OMGraduation

By Michael Zimmer, '10

OMG you guys, can you believe we’re graduating????! CAUSE I CAN’T! Just think, this is like, my last BFP article EVER! And by the time this is published we might have already had our last Midnight Breakfast EVER!!! And next weekend the Canfield party is going to be our last party, like, EVER!!!!!

But, that’s all totally okay because I’m like still really really excited to graduate. I’m gonna be all like “Hey Lizzy! SUCK IT!” Thirteen Plan meetings and seven years later, I’m ready to GTFO! I’ve already made a playlist for the night before commencement and one for the morning of with lots of Vitamin C and Green Day, so I can keep remembering the good times and still be hopeful for the future, you know? My outfit is picked out and my parents made their reservations at the Hampton Inn forever ago! MAYBE I CAN USE THE POOL!!! Anyway, I just hope my Uncle doesn’t make those stupid jokes in front of my friends, or I might just DIE.

I’ve been thinking REALLY REALLY hard about what to put in my section of the Senior Class Memory Book and I can’t decide if my favorite outfit for a party was my Little Red Riding Hood outfit for the Canfield party or when I was Little Bo Peep for Swalloween, it’s just like, how do you choose??? I mean, I know my favorite End of the World memory is when I was making out by the bonfire during orientation and I totally caught my brand new American Apparel leg warmers on fire, (I think the gold color is more flammable) and those really really cute volunteer firemen came and took my to the hospital, and then the skin graft totally fixed my cankles!

BTW, I’m like super unhappy with the senior photo cause, like, I wasn’t even THERE. It’s not my fault I went on a total Ice bender the night before cause I was celebrating being donesies with my module. Why wont they retake it???!!! It’s just like, I want to be remembered, too, you know? Really, as long as graduation goes super awesome and I get to meet Melissa Rosenberg like face to face at graduation, I’ll be happy. GO TEAM EDWARD!

I better be next to my friends at the commencement dinner because we want to sneak shots into our iced tea, and my parents totally wont say anything. God, I’m just getting like really really emotional these past few weeks and it’s making it really really hard to do my work. I’m just trying to fit in all my last experiences! Like, this could be my last blackout at Bennington EVER! And my last time flirting with Campus Safety EVER! And my last time sneaking into CAPA and puking in The Lens EVER!!!!

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now? Can we survive it out there? Can we make it somehow? I guess I thought that this would never end, and suddenly it’s like we’re women and men. Will the past be a shadow that will follow us around? Will these memories fade when I leave this town? I keep, I keep thinking that it’s not goodbye. I keep on thinking that it’s time to fly. As we go on, we remember, all the times we, had together. And as our lives change, from whatever, we will still be, friends forever.

SENORS! BENNING-TEN! WOO!