I just had my last first day of undergrad! Granted, I have another three semesters of graduate school before I get my MSW, but I have officially started my last semester at UMBC! It’s actually quite bittersweet. As I was walking to that first class, I couldn’t help but think about how much UMBC has became my home. Really, it is.  Walking along Academic Row, I remember everything that has happened over the last four years, and I know I’m definitely going to miss it. Don’t get me wrong – it is SO exciting to be ending one chapter of my life and starting another. But I’m still going to miss it. Especially because most of my sorority sisters are a year or two younger than me, so they’re not all graduating with me. But that does mean I’ll be back to visit them. I’m also only going to be living about a mile off campus for the next year, so I’ll be able to visit old friends and teachers whenever I want. So… advice to anyone else who is graduating (whether it be from high school, undergrad, or grad school) or to anyone who is moving from one point in their life to another – don’t forget, as Semisonic says in “Closing Time” (and is quoted in the wonderful movie “Friends With Benefits”), “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” :)

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