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When Senior Year Involves a Wedding

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Taylor Mergele
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Stacey Oswald
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Vanderbilt chapter.

 

Senior year is an exciting and scary time in college. You finally know your way around campus, you’ve found the easy classes to take, and you can legally get into any bar you want. But the stress also piles up. Who will hire me? Will I have to move back in with my parents? Will I be accepted to law/graduate/medical school? It’s a stressful time, but it’s also the best. It’s your last time living with college friends and goofing off.
 
I have a little bit of a different situation. This coming May, I’m graduating and hopefully starting my career. But in June, I’m getting married. It’s weird being engaged in college. Our society today has the average age of marriage at 29. I’ll be reliving the 1950s as I walk down the aisle at 21 years old. It can be hard acting like a typical college senior when I’m also planning the near-future with a husband. Sometimes it feels like two totally different lives. But even though wedding planning can be stressful, I know I’m making the right choice.
 
 
The important thing is that I don’t let wedding planning stop me from enjoying my last year of college. I love college like any other senior. I go out with friends, stress out over homework, and eat too many frozen meals. It can be hard knowing my friends and I are moving apart after graduation. We have a College Bucket List that we are slowly but surely checking off. It’s fun enjoying our last month of college but whenever we get too sad, we just remember that real life has no term papers.
 
Even with the stress of planning a wedding and the bittersweet moments of graduating college, I can’t wait for the future!
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Stacey Oswald

Vanderbilt

Stacey Oswald, originally from South Florida, came to Vanderbilt as a member of the class of 2015 and got involved with HerCampus her freshman year. She became assistant editor that year and is now the Campus Correspondent for Vanderbilt HC as a sophomore. Stacey is currently a columnist for Ask Miss A- Nashville and the life section of The Hustler. She's also very involved in her sorority, Kappa Delta, as well as Invisible Children. Outside of school and her extracurriculars, Stacey finds happiness in many sources, the most crucial being exercise and the sun. She loves to attend exercise classes and is an avid runner; she recently completed the Country Music Half Marathon. She also loves Vitamin D, especially when on the beach- though of course, she only soaks up the sun after applying SPF. A few of the things Stacey couldn't live without? Good food (especially from Sweet Cece's, Bricktops, and Samurai Sushi), great books (The Hypnotist's Love Story is a recent favorite), her family back in Florida, her wonderful boyfriend, and all of the great friends she's made at Vanderbilt.