END OF AN ERA

if my friends and their blog posts weren't sappy enough, here i am, coming at y'all with a super lame and heartfelt post about my freshman year of college coming to an end.

well...yay!!! for finally being done with all of my finals, tests, speeches, and blah blah. college is definitely no joke and it surely kicked my ass, but I'm proud of myself for not giving up and managing some good grades for my first year!!! but, i'm not going to sit and ramble on about the essays and endless amounts of lecture notes that consumed my life these past few months. i'd actually like to talk a lil' about this wonderful group of people i've met and consider some of my best friends. if you're an OG follower and remember my tumblr version of this blog, i did a little ramble about how college changed me and how i feel much more comfortable in SF and blah blah; this is kind of where I'm going back to..i was soooo scared that i wasn't going to find any friends in college. it was a new setting, a new school, and a brand new challenge to take on. my childhood friends were all over the state, while some 2 hours away, back in vacaville. this first night in the dorms, i cried because i missed my parents already and my anxiety made me think i was going to be a huge loner and have this awful experience.

within like, a month, things quickly turned around. somehow, i managed to find this kick-ass group of gals. we are all so different, yet similar, in like 100 ways.

(not all of us are pictured, but it's still one of my faves)

they have introduced me to so many cool things!!!! there was so much that i did with them that i don't think i would have ever done if i were still at home in vacaville. i got my septum pierced,  i've gone to live shows and moshed my butt off, started thrifting way more, i started blogging again, and sooooo much more. not only that, but these gals have shown me a great deal of life lessons that i will keep in my mind for as long as i can. the amount of self confidence right now is all thanks to having such a supportive and wonderful group of people surrounding me. also, whenever I'm with them i know I'm going to be crying because they make me laugh SOOO hard, and usually over nothing!!!! (we all just think were that funny)

it's going to be so weird not waiting until 5pm to have dinner at shitty eats with them, plan little outings on the weekends, and spend every other waking moment in between with them. i mean shit, look at all of the fun we have together:

ahhhh, looking back on all of these photos makes me so happy!!! because these humans make me so happy!!!! i could go on and on about how each of these individuals have shown me something super special and how unique and amazing they are but i would be here for a couple of days. yeah, we butt heads on stuff and probably get annoyed of each other 90% of the time, but at the end of the day, i don't think i could have found a better group of friends. here's to more memories, more laughs, more tears, and more adventures to come. 'till the gang is together again (in june LMAO), peace out, goodnight. I LOVE U CHICAS!!!!!! 

xoxo, mal plum