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Currently Playing 12 Memories By Travis see related

In a few weeks... 

A year has past and now we stand on the brink of returning to a world where we are surrounded by the paradox of everything yet nothing being the same. In a few weeks we will reluctantly give our hugs and, fighting the tears, say goodbye to the people who were once just names on a sheet of paper to return to people that we hugged and fought tears to say goodbye to before we ever left. We will leave our best friends to return to our best friends. We will go back to places we came from and go back to the same things we did last summer and every summer before. We will come into town on that same familiar road, and even thought it has been months, it will seem like only yesterday.

As you walk into your old bedroom, every emotion will pass through you as you reflect on the way your life has changed and the person you have become. You suddenly realize that the things that were most important to you a year ago don't seem to matter so much anymore, and the things you hold highest now, no one at home will completely understand. Who will you call first? Where are you going to work? Who will be at the party Saturday night? What has everyone been up to? Who from school will you keep in touch with? How long before you actually start missing people bargaining in without calling or knocking? Who will get breadsticks with you at three in the morning? How long until you adjust to sleeping in a room by yourself, or how long before you realize your three best friends aren't in the bed next to your room?

Then you realize how much things have changed, you realize the hardest part of college is balancing the two completely different worlds you now live in, trying desperately to hold on to everything all the while trying to figure out what you have to leave behind. In the matter of one day's traveling time, we will leave our world of living next door to our best friends, walking across campus to eat, instant messenger, 8:00 classes, and perpetual procrastination to a world that will seem foreign to us despite the fact that we have lived in it for nineteen years.

But it is different now... We now know the meaning of true friendship. We know whom we have kept in touch with over the past year and whom we hold dearest to our hearts. We've left our high school worlds to deal with the real world. We have had our hearts broken, we've fell in love, we've helped our best friends through the toughest times of their lives, something their even best friends at home couldn't be there for. We've stayed up all night just to be there for a friend. We've partied the night away, doing stupid stuff, but we were always there for each other afterwards. There have been times when we've felt so helpless being hours away from home when we know our families or friends needed us most, and there are times when we know we have made a difference.

A few weeks from now we will leave. A few weeks from now we take down our pictures, and pack up our clothes. No more going next door to do nothing for hours on end. We will leave our friends whose random emails and phone calls will bring us to laughter and tears this summer. We will take our memories and dreams and put them away for now, saving them for our return to this world.

A few weeks from now from now we will arrive. A few weeks from now from now we will unpack our bags and have dinner with our families. We will drive over to our best friend's house and do nothing for hours on end. We will return to the same friends whose random emails and phone calls have brought us laughter and tears over the past year. We will unpack old memories and dreams that have been put away for the past year.

A few weeks from now we will dig deep inside to find the strength and conviction to adjust to change and still keep each other close. And somehow, in someway, we will find our place between these two worlds.

In a few weeks.... are you ready?

Currently Playing Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast) By Jeff Marx, Robert Lopez, John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q see related

The randomness of tonight... I've highly enjoyed it.  It was my goal to spend the entire night studying and working on my rough draft that's due Monday.  I went over to Shannon's room to borrow some CDs.  A little bit later she came over to my room to get some studying done.  Unfortunately, we didn't so much study.  Oh the conversations we've had that we can only seem to have with each other.  I still enjoy my ideas for eliminating AIDS and fixing some of the pregnancy issues in this country   Us two brilliant kids decided that we haven't screamed in a really really long time and it was time to change that.  We decided to find some secluded park.  On the way to the car we ran into Brad and his loud bike, ha, it ammused it.  We were rebellious and entered the park after sunset  and screamed our heads off.. it was very liberating.  Then back to the room for more laughter and talking.  What would we do without each other??  The randomness of tonight has made me very happy.  I want to roadtrip back to DC to visit a certain doctor  and I suppose Tyler too   I suppose I should study and do laundry now... boo!!  At least there's a week from tonight to look forward too.

Peace,
Mandy

Currently Playing A Walk to Remember By Various Artists Someday We'll Know see related

I know, I suck at updating this thing.  Things are going really well right now.  It's rather odd... for the past 2 weeks I've experienced little to no stress   After much debate about whether to take calc based physics, or go to Harlaxton, I've made the decision to spend a semester overseas.  I think it's going to be amazing.  Yay for half of my floor and a good chunk of the Bio department going at the same time!  I'm super excited about classes next semester.  It's going to be tough but Bo and Brad (along with several other people I can't think of) will be taking the same classes.  AND I get to lab assist for 107 with Kacie... how excited am I?!   In a month I will be back in F-town... I hope some other people will be there too.  I'm sure I'm going to make several trips to see the OSU kids staying down there this summer.  Hopefully I'll be taking calc at UT and getting in my clincial experience.  Then at the end of July I'll head back here for a Field Botany class in the Rockies!

Basically right now I'm just loving life.  Good friends and good times.  Although, I've decided that I haven't taken nearly enough pictures this semester..... sooooo I'm going to go picture crazy for the last month.  Formal and Greek Week are fast approaching... should be a great time

That's all for now.  Peace

Someday We'll Know

Ninety miles outside Chicago
can't stop driving
I don't know why
so many questions
need an answer
two years later
you're still on my mind

Whatever happen to Amelia Earhart
who holds the stars up in the sky
is true love just once in a life time
did the captain of titanic cry

(chorus)
someday we'll know
if love can move a mountain
someday we'll know
why the sky is blue
someday we'll know
why I wasn't meant for you

Does anybody know the way to Atlantis
or what the wind says when she cries
I'm speeding by the place that i met you
for the ninety-seventh time... tonight

(chorus)

someday we'll know
why Sampson loved Deliah
one day I'll go
dancing on the moon
someday you'll know
that I was the one for you
(yeah yeah yeah yeah)

I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow
I watched the stars crash in the sea
if I could ask God just one question
why aren't you here with me... tonight

(chorus)

Currently Reading Organic Chemistry with Online Learning Center and Learning by Model CD-ROM By Francis A Carey see related

Hmmm I guess I have time for a quick entry since I don't feel like memorizing the information I should be.  Classes are classes.  Instead of having one class consume my life like last semester, I have 4 classes doing that.  Shannon and I went out Friday night.  Such a great time!  Trip to Kentucky to the bars... back to downtown E-ville, Barnes & Nobel with the hot guys :) then off to the Frat parties!  The next day I found out the rumor was I was completely wasted.  That makes me laugh since the only thing I had to drink was a Sierra Mist at B&N.  I guess that's what you get for being out dancing ;)  Last night I was a contestant on The Price is Right... Muses style.  Today I saw Ray Ray (aka Dr. Lutgring) at the gym  that made my day right there haha.  Alright, I guess it's back to the studying for me (notice what I'm reading... sad day... but Ray Ray gets me through lol)

I have pictures... yay!

Mandy