Once again I'm sorry for ignoring you, my small but loyal fanbase. I've been blogging a lot in Henry's Blog - not because I prefer it over my own blog, but because it's a lot easier to write about Henry eating dead chipmunks than to write about graduating college.
Soooo graduating college....college graduation....college graduate.
Yeah, I actually don't have much to say. I came, I studied, I conquered.
My college career actually has rather nice bookends: Mom and dad drove me with all my stuff from Saint Louis to Boston in a trailblazer, and now, 4 years later, mom and dad are driving me from Boston to Saint Louis in a trailblazer. I love things that come full circle!
So instead of getting all sappy and talking about how much I learned and how much I love my friends and how much I'm going to miss college...
I thought I would compile a list of things I never thought I would do in college that I did:
1. Compete in 20+ triathlons
2. Go to collegiate triathlon nationals twice
3. Complete 2 marathons
4. Complete 2 half-marathons
5. Buy a $2,500 road bike/start cycling
6. Switch my major to Speech Pathology
7. Go to graduate school straight out of undergrad
8. Move to New Hampshire and work on a farm
9. Buy a coonhound named Sir Henry
10. Meet a guy as wonderful and perfect as Chris (Sorry to be cheesy, but I like him a lot)
11. Have a random french roommate who ends up being one of my best friends
12. End up hating Boston
13. End up realizing I love the midwest - who knew!?
14. Get hit by a car - so pleased I fulfilled a life long dream of being on the receiving end of that one, brilliant!
15. Buy a wet suit - if you would have told me I would buy a wet suit in college my senior year of highschool, I would have called you a loon
16. Get an A in a math class - Okay it was an algebra/trig class and it was pretty much a joke, BUT IT COUNTS.
17. Learn to drive a manual jeep...through many trials and tears, it finally happened
18. Go to the hospital twice - once for getting hit by a car and once for apparently no reason at all, but my tummy really hurt!
19. Completely change groups of friends about 3 times, and finally end up with the best group a girl could ask for, her very own triathlon team. They were there all along, I just needed to realize how much they all meant to me. And then there's Julbug, my very closest friend of all, who kind of came around by accident/walking many miles to class. The best friendships come out of nowhere!
20. Meet an English girl named Kristy at summer camp, stay in contact with her for 3 years, then have her come visit me from Europe for 2 weeks. I had no idea this kind of friendship was so rare because it came so easy, but turns out a lot of people don't keep in contact for people for years after they meet then randomly come visit! Then be asked to be a bridesmaid in her wedding - can't wait to put on my dress robes and practice my spells at her reception! WINGARDIUMMMM LEVIOSA!!!
Things I thought I would do in college that I didn't do:
1. Learn to cook - 22 and still have no idea! That's an accomplishment.
2. Go to Europe, or at least anywhere outside the U.S....yeah, still working on that one. I hear Utah is pretty exotic, though.
3. Live off campus - move out of BU dorms? I don't think so.
4. Live at home again
So turns out that my list that I did do is a LOT longer than the list I thought I would do that I didn't do. Talk about jumping ship and leaving the nest!
Okay, off for a bikeride.
Love love love,
me
Soooo graduating college....college graduation....college graduate.
Yeah, I actually don't have much to say. I came, I studied, I conquered.
My college career actually has rather nice bookends: Mom and dad drove me with all my stuff from Saint Louis to Boston in a trailblazer, and now, 4 years later, mom and dad are driving me from Boston to Saint Louis in a trailblazer. I love things that come full circle!
So instead of getting all sappy and talking about how much I learned and how much I love my friends and how much I'm going to miss college...
I thought I would compile a list of things I never thought I would do in college that I did:
1. Compete in 20+ triathlons
2. Go to collegiate triathlon nationals twice
3. Complete 2 marathons
4. Complete 2 half-marathons
5. Buy a $2,500 road bike/start cycling
6. Switch my major to Speech Pathology
7. Go to graduate school straight out of undergrad
8. Move to New Hampshire and work on a farm
9. Buy a coonhound named Sir Henry
10. Meet a guy as wonderful and perfect as Chris (Sorry to be cheesy, but I like him a lot)
11. Have a random french roommate who ends up being one of my best friends
12. End up hating Boston
13. End up realizing I love the midwest - who knew!?
14. Get hit by a car - so pleased I fulfilled a life long dream of being on the receiving end of that one, brilliant!
15. Buy a wet suit - if you would have told me I would buy a wet suit in college my senior year of highschool, I would have called you a loon
16. Get an A in a math class - Okay it was an algebra/trig class and it was pretty much a joke, BUT IT COUNTS.
17. Learn to drive a manual jeep...through many trials and tears, it finally happened
18. Go to the hospital twice - once for getting hit by a car and once for apparently no reason at all, but my tummy really hurt!
19. Completely change groups of friends about 3 times, and finally end up with the best group a girl could ask for, her very own triathlon team. They were there all along, I just needed to realize how much they all meant to me. And then there's Julbug, my very closest friend of all, who kind of came around by accident/walking many miles to class. The best friendships come out of nowhere!
20. Meet an English girl named Kristy at summer camp, stay in contact with her for 3 years, then have her come visit me from Europe for 2 weeks. I had no idea this kind of friendship was so rare because it came so easy, but turns out a lot of people don't keep in contact for people for years after they meet then randomly come visit! Then be asked to be a bridesmaid in her wedding - can't wait to put on my dress robes and practice my spells at her reception! WINGARDIUMMMM LEVIOSA!!!
Things I thought I would do in college that I didn't do:
1. Learn to cook - 22 and still have no idea! That's an accomplishment.
2. Go to Europe, or at least anywhere outside the U.S....yeah, still working on that one. I hear Utah is pretty exotic, though.
3. Live off campus - move out of BU dorms? I don't think so.
4. Live at home again
So turns out that my list that I did do is a LOT longer than the list I thought I would do that I didn't do. Talk about jumping ship and leaving the nest!
Okay, off for a bikeride.
Love love love,
me
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