Hannah Kroll

WHEN YOUR FRIENDS ARE ABOUT TO GRADUATE

So the other day i was sitting and talking to one of my best friends about how i needed to fix my schedule for next year (since one of the classes i was signed up for got canceled). The convo then turned into where i was living next year, had i ended up getting the single i wanted during that circus know to all as room draw (an explanation of that will be in another post). Suddenly it hit me, she was not going to be here next year….. she is graduating in two weeks. in my head i went through my list of friends, and realized that not only was one of my best friends graduating, but it seemed like close to half my friends were graduating as well.

I know that this weekend should be an awesome and great weekend, it is the last weekend of work, it is the last weekend before summer etc. however to me it is a very bittersweet weekend. It is the last weekend that i will be able to hang out with a lot of my friends before they graduate, and here i am at 10:50 am sitting in the library doing home work.

One of the strange things about college as a whole, and goucher is no exception, is that you develop extremely tight bonds with your friends since you live with/around them pretty much 24/7. The nice thing though is that freshman can become friends with seniors, there really is not “class” divide. that is until the end of second semester. As i am sitting and really just starting out, getting ready for next year, for what classes i am taking next semester and how i am spending my summer, many of my friends are getting ready to end their college careers, graduate and figure out what they are doing when they leave goucher. it is at this point when one really realizes that your best friends are seniors. but it does not matter. just because i am a freshman and they are seniors does not mean i love them any less. they have been there for me and helped me learn about my self, they have helped me stay up when i needed to finish papers, we have goofed off in the library when we have needed a break from work.

I hope that this post does not sound like i am telling you to avoid making friends with seniors because that is absolutely not what i am trying to say.

The fact is that when you get to goucher, it will feel strange at first, after all only a few months earlier you were the big shots at school. but when you get here, you will be the youngest again. for me my senior friends have helped me to adjust to being the youngest again. granted we all make jokes about how i am the youngest, if someone says something “inappropriate” another person (sometimes even me) will say “hey hey hey we have a freshman in the room.” but not matter what, they don’t see me as less of a friend or less of a person.

so i must dedicate this post to my friends who are graduating in two weeks. i love them all so much and i know i am going to miss them, but of course the joy of college is that there is always an opportunity to make new friends with the incoming freshman. but i will never replace my friends in the class of 2008 in my heart.

HELL WEEK:

Hell week is more like three weeks, and it is the last three weeks (and finals week) of the semester. we all move into the library and work work work work. it is stressful and exhausting. and if you get to the library after about 4 pm you can kiss your chances of getting a computer good bye. however there are some fun (yea i know what is fun about home work) things about hell week. for instance, all of your friends have also moved into the library so, you still get to spend time with them. this comes in very handy at 11:30 pm when you want to order a pizza or something. yea that’s right, you can get food delivered directly to the library.

So that’s what i have to say right now….. back to home work. hope this post helped some. next post, i will try to talk more about my experience with adjusting and stuff like that.