Time flies

Wow.

It has just started to hit me over the last day or so that my first year in college is almost over.  There are two weeks left of school, starting tomorrow, and I had no idea it was so close, but now summer is within sight, and that seems just crazy to me.  It is so hard to believe that, come May, it will have been a year since I graduated high school, moved away from all of my friends I've known my entire life and come out here to Wyoming to start over.

It really does seem like time goes even faster as I get older.  I had so much to adjust to once I came out here, and not that I don't have a great support group out here, but essentially I had to learn and grow from the experiences I've had on my own.  And, although some of it I learned the hard way, I really have learned so much.

Obviously I've learned a lot about school.  Like, how important it is. And how much more your grades matter when you've got money and scholarships on the line for them, and how much it majorly sucks when you screw that up.  But, stemming from that, I've learned that no matter what happens, no matter what kind of grades you get and no matter what the school has to say about them, as long as they are the best you can do, and they are a product of your best effort and time, then you should feel proud of yourself.

I have learned so much about friendship, and have definitely honed my social skills since I've been out here, too.  I mean, when you are making the choice to move to a new place, whether you are naturally outgoing, or mortifyingly shy like me, you kind of have to branch out and meet new people, or else you are going to flounder.

I've learned to try new things and go new places, even if there are people there who I have never met before.  Because you never know--they could turn out to be some of the best friends you'll make.

I've learned that sometimes a friendship might not turn out to be all you hoped it would be, but that isn't always a bad thing. It's like agreeing to disagree. You're both just two different people, so you accept it and move on, and become better people from learning that.

I've learned that, as scary as it can be to meet new people sometimes, you just need to go for it!And the best thing you can possibly do is to just be yourself :)

And I like to think that, through all of these things, I learned to take more responsibility and become more of an adult.  Not that I don't have more growing to do, because I do believe that there is always something to learn and that we, as humans, who are imperfect, always have some sort of growing to do. But I've really had to get out there, and I've certainly fallen down several times in the last year, which means I've had to pick myself up, learn from my mistakes, keep going, and keep trying my best.

And now, summer is staring me in the face, and it's time for a break before I learn even more next year.