It’s been a while. And that is completely my fault. It has been a whirlwind of a semester, but in the back of my mind, I thought about TSGOS on a daily basis. I woke up sweating every day that passed and I hadn’t written.
Mariah, our dear column creator that many of you know and love, has sadly graduated this past May. She passed down her column to me — Alyssa. I began at VALLEY my sophomore year, and Mariah took me under her wing. She is truly my mother.
I am now a junior at Penn State, and I don’t even want to say what the next year that comes after junior year is.
Mariah has graciously left me with the legacy of The Single Girls of State. I am ready to continue on her column, and hopefully, by the time I graduate, I will have found our next girl for this column.
I do have to be clear about one thing — and that is that I am a fraud.
You see, when I was first offered this column, I was indeed a single girl of state. I had been single my whole life — until June. Over the summer, I got into a relationship, and then I remembered — wait! I have a column all about being single in college!
I hope you can forgive me. I feel like a liar, a fraud, a cheat. Selfishly, I was not going to give up this column because I wasn’t single. Plus, I know what being single feels like. I honestly thought I’d be single until the age of 30. I wasn’t planning on getting into a relationship anytime soon (why, we can discuss later!), but here we are now, and I truly am so happy.
I have been with my boyfriend for almost six months now, and I have learned a lot about what being in a relationship truly feels like. I can take my wisdom (I use that word lightly) and maybe help out other girls navigating dating in college. Having your first relationship at the age of 20 (now 21, cheers!) can seem embarrassing, but I have come to embrace it.
I will open up about my experiences, my thoughts, my feelings and my past single girl excursions and share with you lovely readers the complex emotions when it comes to both dating and being single.
I’m so excited to take over TSGOS, and I hope I can live up to Mariah. This is all for her. And you, of course. See you soon.
XOXO, Alyssa
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