Congratulations Class of 2020! Freshman year has officially ended, and we all survived! While it is quite bittersweet and sentimental, I find myself saying halleluiah, and already planning for my sophomore year. Coming into college, I expected my freshman year to go smoothly; to achieve all the goals I had set for myself, and to avoid the Freshman 15 that seems to affect many. While I cannot say my experience was “unique,” I have to say that it was what I needed it to be. I do not think that if freshman year had gone smoothly for me, would I have truly had the “college experience” and learned what I needed to learn in and out of the classroom. I would never have realized that my calling was to be a lawyer, or that you have to stay strong in order to survive in college, and keep pressing on despite hard times.
I want to thank Her Campus Wake Forest for allowing me to be a freshman blogger, and I look forward to continuing my journey with this chapter in the fall.
I want to thank Johnson Hall for hosting me for a year and for introducing me to my closest friends.
Lastly, thank you Wake Forest for accepting me into your community. I seriously cannot imagine myself at any other institution!! Because of you I have been able to pursue everything I wanted to do this year, and for that I am forever grateful. I look forward to what the future holds for me in the next three years!
Signing off until next fall, these have been final thoughts from me, Sam Smart.
Have a great summer Deacs!
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