Dear July

Dear July Hey friends! This post is a little unconventional and inspired completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She creates an annual video series called Letters to July, sort of like a stylized/artistic/vlog-like diary in which she and her friends speak their current feelings to a personified July. Because of my summer class (to be featured in a blog post tomorrow, immediately following our final presentations), I currently have fancy Adobe software on my computer like Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the video capabilities of my replacement cell phone 2) inspiration to reflect on the month of July before I head home 3) vanity and 4) boredom/insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar) audio in silence and do some quick editing. Anyway, I promise there will be something of a little more substance tomorrow if this isnt really your style of content. (Alternatively, if people like vlogs let it be known because Im always looking for excuses to better my novice filmmaking skillz). I should probably also put in a shameless plug to join the ranks of the bloggers if youre a current MIT student! Cool. Dear July Inspired by Ceris Dear July   Dear July,     You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.   Because you are the last one that precedes certainty â€" at least for now. You brought us work experience that challenged us, July. We got some things right and many things wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when we meet your older sister August.   You were kind, July. You let us spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we went on walks with our mom every night! Okay fine, almost every night.   You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth time specifically   (fifth, if we only count the times we remember) But it wasn’t all bad. We dug up so many memories, pictures, and projects that we hadn’t seen in years, and laughed a lot! So for that, thank you. But mostly, you were confusing July. Senior year is coming up. You reaffirmed our choices, but then made us question them. You made us excited for the future, but also scared. We made spreadsheets and lists, and spoke conversations and conditionals.   Still, we are taking your confusion into tomorrow, despite our efforts to organize it away. So we will welcome the uncertainty that succeeds you, and take things one day at a time. Just like we did with you.