Despite my less than desirable situation, i.e. stuck at home for the last three weeks of senior year due to mono, 18 years of education are done. When it’s time to look back on all of the good and bad times, you would be surprised at what we have learned and continued to relearn since kindergarten.

So when it’s time to figure this all out mathematically (and we all know I pulled a solid C in calc), we have spent the last 151,680 hours of our lives as students-mornings, noons and nights. But before we jump too far ahead into our grown-up lives, it’s time to take a trip down memory lane.

Think of how far we have come. From days when we counted apples and oranges to learn easy math logic, to mastering our multiplication tables by figuring out what 12 times $1.50 is at the Grape on a Thursday night. We also are constantly practicing our division – if there are about 80-100 beers in a quarter keg then each girl, if there are ten girls, will only have to drink eight-to-ten beers. See, we still practice those simple rules.

We have learned the value of friendships – most often reliving middle school and high school disagreements in college when you thought those days were over. Boys still pick on girls and girls still kick guys – but now we know where to kick, and probably why we shouldn’t kick there.

We have learned, well I have learned, that the party’s going to end with the sixth shot going in and that you can never have too many excuses to drink.

I have learned that some people aren’t going to like what you have to say but you should still say it anyway- eventually they will get over it.

I have learned that as fast as high school flew by, college flew by even faster. Four years felt like four weeks so you know that these next three weeks are going to feel like three days.

But there are still a few things we can learn in these next weeks: drink as much as you can- you paid for senior week tickets, enjoy the booze. Oh, and for the Traffic Baron, please drink my share seeing as how I can’t participate. And now that most of the schoolwork is done, enjoy yourselves. These are the last three weeks before any of us will be considered alcoholics.

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