Senior Year: Cake

My senior year was also my third year at UGA. Because I decided to graduate early, life seemed to speed up yet also slow down. I was finally an upperclassman and academically was only sharing classes with people I had studied with for the past few years. The anxiety of leaving undergrad behind set in and set me on a course of remembrance and nostalgia. I stopped rushing to class with my head down and looked around. Sometimes, I realized UGA was beautiful. I started to cherish the ease of being in college and the community I had formed over the past 3 years.

Ingredients:

1 cup of applying to jobs 

1 1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons for sprinkling the top of spending time with friends 

2 teaspoons of going on hikes 

1/2 cup of senioritis 

1 teaspoon of graduation anxiety 

1/2 teaspoon of constantly being reminded I was “old”

1/2 teaspoon of going to the farmer's market 

2 cups glued in cafes downtown

1 cup of rotting on my floor 

I chose cake as it symbolizes a new beginning, a celebration of leaving this chapter of my life.