Hey Everyone!
I’m back for a second round of the
SMSU blog! The opportunity to do this has given me the ability to sit back and
look at my journey through SMSU and where it will take me. I am just a few
short months away from walking across the stage at graduation and shaking the President’s
hand with my degree in the other hand. As many have probably said before me and
others will continue to say long after I’ve left, enjoy your time in college
because it flies by.
Freshman year I arrived on campus
wide eyed and scared if I made the right life choice. I was quick to find out
it was. From walking into Sweetland Hall to my RA’s smile from ear to ear and
the excitement in her voice that this was going to be the best time of your
life, to later meeting my roommate where we had enough in common to keep things
interesting but different enough to balance each other. Little did I know these
among others would be lifelong relationships in the making.
Through the middle years of college
it was all about finding what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. This was
something I spend sleepless nights thinking about, but over time you find your
strengths and passions in life. So if you think you’re the only one in that
boat, look around there are other rowing right along with you. Don’t give up!
Keep pushing forward and it will find you. Personally, I switched a few times
before finally settling into Sports Management, which keeps opening doors that
I would have never thought would have been possible.
Senior year was here before long
and then I blinked and it’s half way over. At the start I made an effort to
live every experience that I haven’t yet to this point. Meet as many people as
I could and make those memories where 20 years down the line we’ll look back
and say “Remember that one time?” The real world is right around the corner, am
I nervous? Who wouldn’t be? Life is about to really start and I’m about to put
to work everything I have learned since I started Kindergarten. I can honestly
say that it’s an excited nervousness, because it’s a new fresh chapter in my
life.
Coming to Southwest was one of the
most difficult disc ions I had made in my life to that point. Over time I could
slowly see it was the right choice. Through the course of my four years here I
really found out who I was and what I was capable of. I found out that you
don’t have to do it all by yourself because at the end of the day we are all a
family. I learned what it’s like to be a
part of tradition that is invested in its students and the future. Most
importantly, I learned what it means to be a Mustang.
