How?
An ode to my freshman year of college.
Vol.1
How? A word that has been running laps across my mind the last couple of days. How am I about finish my first year of college? How and when did I grow up? How did I move away from Indiana 9 months ago and how did that feel like yesterday? How did I become inseparable from my friends on the 4th floor and how am I ever going to live without them being a couple steps away? How did I find myself reminiscing about all the amazing memories in the same dorm room where I cried in when my parents dropped me off a couple months ago? How did I ever fall sleep without hearing my roommates stories and laughing til we can’t breathe? How did we manage to not get a noise complaint? How did I learn every building of the campus and the bus schedule? How did “come to my room” become “see you in the fall” so quickly. How did I get used to the tiny communal showers? How did this year go by so fast? How and when did Western Kentucky become home? How did I manage to grow my faith during the most pivotal and challenging point of my life? How did I ever spend Wednesday nights without worship at Living Hope and Thursdays without my bible study girls? How did I get so good at being in a long distance relationship? How did people ever live without telephones? How did I use up all my meal plan dollars in 3 months, and where did all my money go? How do taxes work? How many times did I call my mom with dumb questions, probably too many to count. How did I become a sorority girl and learn the greek alphabet? How can I watch my friends pack up their rooms without bursting into tears? How did everyone learn to backwards park so well in Kentucky, is that on y’alls driving test? How do I stop saying “y’all” in every sentence? How am I going to go home for the summer when my newest best friends don’t live down the hall from me? How do I leave the place and the people that became home for 4 whole months. How were my friends ever strangers to me? How do I ever leave normal hall floor 4? How did I ever dislike the idea of this place? How did I blink and freshman year is now a memory? How am I feeling so sentimental about a time I was so scared to start? How is freshman year over already?
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