{"id":12352,"date":"2021-05-26T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:00:24","slug":"until-next-year-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/05\/26\/until-next-year-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Until Next Year, Folks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve avoided writing a sappy end-of-the-year blog for as long as possible, (if at all) but after looking on the board and being reminded that this would be the LAST blog of my junior year, I couldn&#8217;t help but get a tad bit emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Even though my blogs really haven&#8217;t ever held much substance, I still feel a sense of pride looking at all I&#8217;ve written on here. From my blogs giving advice on social anxiety, talking about a minor character in a Disney movie, and gushing about my favorite things<em>\u2014<\/em>they all hold a little special place in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I may not have written giant pieces of social commentary or provided advice for our upcoming juniors, (I feel a bit bad, but I definitely wouldn&#8217;t have been able to provide much in that regard anyway &lt;\/3) but I had fun!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I would have become the person I was here at MSA. I don&#8217;t even resemble myself from the beginning of the year, and that goes for both the inside and out. If you were to tell me two years ago I&#8217;d cut off my hair, dye it pink, pierce my ears with a safety pin, discover my sexuality, start dressing like a Lalaloospie doll, AND begin to question my gender identity in the span of 5 months, I would have laughed in your face. Once I realized you were being serious, though, I most likely would have just fainted.<\/p>\n<p>Art school\u00a0<em>changes\u00a0<\/em>you, man. I never thought I would feel as accepted as I have here. The students here are the best you will <strong>ever<\/strong> meet and be the most accepting bunch you&#8217;ll see in the entire state. They gave me faith in the south again and made me feel at home in a state where I never had before. Is that too much? I don&#8217;t know; it&#8217;s really late.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, I don&#8217;t want to leave. There&#8217;s never been a year where I have dreaded the arrival of summer vacation, and, again, if I were to tell my past self this, they would have lost their mind.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already sounding delirious, so I&#8217;m going to go ahead and end this for the sanity of you all reading. I&#8217;m just really sad to leave but, at the same time, absolutely excited to see what&#8217;s in store for me in the year ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve avoided writing a sappy end-of-the-year blog for as long as possible, (if at all) but after looking on the board and being reminded that this would be the LAST blog of my junior year, I couldn&#8217;t help but get a tad bit emotional. Even though my blogs really haven&#8217;t ever held much substance, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/05\/26\/until-next-year-folks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Until Next Year, Folks.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12357,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions\/12357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}