To the Fearsome Threesome,

I’m already imagining coming back in the Fall. I’m expecting to see your faces and to hear you sing, but then, the reality hits that you’re about to graduate.

When I started writing this, the first thing I wrote was: “Please don’t go.”

But I do want you to.

It’s going to suck, but I know you’ve been ready for a long time, and I can’t wait to see the amazing things you do.

So, I want you to know the giant impact you have had on my life, and how much I’ve looked up to each of you.

Calli, Karima:

I was beyond nervous to stay with you over the summer because I knew it was the first real taste of Binghamton that I would get. I knew it would give me a little bit of insight on what to expect when I came back in the Fall, and I was so nervous that I would be left behind, or treated like the almost-sophomore that I was, or that I would hate everything about it.

None of that happened.

You let me into your home, as a stranger, and made me feel as if I had known you forever. You gave me so much encouragement, told me so many stories about what Binghamton was like and what I should expect, and you went out of your way to include me.

Now that I’ve known you for a year, I can easily say that it wasn’t because you were putting in more of an effort to make me feel comfortable, but that that is just the kind of people you are. You are hysterical, vibrant, warm-hearted, hardworking and SO talented.

Beyond this, you are fantastic performers and artists, and you are going to go so far.

I hope you see how much you’ve grown since last summer, because I definitely do. I’ve learned so much from watching you, and I cannot thank you enough for starting me off on my journey at Binghamton the right way.

Without you, I’m sure things could have been different.

Thank you for introducing me to the phrase “Living my best life,” because I think we can all agree I wouldn’t be the person I am today if I didn’t have that. (I say it like a prayer and I have no shame, tbh).

Thank you for opening your home to me and thank you for accepting me.

Lauren:

I’m not sure if you remember, but our first interaction was when you were facetiming Calli from Italy while I was staying with them. They raved to me about what a fantastic singer you were, and at that moment, I didn’t realize that I knew that already.

You were the first I saw perform. I went to Sharon Sweet’s Master Class where you sang, and I didn’t know who you were, or who who you studied with, but I knew that you were a star. I was so impressed with how you performed that I raved about it for half of my voice lesson the next week.

Getting to know you beyond “the girl that sang at the master class,” has been so amazing.

You are so sweet, intelligent, driven, funny and talented.

Thank you for being the person that I know will always respond in the “Miranda voice” no matter where we are or who is around us.

Thank you for being my lifeline in Music History and for always talking me down from my freak outs.

So, Fearsome Threesome,

Thank you.

Thank you for everything you have taught me, as a performer and as a person. Thank you for being my college big-sisters, and for being the people I know I can come to about literally anything.

Thank you for being my personal class advisors and for steering me away from the worst professors, and thank you for being my counselors when there’s just too much drama.

Thank you for being the people that I can vent to or with.

Thank you for always having my back, and for being ready to come to my room when I have bronchitis, just so you can defend me.

Thank you for keeping me up to date on all of the latest gossip, thank you for keeping me laughing, and thank you for believing in me.

Thank you for being my lifelines and my role-models. I am truly blessed to call you my friends.

Being your friend has been utterly life-changing, and I am going to miss the shit out of you next year.

I love you guys and I can’t wait to see you change the world.