I recently just finished my sophomore year of college at Washington College, yay me! With this school year coming to a close, it also brought a lot of goodbyes along with it. My friends are from all different places making it hard to see them over the summer with not only the distance between us but also all of our busy schedules. So we said our goodbyes and shed a few tears but we knew that we would see each other in a week for our school's graduation. So through the five long days with out them, I learned a lot of things.

I learned that my life is really boring without them in it. I don't have many friends back home, just a couple that I'm really close to, so I don't have that many options when they are all busy too. Typically at school I can just walk five minutes and be in my best friend's dorm talking about my day or eating lunch with them. But now when they're hundreds of miles away, it makes things really hard. So now my summer is down to work, Netflix and many lonely beach trips.

I learned that taco bell runs at 2am are not as popular at home as they are at school. My friends and I survived off of tacos this year. It was like a therapy session for us. We would text and meet at my car and go to taco bell to talk about crappy boys and how our lives have ben in shambles for the past few months. No topic was off limits in taco bell. This was our spot. Back home, friends work all day or all night so taco bell runs are limited. Although I do have an occasional friend that will offer to buy and deliver to me any food I want to cheer me up when I'm sad. If you're reading this, just know you're the bomb.com.

I learned that I don't do as much adventuring when I'm home than when I'm at school. Maybe it's just because I've lived here my entire life so I know everything there possibly is to know about this small place. But at college, it's a whole separate world. There's so much to discover, so many new secret spots to be found and loved.

I learned that there's nothing more relaxing than locking ourselves in a dorm room watching old Scooby Doo episodes for an entire weekend. Trust me, my friends and I are pros at watching a whole season of a Netflix show in one whole day. Yeah I can watch netflix by myself in my room at home, but it's just not the same without my best friends.

The most important thing that I've learned is that I wouldn't trade my friends and their chaotic lives for anything. There are big ships and there are small ships, but there is no ship, like friendship.