Coffee with Katie

 

It’s hard to believe that there’s only twelve days until classes end. It’s also hard to believe that in twelve days and then some, the campus will be empty and for four months, we will all go our separate ways.

The last few weeks of the spring semester always seem to be crazy; jam-packed with events and good-byes and let’s-celebrate-our-achievements-with-free-T-shirts-and-big-award-ceremonys.

In college, each year is incredibly different from the next. We enter as naïve freshman with enormous expectations, (FREEDOM! HOOK-UPS! PARTIES!) to which we may or may not receive a rude awakening.

As a sophomore, we come back thinking the year will be the same wild-ride as the previous, and find ourselves buckling down a bit more. Most of us find junior year to be filled with work and questions about the future (maybe a little bit mundane, too?)

As for senior year, I’ll let you know what happens when I get there.

Each of the years we spend here forces us to grow and make life-changing realizations, about both ourselves and the world around us. I cannot say that anyone I knew coming into MCLA is the same as they are now, and that is not to say they have changed for the worse.

I have this theory, though. (Ready for it?) I am absolutely convinced that, by senior year, our college experience comes full circle. No, I don’t mean that you will move back into Hoosac Hall with mom and dad and your kid brother, wearing every MCLA item you own all at once again.

But, for those to-be seniors like myself out there, don’t you have high expectations for your fourth and final year in the same way that you did as a freshman?

Chances are, you will re-connect with the friends you lost touch with before you walk back out the gates, and chances are you will pick up a few of the pieces that you dropped along the way during your MCLA career. There are reasons that you had an initial attraction to the people, places and activities that you did four years ago.

Who knows? Maybe I’m way off target. I’ll let you know come September. For now, though, I’m signing off. See you in the fall, as The Beacon Editor-in-Chief.