A tribute to all of you....

Hey everyone. Hard to believe that I am now a college graduate. Seems like yesterday that I was pulling up to Pine Hall in my Bronco with Nick following me in his Neon. Now here I am 4 years later and the story is over. Graduation was ok, the student speaker and both alumni speakers were terrible. The chancellor was quite good though. Anywayz, this post isn't about me it is about you guys and girls. The following are things that I wanna say to each of you that has made my college experience memorable that I wasn't able to say in person. Now forgive me if these statements lack eloquence or grace since I don't really have a knack for either. However, these statements are honest and sincere and I figure that will do. I know everyone I list doesn't read this blog or even remember me anymore but I don't care I'm gonna say things anywayz.

Chris-
Chris you are an extremely kind hearted human being. I truly believe that you would give any one of your friends the shirt off your back without them even having to ask. You are a person who genuinely desires to make the world a better place for everyone while asking very little for yourself. You have a lot of big dreams and although some of them are a bit unreasonable you have nothing but the best intentions. Your undying optimism is very endearing. I know you have suffered some major hardships in your life but you have dealt with them incredibly well. I know when you decide what you wanna do with your life that you are gonna be great at it. Never stop believing in yourself and your dreams. I'll miss you man.

Brad-
Brad my first memory of you is having a discussion about how great it would be great to be able to grab barrels out of your pants and throw them at people(it totally would be awesome). I pretty much knew right there that you were my kinda person. You are an extremely talented and funny guy. I miss the days of walking into your room at 5-6 am and having random discussions about the weirdest stuff. Also, it was nice to have you around due to your vast amount of sports knowledge which allowed us to discuss all sorts of sports related topics as well as drawing up the playbook for the game against Spooner(we totally would have won if those guys hadn't pussed out). Most importantly, you introduced us to the Brad Coulombe challenge which has provided a myriad of disgusting, amazing. and hilarious stories. You are a terrific guy and a huge pimp. I hope you get that movie part at open casting so I can be your manager and leach off you;)I'm gonna miss you quite a bit and I look forward to hearing about how you hooked up with the 8 hottest chicks in Morris at the same time.

Mac-
So many Greg Thorson classes together. I missed having you around Morris. I remember us having all sorts of random discussions with you, Jon, and the ex. I remember many late night sessions where we bemoaned the fact that 2 beautiful blondes from South Dakota had broken our hearts. It was nice to talk someone about it and I hope I was as good a listener as you were. I'll never forget when we got into the campus tunnels and went exploring for an hour or 2, such good times. I am glad to see that you have found yourself a new girl and a job that you really seem to like.I wish for your continued happiness and success and I promise to keep in touch.

Dana-
You are an extremely capable and talented girl. You are one of those people who knows way way to much about me. It was always nice to have someone in history and poli sci classes who would laugh at my and inappropriate and bad jokes. I think you are gonna kick ass in history and library sciences and make one hell of a librarian. Be confident in your abilities and talent because they are vast. Don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want and stop listening to your mom( you don't wanna become what it is you hate the most(trust me I know :L)). I wish you nothing but the best and I know in 5 years you are gonna have a great job, a good husband, and maybe a kid or 2.

Jen-
Hard to believe that for a long time you and I didn't really like each other. My very first impressions of you were completely and totally wrong. You are an extremely talented and intelligent girl. I hope I am able to follow in your foot steps and go to law school and kick butt somewhere. I always appreciated the fact that you would try to get me to talk about myself, and although I always tried to change the subject or just refused to saying anything I really did appreciate the fact that you were interested in what I thought or fealt about something. It has been far too long since we have had the opportunity to chat, I hope I am able to see you sometime in the near future and pick your brain about law school.

Alex-
Within the first minute of meeting you I knew that I liked you. That first epic trip to Culver's fealt like you had been one of the guys for years. You are an amazing guy you are a genius, a very talented musician, hilarious, a good decision maker, and a great friend. I'm gonna miss hanging out with you a lot, mostly cuz you tolerated all my random jokes and musings. Also, it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can fall asleep and what you can sleep through. Truly sir you are an amazing human being. I expect that soon you will be dating an extremely gorgeous girl who is as talented and intelligent as you are. I wish you the best in your next 2 years and Morris and I hope I am able to come back and visit.

Evan-
I will never understand how you tolerate so many things in good humor. I really wish I had your level of tolerance for people and different ideas. You are an exceptionally intelligent person Evan and I think you are gonna make a great teacher if that is the profession that you choose to pursue. I would consider it a privelege to have any of my children taught by you. It was nice to have you around to argue with and to tell me that I was wrong/being a douchebag when I needed it. Even though we disagree about a lot of things I think I learned a lot from you and always appreciated your perspective on things. I hope to see you through this summer man.

Alot of these posts have been rather difficult to write since I am not really great at this kind of thing, but these next 3 are especially hard.

Jon-
Wow. What I do I say to you. You are one of two people who saved my life. You have so many qualities I admire and wish I had myself. You are confident but never arrogant, always eloquent, able to discuss anything intelligently but also yell when appropriate, you always seem to know the right thing to say and do, and no matter where you are and what you are doing you seem to be successful. I don't know what else to say to you Jon other than it has been an honor, a privelege, and a pleasure to be able to call you my friend.

PATRICK!!!!-
What do you say to one of the best friend's you have ever had? You are like the other half of my brain. I'm pretty sure we are actually one person that was accidentally split into 2. I suggest we do the fusion dance. I miss having you around already and I have only been home less then a day. Word's can't describe how good of a friend you are. You are one person that I hope I never lose touch with, I hope something works out so that I am able to live in close proximity to you so that the adventures of Patman and J-Train will continue for many years to come. I'm very lucky to have a friend as good as you. I don't know what else to say except thank you.

Meghan-
This is by far the hardest one to write. It is amazing the power your name holds over me, even typing it now brings back a flood of memories. I loved you more than anything else in the wolrd and pretty much anyone that knew us both knew that was true. The hardest thing I have ever had to deal with was you dumping me. I still don't know why it happened and I prolly never will. I'll never forgive myself for doing whatever I did that drove you away and messed up our relationship. My life would be a lot easier if I could hate you, or blame you, or talk negatively about you.... but unfortunately I simply can't. You leaving took a big part of me that I have never been able to replace with anything else. You are the best and worst thing to happen to me in my life so far.You are an amazing and talented girl who I miss everyday. I feel lucky that I got to call you my own if only for a short while. I'm sure where ever you are and whatever you are doing you are a great success at it and I wish you happiness. You have probably forgotten all about me by now but I will never ever forget you.


Well everyone I hope that I didn't upset anyone with anything I said. These are just a few things that I wanted to say to each of you even if you never read this blog. I love all of you tremendously. Each of you has a good friend to me and I miss/will miss everyone of you. Anywayz feel free to comment as always. Peace and much love.

-Jake