Semester Blues
Another one of my favorite episodes of Gilmore Girls takes place in the final season of the show. Rory is entering her last few months of undergrad at Yale and we get to see a part of her character that we don’t really get to see much of throughout the show. Rory finds herself alone at her apartment that she shares with her boyfriend, Logan, who is currently away in London. Two of her friends, Lucy and Olivia show up at the door looking for excitement. Lucy and Olivia are side characters that Rory met at an art show sometime during senior year when she was writing a piece about it for the Yale Daily News. I really enjoy these two characters, Rory maintains many of the same friends during the show and these two sort of came as unexpected. I’ve heard a lot of people say that friends in college always happen in the most interesting and unexpected ways. Sometimes it takes until senior year to find your best people and that makes me look forward to my next two years here at college.
After Lucy and Olivia rummage around Rory and Logan’s apartment they find that they are no less bored so Rory suggests that they take a trip to Stars Hollow. She says there isn’t much to do but Lorelai isn’t home and they would have the place to themselves so they might as well. The three of them make it to the Gilmore household and Lucy and Olivia entertain themselves with Rory’s height chart on the bathroom dorm and the pots and pans stored in the oven.
The night truly kicks off when the three of them find some old hair dye that had been inherited over some years. Rory ends up with neon pink highlights, Lucy with neon green, and Olivia with neon purple. There is a cut to the scene of them on the bathroom floor giggling over their new hair and fantasizing about how crazy it is that their college career is nearing its end. This causes Rory to break out in tears in fear about how it’s all coming to an end. I remember watching this episode for one of the first times and feeling a sense of longing for how Rory was feeling. Not because of the impending doom that I’m sure will hit me once it’s my time to graduate college, but because I wanted to know what it felt like to have accomplished something big.
With sophomore year coming to an end, arguably with this spring semester being my most difficult one yet. I feel a lot of those same emotions, just in a different way. For the first time I won’t be returning home for a summer and even though I’m grown it’s been hard to accept the fact that I am on my own now, although I have so many people in my corner at the end of the day we are all alone with ourselves which is terrifying and invigorating. There is still so much time in my college career and I am trying to remind myself that it is okay to slow it down once in a while. I will have plenty more crises, maybe some leading to neon highlights on some strange bathroom floor.
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