suddenly makes you do a double take out of no where.

But you can't have a crush, that's outrageous. It's all in your head.

Because you don't have a crush, there's no reason to tell anyone about anything. Right?

But then they do something irresistible and you start to lose it.

Now accepting the fact you have a crush, you have to keep it under control.

Then there's the part where you tell your friends who will claim they called it.

They'll be excited and cheer you on. That's until they realize that your crush is all you'll be talking about.

Your obsession has become so bad, that your Facebook stalking is getting out of control.

But your friends will try and help move things along any way they can. That doesn't mean it will be any helpful though.

As time goes on, you start having fantasies about the two of you and it's starting to scare you a little.

You can't focus on anything because all your attention is on them and everything they do.

Anybody who comes near your crush is now an enemy, and you are willing to fight for your crush.

When you see them, you act like an idiot. Trying to hide your feelings may not be as discrete as you think.

Keeping your feelings inside will start to be harder and harder until you can't keep it inside anymore.

Who knows, maybe it will work out? Take a chance.

Everybody hurts sometimes.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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