I love how potatoes are such a big deal

• I love the way the faucets in our bathtub and in our kitchen sink are backwards, so cold is hot and hot is cold. (And sometimes I forget to tell people so they end up washing their hair or their dishes in freezing cold water).  
• I love the way President Clark never fails to say, "It's another great day at BYU-Idaho."  
  
• I love making friends with people at the library because they have about 473.29 pages printing and they are standing in line ahead of you.  
  
• I love tutoring students and hearing about their lives amidst the grammar and the reading skills.  
  
• I love walking through the Spori and sometimes seeing Laura's art on the wall.  
  
• I love praying before class and sometimes singing hymns; it makes having Relief Society in a classroom not seem so strange.  
  
• I love "Photosynthesis Friday" and when the print-making and pottery students sell stuff in the MC.  
• I love the walk to the Hinckley building.  
  
• I love seeing Rexburg sunsets from the Taylor quad, and every time saying to myself, "Idaho is pretty."
  
• I love coming home to supportive roommates who are crazy and brilliant and like me the way I am.  
  
• I love being able to do projects in the media lab on the 3rd floor of the library because they have gluesticks.  
  
• I love the 57th ward and when the bishop uses hand motions to teach gospel principles.  I love sitting in meetings in which I laugh until my sides hurt, and where I still feel like I can help people.  
• I love visiting the Snowview apartments and the Sunrise apartments to find friends and scintillating conversation.  
  
• I love the math lab, where people like you--even if you struggle with every single problem.  
  
• I love how it is okay to eat peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner.  
  
• I love having room to invite people over.  
  
• I love how FHE is always awkward.  Every time.  
  
• I love making ice cream runs on Thursday nights, and that we now know that Arctic Circle has the best twist cones (and McDonald's are nasty).  
  
• I love when I'm at the library late and I hear music play over the loud speaker, along with "The McKay Library will be closing in 5 minutes" in a plethora of languages.  
  
• I love sitting in the "heater corner" to warm up.
• I love Broulims because it feels like a neighborhood grocery store.  Actually it is.  
• I love driving around and seeing stars and fields everywhere.  
• I love sitting downstairs and moving around because the non-existent wireless connection is touchy.
• I love listening to music with Lars in the morning while we get ready.  
• I love wondering if it's just "cold" or if it is "frigid" outside.  
• I love BYU-Idaho.  I have had so many good times/life experiences/hard times/learning experiences here.  I have felt comfortable here.  I have felt at home.  

Tomorrow is graduation!  I just picked up my cap and gown so I can iron it before tomorrow.  My parents are driving up, and we will get to hear President Clark and President Uchtdorf speak.  It's exciting and melancholy, as I have said before.  I like it here.  

Long live Idaho.