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For this part of the final, Autumn and I decided to collaborate to draw the beautiful Dev building. Both of us have lived in Dev during our undergraduate years, and had awesome memories hanging out in each other's rooms, telling stories, making jokes, having awesome laughs. We also chose this building, because Dev, in both of our opinions is the MOST beautiful building on the St. Bonaventure campus. We picked the arch to be or main focus, because it is indicative of a path, and a path that we have crossed many times: on the way to our rooms, on the way to classes, on the way to the parking lot, on the way to the Hickey, and NOW on the way to take graduation pictures to remember our Bonas memories forever!! Than you, Dev, and Bonas, for a wild experience of a lifetime! Autumn and I will definitely miss this integral part of out college experience!!!

For this part of the Final, Autumn and I worked together to create some inspirational messages in the Girl's bathroom in the Walsh Science building. We chose to hang these inspirational messages in the Walsh bathoom, because both of us are science majors. Autumn is a Chemistry major and I am a Biology major, we have spent hours upon hours in this building, working on lab, lecture, and even just studying. Walsh has been our home for the past four years, so choosing Walsh as our perfect place to hang up our post-it notes with inspirational messages, is most definetely one that bears a lot of memories, and meaning. I hope the messages do inspire other bio and chem major ladies that walk into this bathroom and check it out, as a way to boost their confidence, and motivation to persevere through these rigorous majors! Some motivational words we included: "Finish strong!" "Live Laugh Love" "You've got this!" "Be Your Best!" Amongst many other quotes!!!! You've got this!!!

For this part of the Final, Autumn and I collaborated to create a memorable nature-based art piece. We placed extreme care in selecting the natural objects that would serve as the centerpiece for our masterpiece. We chose dandelions which are very bright yellow in color and represent our personalities and our friendship as being very bright, positive, and pleasant. Additionally, the brightness of the dandelions indicates a bright (positive) energy and vibes that we give off daily. Using the dandelion flowers, we created a beautiful, strong sun! Which symbolizes the strong and bright energy that we radiate to everyone on a daily basis! We don't just radiate bright, positive energy, but we emit STRONG BRIGHT VIBES!!!!

For this part, I collaborated with Autumn to draw one of our favorite restaurants nearby campus. You may have already guessed it..... that's right! It's Applebees. My favorite thing to order is the cheeseburgers there and their famous riblets. This is our go-to spot to unwind after a busy work week. We would share many fun memories at Applebees, smiles, laughs, and celebrations! At Applebees, we would always share our biggest milestones, from birthdays, to passing our Senior Colloquiums and Senior capstone presentations. One place we will miss hanging out around will be Applebees! Applebees will surely miss us 🤪).

For the second part of the final, I went out onto the Allegeny Trail with some pink, white, and light blue chalk. Using the white, pink, and light blue chalk, I was able to generate a beautiful message that reads: "Tap in Not Out" I was also able to sprinkle some flowers onto the message, to make this message bloom and flourish. This is supposed to be an adventurous and ambitious motivational drive. Always participate, become involved, and be active in things you love and care about! You will make so many awesome friends, gain some awesome experiences, and live your best life!!!

With much pleasure, my friend Autumn and I have figured that since we will be graduating in a few short days. So we figured we could collaborate on these projects as a memorable way to remember and cherish our days at Bonaventure together! We decided to create a spiral of rocks to emphasize the center of our friendship (Bonaventure). Bonas is where we first met (initially as two very shy Chemistry lab partners), where we had our laughs, smiles, and fun! The rocks going further and further away from the spiral indicate time unwinding as we slowly reach the end of our St. Bonaventure Journey. We will be heading off to our next chapters: I will attend medical school in July in Florida, and Autumn is heading off to Sonography school (so proud, by the way!!). Even though our road and paths will diverge in the near future, we always remember that our friendship is bound by the center/focus--St. Bonaventure. St. Bonaventure is where our friendship began, bloomed, and flourished. This spiral indicates that even though we will be far apart after graduation, our friendship will always remain strong, connected, and intact. The car path marks and the ground smears also indicate that our paths have crossed in our lives, and they will reunite again in the future! I love you, Autumn. Thank you for being an awesome friend!