Good Morning, Walla Walla!

You know what is one of the best feelings in the world? It is not even that I am done, but that I didn't have to wake up to an alarm today. I didn't have to reach over and press the snooze on my alarm that sounds like a bomb is going off, and it feels great.

So last night around 11pm, I submitted my final Encounter's paper and I am officially done with freshman year. It's been a good year, Whitman. You've treated me well. We've had our ups and downs and our fits, but overall you've been so great to me. You're taking all my money and making me poor, but its all worth it in the end. The education, the fun times, the amazing people are worth much more than all the money in the world.

The year has gone by too fast, faster than any year I remember. Literally, but also figuratively. Sometimes I feel like I've not changed, and other times I feel like I have grown exponentially. And by grown I don't just mean 15 lbs. of freshman love, but also mentally.

From a scramble, to sharing my life story outside in a lightning storm, to waiting 2 1/2 hours in a line to buy two posters, to the numerous campus band concerts, to the numerous dance parties, to rearranging the laundry room, to making mochi, to making various vegan desserts, to shopping at Goodwill, to indulging at Brights for those kinds of days, to spontaneously running the beer mile, to signing myself up for the trip to Sweden, to late nights with my roommate and my best friends, to a spontaneous trip to KWCW, to freezing in the fountain after Theta formal, to joining Kappa Alpha Theta, to insect and plant hunting, to nights under the starry sky, to the snow and also to the sun, to soy nut butter and soy ice cream, Whitman I think I have fallen in love.