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\u201cI know you’ve always been out of your head,\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
All of a sudden, I only have a few short weeks until I return home for the summer. At the beginning of the school year, I viewed summer break as something to look forward to – a return to my own room, my home, my family, and some stability. With each passing day, however, I become more and more sad to know that, soon, I\u2019ll have to say a temporary goodbye to Ann Arbor and all of my friends here.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOut of my head, I sang,\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n I don\u2019t sit around dwelling on the fact that soon I\u2019ll move out of the place I\u2019ve spent the majority of the past 8 months and be hours away from my best friends, and this allows me to make the most of the time I do have left. I am only halfway done with my time pursuing my undergraduate degree, and there is plenty to look forward to over the course of the next two years. However, the end of this academic semester comes with sadness – many of my friends are graduating soon – but I am happy excited for them and excited to see all of the amazing things they go on to do after graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd I wonder, when I sing along with you,\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Here\u2019s to having a good rest of the semester, to focusing on savoring every moment I have left here, to studying hard for my exams, to not procrastinating my final papers, to spending as much time as possible with my friends, and to knowing that I have plenty to come back to when I return to Ann Arbor in August.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf everything could ever feel this real forever?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Ann Arbor – my second home – and my friends – my second family – I will see you again before I know it, and I look forward to all of our future adventures!<\/span><\/p>\n