Ode to sophomore year!

Goodbye, goodbye! I am soooo done with this year. Okay, mostly just this semester (Fall '07 rocked my socks) but still I am definitely mentally exhausted and more ready than ever to leave school behind for a few months and just chillax. I look back at this year and all I see is change. Change and improvement. And that is good.

Ode to: love, and chilling thoughts of the future, and even chillier nights in the library at 4 am; frustration and anxiety over school, jobs, internships, work study, boys, teachers, advisors, presidents, friends; happiness and jubilation over all these things and more; dressing up for formals only to get sweaty and sore dancing the night away; driving to Harris Teeter at 1 am for Twizzlers and munchies; mumbles under the breah to similarly disgruntled and aggravated roomies; long walks on campus with a special someone; bated breath, rushed words, light-headedness, easy conversation, crooked smiles, everlasting friendship.

Did I mention how monumental this year was? Monumental and memorable.

I found these amazing kids, my fellow CRU leaders:

I aced Biology Research and Writing with a killer review paper and oral presentation on "Adaptations to Wintry Trauma in Perennial Softwoods":

I made more friends than I ever have before:

And grown in my relationship with Christ on turbo-speed. Even if it is far from perfect, I'm still more satisfied with and dependent on the Lord than ever.

Delightful, stressful, ever-mindful, scrumptrulescent, savory, tender, juicy, dramatic, comedic, laugh-out-loud, crying-into-shoulders, prasing-God, greensward-hopping, sophomore year.