Smile because it happened

I'm graduating in two weeks. Holy cow.

It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in Multimedia Reporting, scared to death of TedFred and Uncle Rick, thinking I was the worst reporter on the face of the planet, wondering who all the weird people in my class were. It seems like just yesterday I was doing my first newsroom shift for TV News I, freaking out about getting B-roll and an interview, talking to Gretchen on the phone every 10 minutes trying to calm each other down.

It seems like just yesterday I was online producing with Chris Raine, HTML coding, impressing him with my ability to sing every Spangles jingle. Oh, wait... that was two weeks ago.

Now the newsroom has become not only my second home, but my second family. My classmates are some of the funniest, craziest, most wonderful people I've ever met. We've been through a lot together and we always managed to find a way to have a laugh.

Ok, so I'm not really leaving for good. I'm hoping to get in to law school here at KU. But I won't be in the newsroom every day and, honestly, I'm going to miss it. You know what they say, though: "Don't be sad because it's over; smile because it happened."