Jan 24

I had a slight freak-out the other day when I was sitting on my futon going through all of my pictures that I have stored on my computer. As I was going through my sophomore year album it dawned on me that I'm halfway through my sophomore year of college.... Wait.. WHAT? It was the weirdest, most uncomfortable epiphany I've had in a long time and it made me just sit and stare into the abyss for a dramatic amount of time (I like being dramatic). Obviously I've known that I am in the middle of my sophomore year but I haven't really had the time to let my mind catch up to that ugly fact. When people say that college goes by fast, they ain't lying. I feel like I just moved into Pi Phi a month ago and it seems like our Amurrica sponto was just last week. Looking back at the 1,082 pictures that I have already snapped throughout this school year (yes... 1,082) is such a bittersweet thing. I'm extremely pleased with how my first semester of my college sophomore year turned out and it made me wonder about after I graduate, if I'll be able to look back at my album titled "College" and be just as pleased with how I spent my time as I am right now with my first semester. The other night I was in an extremely mopey mood but luckily got talked into going out by some of my friends. Theme of the party: paint. It ended up being one of the most memorable nights I've had at college. The way we kept describing it was "the party that you always imagined would be like in college". There was glow in the dark paint everywhere and people from all different houses together jumping up and down dancing all over the place. To make it even more of a classic college party, there were trashcans full of cheap beer that were used not for drinking, but to be shaken up and then sprayed everywhere. I can't think of one person that wasn't having the time of their life or wasn't sporting a full blown grin. This is a picture of my friend Demri "raging in Ray-Bans" (as she kept saying all night), that I took of her during one of our escapes to the bathroom to get 10 minutes of much needed elbow room. 

After my little epiphany I've been telling myself to always remember to make the most of every day that I am here at school. That doesn't mean go out every single night, but its a time that I feel like I need to step out of my comfort zone every now and again and make as many moments as memorable as I can. It is sad to think that almost two years of college have already flown by, but whats awesome is that I still have two entire ones left.