Sasha's Snippets: The Blog ;)

Dear Freshman Year,

Here is my love letter to you.

although, you were the hardest thing I have ever had to survive.

Less than one year ago,

Never in my wildest fears or dreams could I have pictured I would be where I am now and have lived all of this life in this short time. With only six days left in Sharp 223, I’ve done a lot of reflecting on and thinking about the life I’ve lived and created here. (but tbh who am I kidding? I’ve been mourning graduating from here since the day I read my acceptance letter!) Throughout the past 10 months, I have survived the breakup I never even pictured myself being in a situation to have, healed myself in ways I never dreamed I could, and dealt with hate and social issues with friends of the kind I thought we left back in middle school, made friends with people I could have seen being my bridesmaids only to find betrayal on the other side, let go of those I thought could have been with me until the end, allowed those I thought were gone forever back in again, reconnected with my inner child, rediscovered who this almost 20yr old version of myself is, found some of the most honest, kind, open, loving, genuine, and beautiful individuals I could ever imagine and be so lucky to surround myself with, fortified my connection with the universe, and re humbled myself to learn who I am and that this version of myself is constantly changing – and that’s ok💖

Freshman Year,

you were the hardest thing I have ever had to survive.

(and didn’t know if I would or could)

yet here we are today, and I would not trade you or one thing that happened throughout you for the world!

thank you for teaching me who I am. 

thank you for reconnecting me with my independence

thank you for the friends (family)

thank you for the heartbreak 

thank you for bringing me people to teach me “it truly was never that serious”

thank you for the side quests and adventures 

thank you for Sharp 2 (tall)

thank you for challenging me

thank you for Theta 

thank you for the debriefs and lore

thank you for this community

thank you for recruitment

thank you for sending people to me who are willing to give me a chance/take a chance on me

thank you for exposing me to a new way of living

thank you for life outside of my small town🫶

thank you for all the love in my life, I will never get over how lucky I am!!

thank you for making me start from ground zero

thank you for NOLA

thank you for showing me new things I can learn from others in order to better myself

thank you for the academic/professional opportunities

thank you for Tuesdays, Taco Loco, and TJ’s

thank you for Brayden😇💖🤱🏼

thank you for reminding me I still have SO MUCH to learn about EVERYTHING

thank you for Patios and Stoops

thank you for teaching me to reconnect with what I treasure most about myself

thank you for teaching me how to react

thank you for showing me there are people who will just naturally love me at my worst and cherish me at my best

thank you for forcing me to prove my independence

thank you for the boot🙈 (patio/bappy)

thank you for teaching me about rejection

thank you for forcing me to find/consider a plan for my life and future

thank you for sending me people who deserve to be around me

thank you for helping me let go

thank you for giving me everything i needed even if I didn’t want it, exactly when I needed it

thank you for providing me with joys in life I have always longed for but never been able to have

thank you for the failures I’ve had

thank you for bringing so many new people with so many different lives and stories to learn about/from into my life

thank you for showing me there’s others out there just like me in the best ways

thank you for showing me a life without having been afflicted by seasonal depression

thank you for teaching me a new kind of living in the moment

thank you for letting me live outside my archetype

thank you for teaching me the true meaning of protecting my peace

thank you for making me NEED to work for things

thank you for teaching me a new manner of how to show myself grace

thank you for the smiles

thank you for bringing people into my life whom it was my job and purpose to help

thank you for helping me process my first real transformation into adulthood and the second stage of my life

thank you for giving me people who see me for me

thank you for the chaos

thank you for Mardi Gras (and me surviving it)

thank you for 928 Broadway🏡

thank you for teaching me to TRULY appreciate Lake 457 next year😁

thank you for the giggles

thank you for the tears

thank you for making sure the right ones stayed

thank you for teaching me to accept spontaneity

thank you for all the exploring

thank you for teaching me new ways to have fun

thank you for how simple life is right now, at this age, for this time being!

thank you for the joy you have given those that I love therefore I have gotten to celebrate them for it

thank you for the mistakes

thank you for the life lessons and things that have yet to be explained

and most of all,

thank you oh SO much for the memories littered head to toe with love, hopes, dreams, laughter, lessons, and chaos!!!!

– with love, a very very sentimental and sad but eternally grateful Sasha Cohen

(61 Newcomb Place, I will see you oh so soon – but until then if you need me I will be somewhere FAR off the coast of Boston frolicking in the ocean, thinking of you always😇)