“This project brought us into the real world. It taught me a lot more than just the concept of advertising.”
Kate Monagan, Business Administration
May
My roommate packed up her side of the room at the beginning of May and started to move her belongings home. It was really sad, and I got depressed watching her take down the drawings and cards we'd made each other and pack them up in a box. I called my father while she was doing that and figured out a day he would be coming up to help bring my stuff back home. I didn't want to do it. Sometimes I feel guilty for loving it here so much, I really do. I love my home in Massachusetts, but everything I have ever dreamed of having in my life, I have here now as well.
Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve feeling this amazing about where I've chosen to go to school. Many of my friends hate their schools and have transferred or are planning on transferring in the fall. Then there's me, the girl whose face lights up at the thought of even going back to school.
It's going to be hard going back to a life of restrictions. I won't be able to wake up my roommate when I can't sleep at 2:00 in the morning to go to Denny's. We can't lay in bed with the shades pulled until 7 p.m. on the weekends doing “homework,” an event which normal people would call watching a movie. Our standards for how we should be behaving will return to us when we leave. We'll walk away from this year with so many memories.
My friends and I have yet to talk about leaving here because for so long it's always been “a few months away,” but now its here and we have to face it. It's funny how we've all become so attached to each other so quickly. I guess that's what happens your first year of college. You spend weeks meeting people, hoping the friendships you form with them will last. Mine did and I'm lucky for that.
During the week of finals, I also became really sick and eventually ended up in the Emergency Room. I hated being away from my parents and being sick. I felt useless and frustrated because everything was coming on the week of finals. My friends were there to support me and help me with whatever I needed and it felt nice to know that people care about me. Stressors from other areas began to set it as well. Finals were here and I had to make it through the week. There was no way around it. I was really upset that my last week of school was full or stress, and not spending time with my friends.
May Tips
Finals are here. Let your student call you. All free time will be spent studying.
Offer to help your student move out. Let him or her pack by themselves, but let he or she know that you are willing to help him or her move out.
Everyone is stressed out. Don't get mad if we snap at you. We're all emotional over leaving our friends.
