When We Grow Up

Her Wants:

His Wants:

Kids can dream, right?

I Thought Growing Up Would Feel Different

Finals week has begun and I am sitting here realizing that this Saturday, May 8th I will be graduating.

Growing up, when I thought about being a college graduate, I thought I would be smarter or feel older. I feel neither. But I am relieved to have this chapter over. I love to learn, but it will be nice to experience life without school since it is all I have known.

Graduating is bitter-sweet. I have loved Utah State University and college life. Sometimes, when I walk on campus, I think of things that I will miss about this chapter of my life. Here they are, in no particular order:

• Ambassadors - I have {loved} ambassadors. It really was the best part of my experience at Utah State...if only I could have been groomed to be a professional and remained an ambassador for life!
• The preacher outside of the TSC
• The professor who rides his unicycle around
• Koch Scholars - 2nd best experience of USU
• The beauty of campus. Everytime I am up on campus I get a rewarding sense of nature. It really is the most beautiful campus
• Living in the basement of Rex & Edna (90 and 87 years old). We love them so much and will miss talking to them each day. I will not miss the 2x2 shower that constantly springs up mold, changes temperature whenever it wants, and won't let me bend down to shave my legs.
  
• Learning - I LOVE TO LEARN
• Friends - so many dear friendship made, lost, rekindled. I will never forget my "bosom" friends
• The garage that Sam Nef and I lived in and all the memories that accompany it
• Basketball games - can't get any better
• Football games - could get better
• Teaching fitness classes to students
• Truly becoming myself and finding out who I am and what I want
• Aggie Ice Cream - Blue mint I love you!
• Giving Tours
• My nose hairs freezing as I walk to class in the winter. Then my nose becoming a faucet as it thaws.
  
• Getting stopped by the missionaries all the time! Do I not look like a member?
  
• Becoming a TRUE AGGIE
• BECOMING AN ULTIMATE AGGIE
• BEING ABLE TO FINISH IT ALL OFF WITH MY BEST FRIEND AND LOVER and GET TO GRADUATE AND WALK ACROSS THE STAGE WITH HIM!

There are millions more, but I didn't want to make the list too long. Goodbye USU. You are such a large part of my life and my heart. I will miss you and will be a fan for life! As Jen Putnam says, "Utah State Makes Dreams come True!"