When people ask me about my time at Sacred Heart, I don’t know what to say. How can you put into words how much I loved and will forever cherish my time here and the incredible people I’ve met along the way? I will always answer with a fond memory about what I learned or who I met during my years, but one memory cannot capture the entire Sacred Heart experience. I owe all of it to my family because without their love and support I would not have graduated this weekend.

     My years were full of ups and downs, but I would not change it for the world. Meeting the people I did and forming the friendships I did made my years so much better. Being a part of the Sacred Heart class of 2015 is an odd but amazing experience because as freshmen you are all thrust together into this school where everyone loves you and wants you to have a smooth year, and as a freshman you are confused with how someone you don’t even know can already support you so much, but those upperclassmen who helped us freshmen are the real core of Sacred Heart. They want to help; they are not being told help, they just want to, and as I grew up around my SHA sisters, I know that the impact of the generosity that pulses through the halls of this school came with me and formed me as I am.

     To my 121 sisters, you know how hard these years were, but you also know how great they were to each one of us. We have all been through rough times. As we all said goodbye to the year and to those people who we may not see for awhile, I tried to step back and take a deep breath because I wanted to enjoy this. Graduating is what our class has waited for our whole lives, what we wished would happen to us during those seemingly dark days buried in homework, but now we wish hadn’t. Because looking back, I see that those darks days weren’t so dark. As Lauren said in her valedictory speech, “Our worst days at Sacred Heart were better than our best days spent anywhere else.” So when people ask me about my time at Sacred Heart, this is what I will say from now on.