It's Really Ending

My day began when I heard knocking at the door. More accurately, Jahnvi heard knocking on our door and got up to answer it. When she opened it to reveal a group of our friends and fellow classmates outside the door, I woke up. I'm thankful for the fact that at some point during the night we told Jared to wake us up at 8 AM, otherwise our alarms would've continued to blare until Charlotte our RA, came to find us. 

We had to say goodbye to Mac before we got on the bus to leave, as he lives in Wisconsin, so it wasn't logical for him to go all the way back to UChicago before leaving. This was a sad moment, though Peter J had left the night before, there wasn't such an obvious moment. In this we were all standing with our suitcases only to realize that though Mac had all of his belongings, he wouldn't be coming with us on the bus. Mac is essentially Nick's best friend from the whole UChicago experience, so he was the saddest to see Mac go.

On the bus ride back, we had a bus that seats 40, meaning there was room for both Jahnvi and I to sleep across an entire row, so the ride back I took the opportunity to sleep. 

Upon arrival back on campus MA a commuter student who actually saw his house go by as we drove back to UChicago, left. This left all of the students in the dorms to head back inside and try to get used to not seeing the same people for 16 hours of the day. 

As it turns out, we're all very bad at this. It wasn't long before Nick had contacted Jahnvi and asked what we were doing for lunch, and we decided to go down to the food trucks parked right down the street from where our class was to get food. Jared, Nick, Lister, Kara(she knew none of these people), Jahnvi, and I went down to the food trucks before eating in the second floor lounge where we could see who was leaving campus today. It's sad to see people walk down the hall with all of their belongings they brought with them, and usually an entourage to see them off. These three weeks have felt both like a lengthy and minuscule amount of time, and the friendships we've made has made it feel like we've known each other longer than less than a month.

(Left) Nick, (Center) Jahnvi, (Right) Jared

Jared wanted to go to Adler Planetarium, but none of us wanted to spend money both on the trip there, but also on the planetarium itself. Instead we decided to go to the Museum of Science and Industry, so I did end up getting to go after all! MSI reminded me greatly of the Exploratorium when we first went in, with interactive activities and games and interesting exhibits. We mostly wandered through the exhibits and played with the interactive games we thought were interesting. On the way back we stopped at Medici's for delicious milkshakes.

Throughout the trip to MSI and back, annoyingly enough Jared and I found that we have ridiculously similar senses of humor. It's annoying in the fact that we didn't begin actually talking to each other until a few days ago, so we're finding on the last days that there's someone else with this sense of humor. The odd thing is that we never would've found out if Jahnvi and I hadn't heard Jared and his Yerkes roommate Ben talking and stroke up a conversation with them. If I were to do one thing differently during this trip, it would've been to move more around the classroom in the beginning instead of sitting in the same place, so I could socialize with more of my classmates than just those in the area directly surrounding me.

Michelle leaving :(

Immediately after getting back from MSI Michelle was leaving. We had a prolonged goodbye due to her not filling out a necessary form, and waiting for her mom to pick her up. It was a sad moment overall as she was the first of my immediate friend group to go, so now I was a part of an entourage saying goodbye to a friend. She lives in the Bay Area also, so unlike with most of my classmates, it's not actually impossible for me to see her again, but that fact that I can't just go up one floor or go across the building and find her is a strange concept. 

I spent the rest of the evening wandering around with Jahnvi and saying bye to people before settling in Nick's room to watch John Mulaney comedy routine's with Jared, Nick, Juvia(one of Nick's friends), and occasionally Jahnvi and Kara. At one point we said goodbye to Lister as it was unlikely we would see her in the morning, which was a  blue moment for us all. We went down for the ice cream social for a second before continuing our comedy show entertainment.

A necessary picture of Jared trying to pack his bag.