Well.

Tomorrow is the last day of school. All I have to say it PTL, P.T.L! I raise my hands in thankfulness.

This has definitely been the roughest semester so far, save my first semester when I was homesick most the time. This is definitely a different rough, and I would actually say a more challenging experience overall. My emotions are shot, my brain can't handle much more, I have been spiritually stretched, I'm physically exhausted, and I'm psychologically beat (did I miss anything?). I have been challenged to think differently about things, and I have challenged myself to actually act on what I have learned. I have had to think seriously about my future, and make decisions that will impact my life.

I am realizing that college is almost over. In one year exactly, I will have one week of undergraduate school... EVER. That is not long. College has flown by so fast, and there's still so much I want to do while I am here. Like the upperclassmen told me when I was a freshman, GET INVOLVED! I wish I had. I now find myself barely stepping into the Redding community, the school community, other activities... and I wish I had started this process earlier so that I could have done more. It's really starting to scare me how quickly this phase of my life is ending. Though homework/class loads can certainly be annoying and cause much stress, this has been an amazing time.

And so, next year, I am going to make the most of it. I want to be involved in my studies (duh, I am at school), but I also want to make the most of friendships and community involvement. I will savor each moment that I have with others, as I have begun to do now.