Halfway there...

I've been back in Columbus for a couple weeks now. Spring semester is over, meaning my second year at USI is complete.

Translation? I'm halfway done with college.

Whoa.

One one hand, I feel like high school graduation was just yesterday. But on the other hand, when I consider how much has happened since then and how many special people have entered my life, I feel like USI has been a part of my life forever.

I just can't imagine life without that place and those people. I can't really put into words how attached I am to everything and everyone down in Evansville. That place is home to me just as much as Columbus is.

Moving back home for the summer was bittersweet... but mostly bitter. I miss my roommates and my apartments and my neighbors and my best friends and, yeah, even the homework/classes part of USI life.

One of the saddest parts about moving back home? Saying goodbye to everyone. Especially these people...

I met Hannah in Biology lecture on the very first day of classes, freshman year. (She was the second friend I made at USI... right after Amy!) Not long after that I was introduced to her boyfriend, who is now the fiancé. Hannah and Ryan were two of my best friends during these past couple of years, even after Hannah transferred from USI to Roger's Academy of Hair Design and moved off campus. They were never more than a 5-minute drive away.

But in less than a month, these two lovebirds are getting married and moving to St. Louis. They've already rented the cutest little house out there and while I'm super happy for them and their new life together, the fact remains that I'll now have to drive 3 hours (from Evansville) or 7 hours (from Columbus) to visit them.

Sad, sad, sad.

Dealing with this, and then having to say goodbye to Amy and the rest of my friends at school, left me one sad cookie for quite a few days. I cried the whole way home and I'm still missing that place like crazy.

I don't deal with goodbyes very well. Or change. And I know that with only two years of school left, some of the biggest goodbyes and changes of my life aren't that far away. I guess I should probably work on my coping skills, huh?

Thanks to everyone who made these past two years so amazing for me. You know who you are.

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I remember every night we spent on weekends with good friends

We did nothing but it seems like we did so much back then

Oh, back then we would kick it, laughing

All relaxing and taking things for granted

We can't forget all the faces that we have met

Send me back to the sleepless nights, the stupid fights

And oh, it never mattered who was wrong or who was right

And now you're all a part of me

{ Excerpts from "We All Roll Along" by The Maine }