This post is brought to you by mixed emotions. This week, it is the first day of my senior year of college, as well as the first day my sweet little interns arrive on campus for orientation. As much as I love college, I’m dying to graduate. Having worked 40 hours for months now, I’m so job and career focused that I’ve lost sight of returning to the job of student. Thankfully, I’m only taking a handful of classes (many of which are online), but I still have a few requirements left to finish out both of my degree programs. Aside from my equivalent senior thesis and a research methods course, I have an art class and a natural science class (?!?) remaining to fulfill my requirements. I haven’t taken a real exam in almost three years. Can you picture me sitting in a classroom with a bunch of freshmen to take an astronomy exam in the spring? Please no. Just assign me a 10-page paper, I could write in a day.
It’s hard not to mention the fact that campus almost looks nothing like it did when I started here as a freshman. There is TOO much construction overtaking a ton of campus — but it will definitely be awesome when it is completed. With more than 10 new residence halls, new dining options, and the largest Starbucks on any college campus and in the state of Kentucky, UK is definitely becoming a pioneer for its incoming students and proving to be true competition throughout the SEC. While campus looks pretty swanky, I hope the academics and the quality of faculty on campus do not fall to the wayside in the process.
I’m definitely ready to graduate, but I’m likewise catching all the feels and nostalgia in every sense of the word as freshmen move into their dorms for the first time. While I have no desire to stand around at info sessions or in the basements of shambly houses for fraternity parties, there is something so exciting and special about being a college freshman that has definitely been beaten out of you by the time senior year arrives. Despite dressing up for my jobs each day, I have already been mistaken for a freshman on campus multiple times. Here’s to forever looking 17 and pretending I don’t have to face the real world in 8 short months!
Get the Look:
Dress // Old Navy // $10
Scarf // Forever 21 // $8
Boots // Old Navy // $30
Bracelets and rings // Pandora
& my sweet Winston, the best accessory of all time!
