Sixty days, 18 hours and 23 minutes until nearly 500 of us leave Trinity, from the time I’m writing this. Those two months are closing in on us, and I’m so ready.

I haven’t stopped thinking about the most mundane things: a 9-5 job, the time to clean my apartment, the space to have a cat. I’m ridiculously excited to live in a new place and make my own money. And despite the anxiety of not knowing exactly where I’ll be, I’m even happy about the things I’m leaving behind.

There will be no more all-day focus sessions to finish three essays before midnight. There will be no more 13-hour work shifts at the Trinitonian every Wednesday night. I won’t have to deal with the scorching San Antonio heat. 

Just two months, and all of the stressors I’ve dealt with for the last four years will be gone. So, though, will the parts of Trinity that I love, and I haven’t been focusing on that enough.

In all of the excitement of finally (finally!) graduating, I’ve been taking the joys in my life for granted. I — and every other graduating senior I know — has been hunkering down and pushing through this last semester of school. We’re too focused on graduate school decisions and job applications to even consider what’s happening around us.

I don’t want that to be the case. I don’t want to spend the last two months of my time at Trinity complaining about classwork and procrastinating on article editing. I don’t want to spend the last two months sleeping in until noon or only eating Taco Cabana for dinner five nights a week.

I think the rest of my time here should be spent well. Trinity has given me so much over the last four years. My time here has given me the Trinitonian (despite it chewing up my time), a wonderful boyfriend, sweet friends, fantastic classes and so many other things to be grateful for. 

I’m sick of the amount of daily work I end up doing, and I am ready for a fresh start in a new city with a sustainable income. But there’s so much that I’m going to miss about this place, and I bet there’s a lot you’ll miss too.

My point is: Don’t take your days here for granted. All of the good that I’m about to experience in two months doesn’t erase the good here. I would do some horrible things to be back in Colorado sophomore year spring break. I would relive the night we covered the presidential election over and over again.

I know every senior is looking forward to graduate school and new jobs. I know all other students are excited about their three months off. You should be excited. These are exciting things. Just remember that your time here is limited.

For some students, you only have two more months to make the most of your time here. Even if you have three years and two months, though, do as much as you possibly can. Go out with your friends. Take the job. And take so many photos. Write as much of it down as you possibly can. Don’t take your four years here for granted; you’ll want to remember it all.