Well, hello everyone! Here we are. Another year at college. Three months of summer vacation are over (FINALLY!!), and a new school year has launched, full swing. As a sophomore, this for me is a bit of a new sensation. Another year at college??? This is so weird....Okay, it's not too weird. I'm actually quite happy. I can't wait to catch up with all my friends that I made last year and to create new memories with them this year. Freshman year was wonderful. It had its ups and its downs, of course. But I knew then that I wanted go back to it all. I love my friends, I love my professors, and I love Charleston Southern University. I'm looking forward to this new year.

As I said, I'm happy to be able to meet up with my friends again. Three months is too long. So to everyone I'm catching up with, I love you guys! Of course, some of you transferred to other schools, and others have graduated. You will be missed, and always in my prayers. Hopefully, we will see each other again very soon!

I remember telling some of my closest friends that the weirdest thing about being a second-year student would be telling all the freshman, "CSU's great, you're gonna love it here." It certainly will be, and I'm not sure how to wrap my head around the fact that I can actually say that now. So to the freshmen: welcome to the CSU family. I hope to make good friends from among you.

And I'm excited for my classes. All the classes I've filled are ones that I've planned on taking for some time now, and I'm happy to finally begin them. I'm taking Ancient Greece and Rome alongside Elementary Koine Greek I, which I think is perfect. And I love my professors. CSU has awesome faculty. I'm happy to begin learning under them again.

So to my friends, my professors, and to my friends yet to come: here's to all of us. Here's to a new year together, old and new friends, new classes, old and new teachers. I can't wait to see how the year goes. GO BUCS!