Hi guys, it’s Amelia. After spending the whole semester in London (and traveling a ton), I finally came back to Harrisonburg for a weekend at JMU—and it was honestly just reunion after reunion. My friends knew I was coming to visit, but they didn’t know I was coming that Thursday, so we planned a super secret surprise at my small group. Getting to “plug right back in” after being gone for months was the sweetest feeling, and it made me realize how special friendships like that are. The rest of the weekend was packed: lunch debriefs with friends I missed so much, getting ready for spring fling (aka a formal), and doing all the classic college weekend things—pictures, dinner, and being booked and busy with sorority plans like a mixer and a date function. There was also a genuinely terrifying moment with late-night banging and a “prank” situation that had us calling the cops, plus the chaos of getting prank-attacked again (hot dogs and chips everywhere… like why). I ended the weekend going back to campus for my dance team’s end-of-year show, doing a little walk-and-talk with Starbucks, going to church + Sunday supper, and then stretching my trip into Monday for one more coffee run before driving home.