Who knew one semester could hold so much. All of the memories in just 5 months. 5 months jam packed with millions of those little moments, those little moments in which you know this is a moment that matters, this is a moment that you will remember for the years to come, that you are making these moments those moments. Those moments that you tell your children about, that you look back upon and mark as the moments that defined this time of your life, those moments that made a difference somehow even in the smallest of ways.

Tripping upon the curb as I dragged my suitcase up to the dorm I had no idea what it would hold for me. I had no idea that it would house the people that have become my dearest friends, that is would be the site of my favorite memories, or that it itself would become my home. In it lies the friends that would make spontaneous road trips with me, that are always up for an adventure even if it’s in the middle of the week or in the middle of the night, that are always ready and willing to dance anywhere, anytime and in any weather condition even if that means at 2 am in the pouring rain of the parking lot. And now, how grateful am I to hope and pray that these are the people that stay in my life, that I can hold onto because it is for them that I have to thank for all of those moments, and all of these memories, that I have made up to this point in time. It’s with these friends that I can laugh with, or laugh at. I had no idea that my friends of five months would know me better than friends of two years or that they would feel like friends of a lifetime rather than friends of a semester.

In this semester I can’t help but feel like the moments of years went by in this time of five months. We spent all of our time running from place to place to check off our list of things to do and the many places to be but finally we have to just take a moment to realize that we just allowed an entire semester to pass us by. And believe it or not, we have so much to show for it, more than we think even. We learned, and we studied, and we made friends, and we met new people, we missed old people, we studied, we partied, we danced, we laughed, we cried, and we lived out our semester that has now come and gone and like a flash of all the moments that mattered, we have so so much to show for it.