Finals are upon us. If you haven’t reached (or finished) the finals week panic yet, your time is coming and it’s coming fast. As a Creative Writing major, some people think when I say I don’t have any in-class finals that I’m getting off easy, but that’s far from the truth. I have 3 days to edit my 60-page portfolio, write a 10-page paper, and edit and design the front page of a newspaper in a program I know nothing about. Sure, I don’t have to memorize any equations or lists of organisms, but I have a lot to do.
Every college student identifies the struggle, including one of my best friends from high school. She saw my stress, she saw my struggle, and she swooped in to help. Last weekend, I spent 3 days visiting her and her friends at her University across the state. As I was packing up to leave, we joked that I was definitely going to leave something behind. Sure enough, I returned to campus without my umbrella. Her solution? Ask for my address so she could mail it to me.
This morning I woke up to an email informing me that I had a package in the mail center. I rushed there before lunch, eager to pick up my umbrella so I don’t have to worry about bothering with the mail center for the rest of the semester and picked up my package. The white US Postal Service envelope didn’t feel like an umbrella, so I opened it immediately.
Inside was another, smaller, golden envelope. Inside that? A potato.
In black sharpie and surprisingly neat handwriting, my potato says, “Wishing my favorite spud the best of luck on finals!! I yam rooting for you.”
I couldn’t help but laugh and Snapchat all of my friends to share my luck. As a self-proclaimed potato expert, this was the perfect push to get me through these last few days of the semester. I am so blessed to have a friend gracious enough to send me potatoes of good fortune during trying times.
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