I am writing this letter so I can read it again in a year. As I sit here, reflecting on my junior year of college, I can't even begin to put into words how fast time has flown by. It feels like yesterday that I was going into my senior year of high school, yet here I am four years later, becoming a senior again. Next school year will be another year of lasts. Last recruitment for my sorority. Last year writing for The Odyssey. Last first day of school. Last classes and last meetings and the last time that I can still kinda be a kid before really being an adult.
So as I finish up my last assignments of my junior year of college, I want to write a letter to myself a year from now, and to all the things that I hope I accomplish my senior year.
I hope you did well in your classes. College had a rough start, but the last few semesters have seen your GPA rise more and more, and I only hope that trend continues senior year, no matter how tired of school you are.
I hope you went out more. Not to frat parties of course, you're 22 year's old, but to girl's nights and bars and clubs with friends. I hope you got to know more people in your sorority and that you continued to get closer to the people you already considered your friends. I hope you finally have that group of supportive girls that you've always looked for in your life to accompany you on many adventures.
I hope you finally picked out a wedding dress and a wedding date. Though there's nothing wrong with a long engagement, I hope you and Anthony have finally started planning the most amazing day of your life. Even if it's still not for another year, just the thought of having the plans in place makes me so very excited.
I hope you've been loving yourself more. I hope you're still running and doing martial arts, but I also hope you don't obsess over your weight or how you look as much as I do right now. I hope you're able to get past that self-consciousness that always returns every few years, and that you're happy and healthy no matter what you weigh.
Finally, I hope you're excited about the future. Whether you have that writing job you want so badly, or you're working a minimum wage job or even if you're doing something unconventional after college, I hope you're excited. I hope you're ready to face the world ahead and that you're ready to embrace the amazing life you have left to live.
College goes by fast, and if the past three years mean anything, then I have a feeling my senior year will be even better and will go by even faster than the last.
