I often find myself wishing that time would stop, or at the very least that things would shift into slow motion for at least a week or maybe five minutes.
When they say that your time in college flies by fast, they aren’t lying.
It’s scary yet exciting to know that in the same amount of time that I have already spent at Hope, I will be leaving and venturing off into the real world.
Here are seven things I wonder as I think about leaving Hope in two years:
- What’s the real world really like?
- Let’s be honest, we all wonder this.
- Are there other places like Hope?
- I like the welcoming and supportive atmosphere that Hope has, but will I be able to find that somewhere else?
- Will I find the same faith community?
- This is one of my biggest worries about leaving Hope. I’ll have to venture out and find a faith community, perhaps even create one, instead of having one built and placed right in my lap.
- Will my best friends stay my best friends?
- I’m really crossing my fingers for this one. I know some pretty great people here and I hope they’re my friends for life.
- Where will I live?
- Will I go back home? Will I make somewhere new my home? The world may never know. Until I graduate.
- What will my job be?
- Really though. I have my plans but the more I talk to alumni, the more I realize that you often don’t end up doing what you thought you would.
- Can I just stay here a little bit longer?
- The answer is, yes, you can stay here two more years. Maybe it’ll be enough, but right now I love Hope and wouldn’t trade it for any other place.
I’m sure that incoming freshmen and graduating seniors are also wondering some of these things. Being a sophomore in the middle of it all can make the end seem blind, like it’s never coming. But it is and I have so many thoughts about it.
Thanks for reading,
Brooke