Auf Wiedersehen.

The semester is coming to a close. Teachers are preparing for finals and assigning final projects. I have been thinking what a chore it will be to pack everything up and head home. Clothes, sheets, shoes, coats, towels, not to mention personal items, printers, boxes upon boxes will be filed out of the dorms in a few short weeks. In a way, leaving here is similar to graduating high school. We will be leaving the friends that we made here and travelling to different places. We will have no more classes here at ISU until the fall.

However, this also means no more late night study sessions. No more stress over tests and finals. No more papers. No more blogs. I feel a twinge of nostalgia as I think that this is the last blog. However, I do not think I will miss it that much. This blog was fun while it lasted, but the constant deadlines and regulations were annoying. While it was nice to be able to record all my thoughts and grievances of the week, it was frustrating to have rules.

One other thing that I will not miss is all the commenting. Two comments on everyone’s blog did not seem like that much until I started doing it. No offense to anyone out there, you guys all had great blogs, but I hated going through and finding things to comment on. I would rather have just read them. I would suggest that next year, the comments are not mandatory. If I had to plan it, I would just pick one blog to read on Mondays, then alternate which blogs were read. This would let everyone hear other people’s blogs, but without the mind numbing process of the forty plus comments.

I hope anyone who has read this blog has gotten something out of it, even if it was just a good laugh. I encourage those incoming freshmen to not be discouraged. The second semester is tough, but it only lasts a couple months. Work hard, and blog if you need to express yourself. Don’t go paint the stairwells, though, because it costs everybody a dollar each. Most of all, have fun. You only get one try at your freshman year.