Where do I want to be in four years?

Dear Future Self,

By now you should be about to wrap up your college career and journey into a new chapter in your life. I hope that you can look back on your college experience as an enjoyable and formative time. Throughout these years, I’m sure you will have many memories, some good and some bad. Overall, I hope that you use these days to better yourself as a person and better yourself academically.

I hope that you will be able to look back on the friends you have made and be grateful for their impact on you. I hope that they are loyal and care about you unconditionally. The type of people that you can’t stop laughing with, because once you stop, they make a face and you burst out in laughter again. I hope that you had many nights out where you got home way too late, and many nights where you stayed up too late studying to make up for it.

I hope that you took your classes seriously and earned good grades. I hope that you learned a lot of information that will benefit you not just professionally but personally as well. After these four years, I know you will be better at a lot of things. Things like time management, better study and learning habits, as well as a better understanding of how to use the information I have learned in my future career.

These four years will also make you a better, more productive person. Learning the mundane everyday skills like laundry, cooking your own food, and prioritizing your own needs will help you not just in the near future but throughout the rest of your life.

Overall, I hope that you took advantage of all the opportunities in front of you, and did things like playing club soccer, participating in Greek life, and studying abroad. All of these will be memories you will carry with you forever, and things that shape you into the person you will be in your new adult life. I am excited to see where you end up.

Best wishes,

Cullen