I took a semester off of college. Soon it'll be entirely in hindsight, and I can honestly say that I never, EVER want to find myself doing this again. I have never been this bored for this long with so much anxiety mounting. All the issues I left open-ended when I said my farewell to BGSU haunted me, and I was pretty sure they were degenerating into festering wounds in my absence.
And here's the thing—they were. I'm coming back for a semester there to tie up all kinds of loose ends. I'm going to cauterize social wounds, repair the damage done to my academics, and maybe learn something useful this time.
And then I'm going to Ringling CA