Dear College Seniors,

This is for you.

This is the last leg of the journey that you started just three years previous. This is the part of the journey where the bittersweet meets with the previous grind and outcomes the most glorious overwhelming part; graduation.

For the next 10 months, soak in every moment. Take an extra walk around campus or your high school and take every quiet and loud moment.

For the next 10 months make friends with your classmates, teachers, peers, and listen attentively. Pay attention to the advice you're given and listen to what to not do from lessons learned.

For the next 10 months remember to focus on the goals you make. Follow those goals and keep checking up on them. You might need to adjust, rearrange, and compromise them but remember what your focus is in your life.

Don't forget to spend extra time with family. The same people who helped get you to your point in your life where you can remember all your sleepless nights, tears, and baggy eyes and see the pretty diploma you're about to receive.

Don't forget your friends. Duh, this one is important. Friendships are like plants, it must be watered to keep alive. Yet it also needs the sun and the moon to keep it in its place. Don't forget the balance.

Go live experiences. Talk to new people, try a new gym, eat at a new restaurant, buy a new shirt. Attend the sold out football game, go on a date night, and laugh until you cry.

Make amends and say you're sorry. Don't forget that these next 10 months are going to fly by and before you know it the next chapter in your life will be nearing you and asking you to turn the page.