I’ve been preparing myself for college coming to an end for a while now. For a long time I thought it was important that I remember Kam’s and take walks on the Quad. I wanted to never forget the places that I thought meant most to me. But I’ve realized something that’s more important than any lesson learned in a classroom or anything some stupid exam could test me on. All those nights out wouldn’t mean anything if I were alone. And, of course, I never was. My friends were always sitting next to me, laughing right along with me. That’s my lasting impression.

It’s really easy to lose touch with people when you don’t see them every day. Unfortunately, as hard as I may fight it, it will happen. But I know when we meet again, whether its one year or twenty years from now, we’ll be sitting down and laughing ’til we can’t breath once again. Thinking about that makes me happy.

“The truth is, you have your oldest friends in life, and then you have everyone else. Nothing will trump your oldest friends. Any amount of time can pass without your feeling as if you’ve grown apart because, really, you can’t.” – Bill Simmons

I’ve met a lot of wonderful people over the past four years. I hope we never grow apart, and I hope you all become my oldest friends.