Dear Freshman, ENJOY IT. Love, Me.

My little sister just left for her freshman year of college. Barf. Only six years ago, she was a little twelve-year-old, helping to move me in. And now, she's OFF. 

I just closed out my Facebook after scrolling through some pictures from college. Freshman year is, without a doubt, one of the most fun years in so many people's lives and I'd give anything to go back. Thinking of all the memories she will make this year, I'm pretty jealous.

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You will sit at the campus cafeteria for five hours on a Sunday afternoon with a dozen friends, staying for lunch AND dinner. You will fling food across the table off a spoon and catch it in a cup. You'll grab the soft serve on the way out and play basketball with the rotten apples on the way to the dorms.

You will make a little 12 x 15 foot room your home with your new roommate, who would quickly become your best friend. 

You will sneak back from the sweaty frat party into your dorm room and hope not to wake the RA. You will order a pizza at 2am and eat it on the floor, listening to country music. 

You will create a ridiculously large (and ridiculously bad) Mickey Mouse when it snows for that long weekend and will invite over ten friends to watch one of those stupid scary movies. You will all cram on the two twin extra long mattresses that were lofted eight feet off the ground.

You will make friends with some upperclassman and hope his house is "conveniently available" when you want to have a party. 

You will plan a beach day with all of your new friends and then get insanely sunburnt because Mommy didn't tell you to wear sunscreen. 

You will think it's a really great idea to dress up as a mustard bottle for Halloween. In fact, you'll think a lot of the ideas you have in college are good...in that moment.

You will take the cheesiest Christmas pictures with your girlfriends and save the Christmas card for years. 

You might even meet the love of your life, whether you know it then or not. 

You'll make the best of memories with the best of people. So, enjoy each and every second of it. It flies.

"Don't blink; life goes faster than you think." 
- Kenny Chesney