"Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now"

I don't understand it when people say they have no regrets in life. I mean, sure, I hope they don't regret the person they married or having a child or those other "big" life decisions. But whenever someone says in a movie (and I realize it is a fictional character) that they don't have any regrets, I just don't believe it. I mean I regret the fact that I ate twenty(....-nine) Peanut Butter MnM's earlier today instead of 5, or you know, carrot sticks.

I went to Athens for the weekend because: 1) It was a long weekend. 2) A large majority of my friends still live there and I miss them greatly. 3) Several friends who now live out of state were visiting for another friend's birthday. It was an awesome weekend and as much as I love home, it still always makes me sad when I have to get on to 316 West instead of East.

I was extremely lucky to find a great group of friends in college. I mean an awesome, amazing, hilarious, fantastic, beautiful, smart, lovely group of friends. The only downside was I met about half of them the first half of senior year and the other half the last semester. So that meant only spending four or five months with some of them before we all graduated and went our separate ways. But I'm so grateful that these friendships have kept up thanks in large part to Facebook, texting, and gChat.

But it just makes me so sad that I could have been having the time of my life for four years instead of just one. So that's one of my biggest regrets. And sure, maybe if we all had met each other sophomore year, the timing and dynamic wouldn't have been right and it wouldn't have worked out. I'll just always wonder how much greater my college experience could have been. Not that I am trying to complain, I had an awesome time. And if I keep up my streak of visiting Athens that means I get to spend time with some of the people I love most. Until then... gChat and Facebook will just have to be a (distant) second choice.

Oh and while I'm talking about regrets. My other two involving my college years:

2. I should have been more involved in college. Since I declared my major junior year and therefore had to take my major classes the last three semesters of school which meant four english classes at once for a year. And that meant 16 papers in one semester. I had no life.

3. I should have done a freaking internship. I need experience. Job searching sucks. Still.