With graduation right around the corner, I have had time to think about my four years here at UConn.

It’s definitely a bittersweet moment, I spent four years living in this campus, going to classes, club meetings; this is where I met my best friends and I don’t know what I would’ve done without them. As a first generation student, I won’t sugar coat anything, it has been hard. But I received all the help and support from them, I knew I could always count on them for anything. They have been with me through my ups and downs.

There are so many memories that I look back to, having to film and act a clip of ‘Bird Box’, going from room to room in my building talking to my floor mates and staying till late studying, all the girls getting ready in the shared floor bathrooms, those Saturday brunch times at the South dining hall with everyone there gossiping about anything, friendsgiving dinner, cooking class, dog sitting, Halloweekend, Homecoming carnaval, and more memories I will always remember.

Although I do think back about times and have a few regrets on not taking a specific class, or not being out there going to events. Even in my career path, wishing I knew what I wanted to do early in my first year of college. All of those thoughts run through my mind, but I know I shouldn’t be hard on myself because if it wasn’t for any of that I wouldn’t have taken those classes that have taught me so much about myself and how I view life. So don’t live life full of regrets, everything you went through was just a different route to get you to where you are now.

Now the big question that everyone is thinking about: what’s next? What I can tell you is this, my future will be filled with many more adventures and different stops to where I want to go. I know that in order to get to where I want to be, I would have to work hard and let my determination and work ethic take over. It won’t be easy, but who said everything in life is easy?

This blog was mainly for me as a reflection, but I hope it also helped you see a few things of your own. Moving on to a new chapter of your life is scary. There is a saying in Spanish I always think about in rough situations, “ Dios aprieta, pero nunca ahorca.” Meaning “God squeezes, but never strangles” there’s nothing that God doesn’t put in your life that you can’t handle.