‘Growing up means planting our own gardens’

but don’t forget that there is life outside of Cabrini’s 112-acre campus. Don’t jeopardize things for yourself now because you didn’t think things through when you had the chance.

This year I became very close to someone who has taught me a great lesson in weeding through the good, the bad and growing up. They told me, “Growing up means planting our own gardens. Instead of waiting, you should act. By doing so you will weed through your garden and keep only the flowers.”

They don’t know it, but I’ll be forever grateful for their words.

My message to my fellow Cavaliers is if you’re having a hard time roughing it through this whole college thing and getting yourself in order, it might not be because the classes are too hard and there aren’t enough hours in a day. It’s because you’ve become too caught up in “college,” in what everyone else is do- ing, saying or thinking to take the time out to do, say and think for yourself.

A word to the wise, the only people worth having in your life are the ones that deserve to have you in theirs, everyone else is just fluff. Be careful of the people that aren’t important in the long run and hold onto the ones that are because those are the ones that will remember to call you at 7 a.m. on a Friday morning just to make sure you make it into work.