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In a few weeks...
A year has past and now we stand on the brink of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything yet nothing being the same. In a few weeks we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, say goodbye to the people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left. We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends. We will go back to places we came from and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before. We will come into town on that same familiar road, and even thought it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.
As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become. You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand. Who will you call first? Where are you going to work? Who will be at the party Saturday night? What has everyone been up to? Who from school will you keep in touch with? How long before you actually start missing people bargaining in without calling or knocking? Who will get breadsticks with you at three in the morning? How long until you adjust to sleeping in a room by yourself, or how long before you realize your three best friends aren't in the bed next to your room?
Then you realize how much things have changed, you realize the hardest part of college is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. In the matter of one day's traveling time, we will leave our world of living next door to our best friends, walking across campus to eat, instant messenger, 8:00 classes, and perpetual procrastination to a world that will seem foreign to us despite the fact that we have lived in it for nineteen years.
But it is different now... We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know whom we have kept in touch with over the past year and whom we hold dearest to our hearts. We've left our high school worlds to deal with the real world. We have had our hearts broken, we've fell in love, we've helped our best friends through the toughest times of their lives, something their even best friends at home couldn't be there for. We've stayed up all night just to be there for a friend. We've partied the night away, doing stupid stuff, but we were always there for each other afterwards. There have been times when we've felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us most, and there are times when we know we have made a difference.
A few weeks from now we will leave. A few weeks from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes. No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random emails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.
A few weeks from now from now we will arrive. A few weeks from now from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will drive over to our best friend's house and do nothing for hours on end. We will return to the same friends whose random emails and phone calls have brought us laughter and tears over the past year. We will unpack old memories and dreams that have been put away for the past year.
A few weeks from now we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close. And somehow, in someway, we will find our place between these two worlds.
In a few weeks.... are you ready?
(Yeah so, I did borrow it from someone else, but it is what it is all about)
Makes you think. I mean even breaks I was missin this place. It's true, I can't imagine not coming back to laugh at Whitey's latest antics every night, giggling across the quad with Mary at 3 am after a night of partying, the giant Stoddard food fights. I mean everything here has taught me who I can count on. I'll miss the nights of ordering chinese and watching Dirty Dancing, gathering in my room at 2:30 am to catch up on everyone's nights, and i'll even miss the nights I spent crying in one person or another's arms. I've learned who from home I've kept close and who really matters to me, but it is different, for all of us. It really is a different world when I'm home and when I'm here. I love both places, but in two different ways. I guess all I want everyone here at WPI to know is that even when I'm being obnoxious or being a bitch, I remember. I have all the times that you've been there for me, all the hugs you've given me, all the times you've let me cry,all the times you've come to my defense,when you've been angry at how someone treated me, when you stayed up til all hours to help me study for a test I failed anyways, how you all watch out for me no matter what, all the times we've chased each other around and gotten on each other's nerves, I love you all.
Whitey- omg all the stories, you crazy ass mofo, always smiling, always on the go. I can't imagine having lived with anyone else.
Lique- Who else takes care of me cuz they're tall? Another smiley mofo, up for anything, right next to me when I need ya.
Mary-my twin, I absolutely heart you! We've been thru it all this year, tears, laughs, sickness, parties, trouble, we always make it thru and come out together.
Mackey- My lil neat freak, you make me laugh. Thanks for being there.
Nate- my pantless sketchy frat friend, if there's debauchery going on in Stoddard, guaranteed you're at the center. :)
My D2 Elites and C boys- i love all you weirdos.
Ive learned from so many more people, so many more friends here, those are just a few that impacted me most here.
SoOoOoO I <3 all my Lynn Crew too, I'll be back soon, to collapse in the comfort of familiar arms. To take trips to Boston, to go to Putnam Pantry, Salem Willows, have crazy nights at Missy's and Tyler's, fear for our lives with Alex's driving, steal cones with Jannie, whisper late at night with becci. But just as much as I miss you all now, I'm gonna miss my WPI crew. I love you all forever, dont lose touch over the summer, and we'll be back! I'm gonna go cry now. lol
A year has past and now we stand on the brink of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything yet nothing being the same. In a few weeks we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, say goodbye to the people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left. We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends. We will go back to places we came from and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before. We will come into town on that same familiar road, and even thought it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.
As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become. You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand. Who will you call first? Where are you going to work? Who will be at the party Saturday night? What has everyone been up to? Who from school will you keep in touch with? How long before you actually start missing people bargaining in without calling or knocking? Who will get breadsticks with you at three in the morning? How long until you adjust to sleeping in a room by yourself, or how long before you realize your three best friends aren't in the bed next to your room?
Then you realize how much things have changed, you realize the hardest part of college is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. In the matter of one day's traveling time, we will leave our world of living next door to our best friends, walking across campus to eat, instant messenger, 8:00 classes, and perpetual procrastination to a world that will seem foreign to us despite the fact that we have lived in it for nineteen years.
But it is different now... We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know whom we have kept in touch with over the past year and whom we hold dearest to our hearts. We've left our high school worlds to deal with the real world. We have had our hearts broken, we've fell in love, we've helped our best friends through the toughest times of their lives, something their even best friends at home couldn't be there for. We've stayed up all night just to be there for a friend. We've partied the night away, doing stupid stuff, but we were always there for each other afterwards. There have been times when we've felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us most, and there are times when we know we have made a difference.
A few weeks from now we will leave. A few weeks from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes. No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random emails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.
A few weeks from now from now we will arrive. A few weeks from now from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will drive over to our best friend's house and do nothing for hours on end. We will return to the same friends whose random emails and phone calls have brought us laughter and tears over the past year. We will unpack old memories and dreams that have been put away for the past year.
A few weeks from now we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close. And somehow, in someway, we will find our place between these two worlds.
In a few weeks.... are you ready?
(Yeah so, I did borrow it from someone else, but it is what it is all about)
Makes you think. I mean even breaks I was missin this place. It's true, I can't imagine not coming back to laugh at Whitey's latest antics every night, giggling across the quad with Mary at 3 am after a night of partying, the giant Stoddard food fights. I mean everything here has taught me who I can count on. I'll miss the nights of ordering chinese and watching Dirty Dancing, gathering in my room at 2:30 am to catch up on everyone's nights, and i'll even miss the nights I spent crying in one person or another's arms. I've learned who from home I've kept close and who really matters to me, but it is different, for all of us. It really is a different world when I'm home and when I'm here. I love both places, but in two different ways. I guess all I want everyone here at WPI to know is that even when I'm being obnoxious or being a bitch, I remember. I have all the times that you've been there for me, all the hugs you've given me, all the times you've let me cry,all the times you've come to my defense,when you've been angry at how someone treated me, when you stayed up til all hours to help me study for a test I failed anyways, how you all watch out for me no matter what, all the times we've chased each other around and gotten on each other's nerves, I love you all.
Whitey- omg all the stories, you crazy ass mofo, always smiling, always on the go. I can't imagine having lived with anyone else.
Lique- Who else takes care of me cuz they're tall? Another smiley mofo, up for anything, right next to me when I need ya.
Mary-my twin, I absolutely heart you! We've been thru it all this year, tears, laughs, sickness, parties, trouble, we always make it thru and come out together.
Mackey- My lil neat freak, you make me laugh. Thanks for being there.
Nate- my pantless sketchy frat friend, if there's debauchery going on in Stoddard, guaranteed you're at the center. :)
My D2 Elites and C boys- i love all you weirdos.
Ive learned from so many more people, so many more friends here, those are just a few that impacted me most here.
SoOoOoO I <3 all my Lynn Crew too, I'll be back soon, to collapse in the comfort of familiar arms. To take trips to Boston, to go to Putnam Pantry, Salem Willows, have crazy nights at Missy's and Tyler's, fear for our lives with Alex's driving, steal cones with Jannie, whisper late at night with becci. But just as much as I miss you all now, I'm gonna miss my WPI crew. I love you all forever, dont lose touch over the summer, and we'll be back! I'm gonna go cry now. lol