As I type, I just got
out of my last non-shower shoes wearing shower for the next few months.
*sigh*
Tomorrow (today as
you read this post) I head off for my sophomore year at Furman! I honestly
cannot believe I just typed sophomore. I still feel like sophomore in high
school at heart. And it doesn’t help when you get mistaken as an 8th and
9th grader on a daily basis (another story for another
time). The car is packed and my room is a disaster.
I have mixed feelings
about leaving tomorrow, don’t get me wrong, I literally am counting down the
hours, minutes, seconds until I am reunited with all of my fabulous friends at
Furman and experience all the great adventures that await me back at school,
but I don’t think it will ever be easy saying bye to my family, home, and puppy.
I have moved so many times and in some ways I feel
like I’m always packing and unpacking from something. My home in Cary will be
the longest home my family has lived in since I was in elementary school so we
have all started to really feel attached. I am the first person to admit that I’m a major homebody. I enjoy staying home and hanging out in Nike shorts and a big
t shirt and watching movies all day. Home is one place
where I feel like I can take a deep breath, and I think
that is one of the reasons I’m a little sad to leave. I know when I go back
to Furman, I go from 0 to 100, and all of a sudden I’m so busy with school,
clubs, school, friends, school, and occasionally sleep. There is absolutely no time for
breathing. So it’s nice to come home and finally be able to fully relax. I’m
already stressed about the stress I know is coming my way (does that even make
sense?).
This summer was been
much needed. I got to recover from an amazing stressful school year,
catch up on life, visit family/ friends, go to NYC, see my best friend D from Hawaii twice
(!!!!), intern with a fabulous company, cross some of the things off my to-do list that have been there forever, work on my blog, and catch some much needed
z’s.
And now as the hours of
my summer are down to single digits, I can only think of everything I didn’t
get to this summer. I think the uncrossed things on my ever growing to-do
list is what makes me hesitant to go back to school. There always seems to be one more errand I could have completed, one more email I could have answered, or one
more binder I could have made to prepare me the slightest bit more for sophomore year. But, I have to face reality and accept the fact that sometimes
you can’t always be 100% prepared. I have to be realistic and remind myself
that one errand isn’t going to change your sophomore
year experience.
Sometimes you can never be fully ready for a new
adventure. You just have to jump (ie. pushed)
into the pool head first ready to experience all the upcoming adventures
life has in store for you!
Sophomore year, whether I'm ready or not, here I come!
Remember,
xoxo
Shannon
I absolutely love this!! I moved in yesterday to start my Sophomore year and as excited as I am, it's always hard to leave home! Good luck on your move in and with the semester!
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Thanks so much for sharing. It's nice knowing I am not the only one that would rather have some more at home time. As you said yes I'm excited about seeing my friends again (and all the adventures) but I am one to already be stressing about the stress as well and I don't even start classes until Monday.
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I can totally relate to how you feel! Cheers to another great year of college!
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Totally didn't know you were from Cary, I'm a RDU native myself!! Good luck in your sophomore year - can't wait to see what all it holds!
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