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\u201cThey say you were something in those formative years.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n This is my last blog that I will be creating while here in Ann Arbor for this academic year. This year has been a rollercoaster ride for me. I remember during my rough first weeks of the academic year back in August and September 2021, I wished that if I closed my eyes, I would open them and be here, where I am now, at the end of the year and heading home. It didn\u2019t work, thank goodness. I would have missed so much if that had happened, but the year seems to have gone by just as quickly as if I had.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHold onto nothing as fast as you can,\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Time sure does fly when you\u2019re having fun, doesn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWell, still, pretty good year,\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Here\u2019s to the karaoke nights where I sang until I lost my voice. Here\u2019s to the yoga breaks my friend and I would take to break up our studying. Here\u2019s to all the times I wanted to cry but didn\u2019t have the time or energy to spare. Here\u2019s to the windows-down drives to McDonalds, even though it was freezing outside. Here\u2019s to sitting on my friend\u2019s floor, talking with her so late into the night that I nearly fall asleep there. Here\u2019s to achieving my high-school goal of becoming a tour guide for my university. Here\u2019s to the therapist appointments that helped me realize that here – right now – is what my ultimate form of happiness can feel like. Here\u2019s to calling my housemates every time I accidentally lock myself out. Here\u2019s to forgetting to journal but being able to keep up with this blog, so when I look back at my sophomore year of college I can see a bit into my mind. Here\u2019s to me and my friends making cardboard cutouts of celebrities with our leftover printing money. Here\u2019s to making new friends and finding my people. Here\u2019s to never really being alone, even when I\u2019m across the country from my friends. Here\u2019s to finishing my sophomore year at the best university in the world. Here\u2019s to coming back in four months. Here\u2019s to the present, and here\u2019s to the future.<\/span><\/p>\n