I'm scared of losing the network I built here this past year. I feel safe and comfortable around the people that I have surrounded myself with academically, finally, for the first time in my life. None of them are of my own age sans one or two - which I don't know if this is a glaring problem that I am merely just choosing to look over or not - and the rest are faculty members or professors. But I have amassed myself a network of caring, compassionate, highly intelligent, willing, critical thinkers and I'm just hoping that this will carry on in all of my relationships in California.

I care deeply about the people I've gotten close to this semester, and will regretfully not have the ability to see them every day as I can now. Not having the option of emailing my professors to meet up in their office or on small campus is going to be a big change. Being the big fish in a small pond, too, will certainly change.