It was with no small measure of pride that I watched Brittany, one of my amazing roommates and a very good friend for the last three and a half years, walk across the stage this morning and receive her college diploma. She is officially a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and it is incredible to me that she has already reached this point in her life. Where did the time go?
I can still remember so much about freshman year -- sitting in the hallway on edge as we waited for our sorority t-shirts (telling us which sorority we'd be a part of), suffering from unrequited crushes on upperclassmen, Tuesday lunch dates at Couch Express (best bread bowl soup ever), getting all gussied up for girls night dinners in Bricktown, painfully awkward sorority date parties, our trips to the gym at 11 p.m. (we were crazy), freaking out because we had to write a five page paper, the point system we developed to attempt escape from the Freshman Fifteen (10 pts for going to the gym, etc... you needed to earn 20 before you got to get dessert at the caf).
We came into university life all doe-eyed and ambitious, and while I think we leave with a little less naivety and unsupportable idealism, we definitely leave with the same healthy dose of ambition -- grounded in reality and the successes we've all seen over the last four years.
I am so proud of my roommates. Not just Brittany, but all four of them. And when it's time for the rest of us to walk across that stage, I think we'll be ready. Like the commencement speaker at Brittany's ceremony said today, we've been trained well. OU and our lives here have perfectly prepared us for that moment when we shake hands, take pictures, and hold that little square of paper that tells us we are officially ready for the real world. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
This made me tear up FYI...I can't believe it's already over.
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