I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ll miss the most about Pitt when I graduate. And the more I think about it, the more I see how important walkable communities are.

Home is difficult and shocking, but it’s where we grow. My life in my old home is finished. None remains but old memories, preserved for me to walk through like a museum. Labels hang on each and every door — one reads, “Mall Food Court (2017-2021) / Remember that one time?”

When I was younger, I thought college would be the time in my life when I got all my life experience in and figured out who I am and what I want. It is, to some degree, and I’m happy to say that I'm a little bit closer to figuring it all out, but I’m not fully there yet. Well, I’m here to tell you that that’s okay.

Whether you graduate with your degree early or it takes you 12 years, whether you drop out or take a break, life holds innumerable opportunities for you. The stress of trying to plan your life in your early 20s has real effects.

A Pitt spokesperson said the tuition increase is a result of inflation and a flat appropriation from the state for the past three years.

Being someone’s friend is taking the time to consider their wants and needs, and occasionally putting those needs before your own. Most of the people we surround ourselves with do not genuinely care about us or our wellbeing, at least where it extends beyond their own. In actuality, they only care about having someone to spend time with or to relate to.

Halloween in college is an entertaining distraction from the problems of young adult life.

We’re supposed to soak up our last moments of college — in many ways, the last moments before being thrust into adulthood — without even fully knowing what we’ve missed. 

We are all hoping for an in-person semester in the fall, but I want to acknowledge the bittersweet ending of our year at Zoom University.

In this column, I want to impart the lessons I’ve learned as well as give my thoughts on the costly and rigid academic structure of college.