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My class is special. We’ve been through a lot together. Our college careers have not particularly been easy, but I think I speak for everyone when I say it would have been a lot harder if we didn’t have each other.
Regardless of what was going on around us at the time, I can’t think of a single moment in which I asked for help and they wouldn’t have been there in a heartbeat. When I was really struggling with a tough situation my freshman year, all 9 of them offered to roll up to my dorm room with blankets and pillows to sleep on my floor and give me company. I never got to see if they really would have, but I absolutely think they would’ve shown up if I had asked. When I have a really bad day, someone is there holding my hand, or telling me to count the things I can see, or standing on a park bench in the Kurz courtyard and reciting scenes from Hamlet to make me laugh.
We are exceedingly resilient. We have difficult conversations that others could never have with their friends or family. We will always be open with each other. I have never experienced something as unique as my relationship with my class, and I likely won’t ever experience it again outside of our group.
Allison Boarman, of Owensboro, Ky., is a member of the McConnell Scholar Class of 2023 at the University of Louisville. She is pursuing a major in political science and a minor in politics, philosophy and economics.