and i'm no longer a freshman...

I cannot believe the year went by as quickly as it did. It's even weirder that for some reason everyone I talked to who has gone through their freshmen year has warned me of just this, but of course I always thought things would be different my time around.
It is so weird for me to think about my first night in redlands, knowing no one besides my fellow high-schoolers whose destination was the same as mine, with two new roommates I met 6 hours ago, and a campus I did not understand at all. I pretty much just wanted to laugh because I knew I was in for quite the ride, but at the same time terrified of where everything would lead me.
One thing I'm happy about.. keeping this up! Even if sometimes I didn't 'feel like it' or thought I was too tired to write I somehow got myself to post consistent entries and now have a whole years worth of thoughts, feelings, and memories that I know I will never forget.

From classes to boys to going greek to girlfriends to beer to late night papers to pledging to sunshine to unexpected amazing nights I WOULDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING FOR THE WORLD.

I learned so much from
the people I met,
the parties that sucked,
the community showers that required shoes,
and the boys who made it fun..

I am starting to see why people call it the best four years of their life.

I mean, who wouldn't like someone paying for "school" aka 24 hr social calendar, no curfew or job necessary. yeah, that sounds pretty good to me.
NOTE: However I am most likely getting a job at the redlands YMCA next fall semester :) so don't write me off as a complete slacker.

quotes that ive grown to love over this past year----

"there comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore, and who always will. so don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future."

"imperfection is boring, madness is genius, and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutely boring." m. monroe

"with friendship it doesn't matter how long you've known each other or how many fights you got into. what matters is who said 'i'll be here for you' and proved it"

"i'm the type of girl who will burst out laughing in dead silence at something that happened yesterday."

"what's meant to be... will always find its way ♥"