This is so, so weird.
Freshman year can't possibly be ending so soon... can it? I mean, I'm sitting here on my bed, with my back against the wall just like I've done hundreds of times this year... but the view is completely different. Jinny's sheets aren't on the bed, there's nothing on the walls, the dresser and desks are bare, there's boxes out again... My own bed, with the sheets still on it, seems very out-of-place amid all the suitcases and...overwhelming bareness. I can hardly recognize the outside of my door, since the name cards aren't on it anymore...
Is there anything stable about college life?
Well, I did survive my finals on Monday. Thank you if you prayed!!! I was able to calm down, I got up on time, and I think I did pretty well!! I also finished studying on time for my Sociology final. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be! I finished a bit early and it felt really good to be done with that once I was!!!
The rest of that day I spent packing. I packed for a while, did my final load of laundry in this building, and then didn't want to go to bed, so I went on a walk around campus with Thomas. It's always fun having Thomas around!! We explored Marshall and the music school and enjoyed the warm air :) It's getting really warm here.
Today it was 91 degrees out. Oppressively hot, if you ask me. I spent pretty much all day packing, though I did a little studying here and there.
For a late lunch, Jinny, Anna, Jacqueline, and I went to Nektar! I'd never been before, but it's this smoothie/fruit place on campus hidden in the architecture school. And it is fabulous!!! It feels very LA, but the smoothies are really nice. I'll have to go more next semester!! It was also really fun hanging out with those girls :)
The other eventful thing that happened was me getting stressed about this stupid 210 scene again. We attempted a group meeting but practically no one that we actually needed to show up did, so we had to postpone it. I got really upset about it, but oh well, I guess. It won't matter in 24 hours.
24 hours... Wow.
Jinny and I had dinner at EVK for the last time as Freshmen! It was very nice, which is really nice for EVK!!
I've spent this evening finishing packing, studying, and painting my nails even though they got messed up immediately after I finished them... Oh well. Jinny and I also hung out with Sneha, Hannah, and Corona in Hannah's room! That was really fun :)
I've got to say, I'm so lucky to have gotten Hannah as my RA. She's so chill and sweet. I don't think my experience would've been the same without her! Plus, I got to live right across the hall from her, which means I got to actually bond with her more than I might have otherwise. I'm really lucky. I hope I get to see her lots next year!
But yeah... Here I am... in my nearly empty dorm room. Technically, this is my last post as a USC Freshman, since by the time I post tomorrow, I'll be done.
How am I feeling? ...Nostalgic, sentimental, wanting time to slow down... but paradoxically, wanting it to speed up too. I'm so excited to be done, even though I know this experience is so unique and worth savoring. I guess I'm feeling sentimentally bittersweet. There's a lot about this building I'm going to miss: the girls on my hall, the old view of the parking garage, the dungeon gym, waking up to tailgating people on game day, hanging out late into the night with my friends in their rooms, always finding somebody awake at any hour of the day, treking down to EVK every day, being so close to everything on campus, exploring the campus, studying (and pulling all-nighters) in the lounge... yeah. It's pretty special and unique to my first year of college. What a classic college experience.
Though, I won't miss the bathrooms. That I know for sure!!
Well... Goodbye, Pardee Tower. This is the last night we'll spend together. I'm glad I could call this bed my own, and this building my home, for a while. It'll always be special to me now :)
Fight on, friends
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