THIS IS THE END OF AN ERAAAA!!!
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Well, as the title says, this is the end of an era. Okay, technically the "era" isn't over until Thursday, but still. It'll be over really really soon.
I'm leaving this stuffy, Bible-throwing, tiny, annoying, RP-filled college for good come Thursday. I am SO fucking excited. I never have to go to another Chapel or eat Alex's food or wish the library was actually open on Sundays or mourn the fact that there's nowhere to eat at ungodly hours of the morning or be the only liberal who supports marriage equality and wants to love everyone or have to raise my hand to get some common sense in the classroom or have to hear Jesus in every other sentence...
And so on.
Basically, I'm leaving behind a chapter of my life and I can't wait.
I am two papers, one project, and one final away from leaving this school forever. I mean, I'll come back to visit and stuff, but I never have to deal with any of the shitty curriculum or anything anymore. Seriously, I've had it up to here with this one-sided, biased bubble I've been living in. I can't wait to go out into the real world and write about things and make friends who believe in Buddha and who will tell me abortion should be legal everywhere and who get drunk and make me take care of them at four in the morning and who have sex with their boyfriends/girlfriends and expect me to listen to how it was and who will let me keep a rainbow flag in my dorm and who will go see musicals with me and not search for the "Christian message" or who think that Spring Awakening is immoral and all those other LIBERAL and open-minded things that normal people in the real world do.
I'm gonna have gay friends again, guys!! Like, legit, out-of-the-closet gay friends who will let me hug them and squeeze them and tell them that I'll fight for their equality and actually not be laughed at for it. And I'll get to write about it all!
No more saying "something I can't say" instead of saying "shit" or "fuck."
No more having to defend my beliefs tooth and nail.
No more turning off my music because it's "offensive."
No more worrying about whether my friends will still like me if I say what I really want to say.
No more being judged because I left my Bible at home.
No more taking down my dorm decs because they're against school policy.
No more wishing for fun things to do on the weekends.
No more having the Bible quoted at me every two seconds.
No more one-sided arguments where I know the person will never actually listen to me.
NO MORE LIVING IN FUCKING CLARKE HALL!!!
No more living with the RA and knowing I could do her job better.
No more Beaver Falls.
Yeah, I'm only a *little* excited to go to school in Pittsburgh.
Now if only my humanities paper would write itself... Note to self: never live with freshmen who aren't in HUM 303 again.