2012

Celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends was particularly bittersweet this year. I’ve celebrated with the same group of people for all four years of college, some of them longer, and it occurred to me that evening that 2013 is going to be a year of change. Getting new jobs, going to graduate school, moving to different parts of the country; I’m excited for the change, but at the same time, college flew by and it’s a strange feeling to think that those four years are nearly over and we’ll all be in different places by this time next year.

2012 was an eventful year. I dropped the music major and threw myself into the English major, winning two scholarships. I started doing research in the humanities, presented at the research symposium, realized that I loved contemporary literature, and spent three months writing an honors thesis on three of my favorite novels. I studied for, and took the LSAT, which temporarily became quite a large part of my life. I re-discovered a love for the fantasy genre with “A Song of Ice and Fire” and reminisced  like crazy waiting for “The Hobbit” to be released. I started tutoring at CLUE and met an entirely wonderful group of co-workers and friends there. I’ve also kept a blog going over a year for the first time in my life.

Next year, I’ll hopefully be in law school somewhere in the country and my life will be very different once again. I started off 2013 appropriately: throwing an impromptu Hobbit-themed party at my apartment. Lots of food, wine, one of my friends skyping in, and watching “Fellowship of the Ring”. In the next few days, I received my LSAT score two days earlier than expected, threw myself into law school applications, and went on an unexpected trip to Victoria with a handful of friends (more on that forthcoming). It seemed like a good way to start a year that’s going to be, for the most part, unexpected and unpredictable.