Vacation

n.
1. A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation.

2. A holiday.
3. A memorable break from everyday life, spent with friends and family.

Celebration

n.
1. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event.
2. awesome times with fantastic people.

Graduation

n.
1. an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
2. the ceremony of conferring degrees or diplomas, as at a college or school.
3. a time of celebration, nostalgia, excitement, sadness, and overused cliches.

sweet, sweet success.

May I Present...

(drum roll please) Gordon College! Located in Massachusetts, just half an hour outside of Boston, Gordon is a picturesque campus set on 450 acres of woods and ponds... and it's where I'll be living come August.


Well, there you have it, folks. The decision has been made. I know all zero readers of this blog will miss me terribly, but I'll be home for Christmas...hey, that reminds me of a song...
Seeing as we're diverging into tangents here, I'll be done now since I have nothing else to say and no more pictures to post - because ironically enough, the college I chose to attend is the college my mom and I took the fewest pictures of during our brief college tour back in March.
Wow, has it really been that long?

Makedonija

Standing on the Brink...

It's almost the biggest decision of my existence to date, and it will profoundly impact not just the next four years, but potentially the rest of my life.

College.

Such a small word, with such colossal implications.

But the purpose of this blog is to chronicle this time of transitions in pictures, not to muse about my extensive, conflicting, and often completely illogical thoughts on higher education.

So. These are my favorite shots from the whirlwind college visiting trip that I was blessed to be able to go on last week: