​My freshmen year in college was a growing experience for me to say the least. It was a large transition period in my life with lots of change. Thankfully I made some amazing friends in the first few weeks of college and they were very supportive of me.

One evening, when I was having a particularly hard time, one of my friends came into my room and kicked me out for a little bit, when I came back she said she had left me a surprise  that I had to find. Well it turned out it was surprises, as  in multiple. For the rest of the night and into the next day I found random post-it notes stuck on my television, put into one of my boots, on my mirrors, on the bottom of my bunk bed, and each one had a different inspirational quote on it. Everyone reminded me how how special I was, or how much I needed to dwell on what was right in front of me and not what had happened in my past. Each one reminded me of how open the future was with endless possibilities to what I might do.

Thats when a tradition began. I took all of those sticky notes and taped them to the bottom of my bunk bed so that when I was sitting at my desk and looked up, there they were: something to inspire me. I encouraged my friends to start writing quotes down and then they would give them to me to tape to what was dumbed "The Quote Board". It grew so that not only were there famous quotes and inspirational quotes and famous quotes, but also funny things that were said by friends. The best were those things said at 3'o'clock in the morning in our college dorm room.

The tradition still holds. Today there are two cork boards hanging in my house at school where post-it notes with inspirational quotes or quotes from something funny that was said while sitting around gabbing. Its a wonderful tradition that brings laughter to my house. When anybody walks up and reads them, it makes them laugh at a memory that was brought back.



The quote corner is where I would like to share these quotes and hopefully the inspiration they bring. Feel free to email your own and I will add them to the now virtual Quote Board.