That’s a wrap, the semester is finally over. My second year of college is finished. I made many new friends this past year, dare I say it: best friends. The endless laughs, jokes, and conversations we had will stay with me for a lifetime. But now what? Now we move onward into the frightening future. Many of my friends, including myself, are leaving the country at one time or another. The countries consist of: India, Belgium, Turkey, Azerbaijan, France, Italy, and countries in Africa (it’s my fault I wasn’t attentive enough when my friend told us where she was going, I apologize).

While I am happy and ecstatic for all of my friends, and me, for broadening our horizons–I feel a little sad. Our band of misfits and rabble-rousers will not be whole for quite some time, in fact a long time. Many of my friends will be graduating in the upcoming year, others to internships that will take them across the country. The band of WILBs that we crafted and created is scattering to the wind.

That being said, I never had the chance to say in person how much these people mean to me (mostly because I hate being sappy, and I can’t deal with tears from either myself or others), also because I like to wait and write it out. There are too many of you to name, and you all know who you are so I’ll just get into it: thank you, thank you for being my friend. Whenever I needed someone to talk to you were always there, always ready with a joke to lift my spirits. Always engaging in interesting conversation(no matter how explicit), always down to play games both the card and board variety(and smash bros, can’t forget smash bros). We always had fun when we were together, we danced, sang and rejoiced in each others company. It was a wild ride.

As we continue to grow and march forward into the our respective futures I just want to make one thing clear: WILB is not a single person or idea, it is a collection of people and collection of ideas that come together to create WILB.

I’ll leave you with this quote: “One person cannot be WILB. Only in the presence of other people can the WILB be revealed and crafted”- Wilbologist Titch.

Thank you.