Sunday, March 20th, 2005
where the hell did 2nd semester GO?

I know all the first years are saying this, and all the upper years warned us we'd be saying it, but damn it I've gotta say it again anyway: this school year has gone by so fast it makes my head spin to think about it. First semester...not so much, but it seems like I blinked at some point in January and suddenly it's the end of March and another set of finals are coming up, and soon the days of warm breezes, short skirts and barbeques will be upon us yet again. Excited as I am about the rapidly approaching summer months, I can't help but feel that sort of melancholic joy of knowing you've experienced something altogether amazing - and that it's over now, a memory barely captured in a few photographs and some saved MSN conversations...

Of course none of this sank in until last night, at MISA's annual Rec Nite. Aliya, Rabyah and myself did most of the planning for it and I don't think it could have been any more perfect. The hall, the food, the decorations, the music, the slideshow, the timing, the "jam" (lol) at the end...but most of all, the people. Some of them are graduating and I'm finding it very difficult to imagine what things will be like here next year without their presence. I guess it's always like this...no matter how great anything is down the line, there's a special, irreplaceable fondness attached to the time and place where it all began.

Though the year isn't quite over, and there have been some moments when I've wished it was...I can say this with great confidence: I wouldn't change a thing.