no regrets.

i just registered my courses for my second semester of my 3rd year today. it's happening. it really is happening.

suddenly i will have no more minor courses to take, and i'll be graduating in a year's time. suddenly we will all want to cherish all the times we have, but we'll still make the same mistakes of doing all our assignments a night before the submission dates. suddenly we will take all the time we have left on campus, try not to countdown to the end, and make every moment count by spending as much time as possible with all the people you love on campus, whom you may or may not see on a regular basis after you graduate. because you know how easily it is to drift away from one another without that daily routine that glues all of us together. you know how people let go and move on with their lives. one more year. roughly 16 more months.

it's more than just a little strange, spending half your time with friends you've met for barely three years, trying to figure out your adulthood and maturing at the quickest rate ever. no wonder they say college friends are the ones that last the longest. or did they? i don't know. all i know is that these faces, that were so fresh to me just three years back, are now some of the closest friends i have. these same faces, are some of the most passionate people i am so privileged to be able to learn from. these people have taught me so much, inspired me on so many levels, and stayed by my side even though i am the whiny, physically weak, overly-emotional person that i am.

soon we will put on our graduation robes and hats, say our goodbyes, and hope that our farewells are not as dramatic as Hollywood movies depicted them to be. i can only hope, with the strongest desire, that we will not truly go our separate ways, but we will find one another again, when our paths cross and when our dreams collide.

here's to the final 1.5 years left in one of the most significant times of my life.