Oof, it’s my last semester as an undergrad. This seemed like an eternity away like… I want to say two weeks ago? It certainly feels like it’s been about two weeks since I got to Edinburgh.
That’s not to say that nothing much has changed— when I look back on who I was back in first year and what was on the docket of Things I Was Up To (a kind of retrospection I do often, probably too often if my occasional dreams about missing my college application deadlines are any indication) it feels like it has been ages.
When I came here I was seventeen, ecstatic that I was here doing the thing I had said I would do all the way back in seventh grade when I was asked where I’d like to go to college and I said ‘Scotland!’ for reasons I don’t actually remember, nervous as hell and missing my family even though I had been intermittently trying to move out for fifteen years (story for another time), and wondering what the heck i was going to do and be on my own.
Now I’m (gods all willing) a few months away from graduation and while so many things are different, a lot are still the same. I still miss my family, I’m still really happy to be here, and I’m still wondering who I’m going to be and what I’m going to do. That’s part of why I’m starting this blog, to record the things I’m doing and being.
So, here’s to an exciting semester and a good road ahead. May it be full of new understanding, old friends, and accomplished goals. Most importantly, may this semester be kind.
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