Slipping through My Fingers

Coming up in 29 days (May 9th) is Auburn's commencment ceremony, and as hopefully anyone reading this knows I am a graduating senior this year!! I could not be more excited and we all know I love a good countdown so I've been trying to get one together over the past two weeks in order to lead up to this monumental event! I have, however, not been able to get it off the ground. So I ask myself, why? Well today I think I got a lead to that question, allow me to explain.

Some of you may also be aware that this fall I will be attending the University of Southern Mississippi's Graduate School for Marriage and Family Therapy. Also, very exciting!! So yesterday I set off with my parents to Hattiesburg, MS to find an apartment...good news, I found one! But on the way home, my mom said the most heart breaking thing, "the next time we make this trip back from Mississippi, we'll be leaving you there." Now to some of you who are already hours from home, this may seem like no big deal, but for a person who has only ever lived 30 minutes up the road from home, it is.

When she said that though, it really hit me how bittersweet these next 4 months will be for me. I've been so excited counting down to graduation and party planning that I didn't realize in 2 months I'll no longer be a resident of Auburn and in 29 short days, I'll no longer be a student here! Wow, this is a time in my life I never thought would end and here it is, coming in less than a month! I still can't wait to graduate and finally have a Bachelor's degree, but I wish I could have called a stop time in the last couple of years and really savored my time at Auburn.

In my attempts to create a countdown to graduation I was going to countdown my favorite memories of Auburn as a student, but couldn't find any huge, pinpoint moments for this list (other than winning a national championship). I've decided though, that is how it's supposed to work. There were no grand occasions that made me fall in love with Auburn and the people I've met here, just a million little things with extrodinary friends and an amazing Auburn family that I could never in my life explain. Like learning to do the soulja boy in the sorority dorm, or stalking the US Band for a month straight, or the creation of Isabella, or the inception of wing night! These small reasons are the big reason I can't possibly create a countdown, and don't really want to try. My time here has been absolutely unforgettable and I'm glad I get to finish it off with that glory walk across Pat Dye Field.

Lastly, I remember as a freshman that my pi chi leader gave me a list of '150 things to do at Auburn' and I thought I had all the time in the world to complete these. I have done 80 in the last 5 years because I kept telling myself that I had plenty of time. Well it is now abundantly clear that I have NO time left! If anyone is interested in helping me complete any of the remaining 70, I would love to try my best to finish it!

"Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
...
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers..."