Is it Time to Graduate Yet?

It's only the third day of classes but I wish it was the last day!  I am so ready to graduate.  Can we fast forward to this...

Actually, let me rephrase that.  I want to be done with classes but I don't feel like I'm quite ready to leave behind some parts of college life.  I'm really going to miss sleeping in until 9:30 on most weekdays, having my afternoons to myself, not paying adult-size bills, and being constantly surrounded by people my age.

I know there's a lot of other things I will probably miss, but I don't think I will fully grasp everything until much later on.  It might come a week, a month, or even a year after graduation.

There was a brief conversation that I had with a girl from one of my English classes sophomore year.  She was a senior and she was about to enroll in law school.  We were eating lunch at Subway and she couldn't stop talking about how excited she was to be moving on with her life.  I sat there looking at her beaming face, but I just couldn't relate.  I couldn't imagine wanting to leave college.  She told me that when I was a senior, I would understand.

At the time, graduation seemed like an eternity away and I was so grateful.  I felt like I had so much time to make decisions, dream about my future, and just live in the moment.

But now that I'm it's the last semester of senior year and I'm in that place, I know exactly what she means. I get it.