Summer is almost here, I can basically taste it at this point.

What's preventing me from my favorite season?

School.

We are well into April, and there are about 2 and a half weeks left of school. All I can think of is beaches, traveling, warm summer nights, smores and bonfires but all I can see are books, exam dates, grades, and STRESS.

If you're like me, you're contemplating how you're going to be able to make it through the next couple of weeks without combusting from all the formulas, facts, and hypotheticals in your head. While I wish I had the advice to offer up, I really don't this time.

The struggle to stay focused is REAL.

The way I'm trying to look at it is to get myself into the mentality of grinding for a couple more weeks then being able to reward myself with tan lines and endless cheeseburgers and gym days in a real gym not filled with frat guys that are more focused on chatting with the "bros" than actually working out.

On a different note, after these couple of weeks are through its time to pack up and for me, go into my junior year next year. This is weird because I'm pretty sure I was a freshman like, yesterday.

I've recently let the fact settle in that I am halfway through my college career. While I continue to write about things I look forward to, I notice I am basically wishing my time away. When I look back, I notice that I never truly live in the moment as much as I wish I could. So focused on upcoming holidays, fun things, even exams, I hardly notice that time is flying by.

While no one understands the struggle of focusing when so many fun things are coming up more than me, I am trying my best to look at it from a different angle (any angle really) that is going to help me get through these couple of weeks but trying my best not to wish this time away.

One day, we will all be older telling our kids "don't wish your time away" because you never truly realize how fast time flies and in a blink of an eye, your youth is over and it's into the real world.