A letter from Oct 28th, 2021

Dear Kaitlyn 5 years from today, I'm currently sitting in College Library with Julia, working away because I have an exam in 240 and 202 tomorrow. I also had one in 201 today that didn't go so well...I thought I'd write ahead and ask if you made it? Did you get accepted into grad school on your first try? Second? Where'd you end up going, and what are you doing now? Right now I think I will end up at Madison for grad school. I know it can be really tough to get into, but I'm not sure where else I could go that Ryan would be happy to be at. I hope I'm working in some sort of clinical setting. I really don't want to work in a school, even though Ryan thinks that will be where I end up. I still really hate all my classes as of now, but they're also all intro courses. I hope grad school classes are more fun!! As for Madison, I LOVE it. I love love love my roommates too. I'm closest with Baylie and Alyssa, but I'm honestly really close with all of them. And were only 2 weeks away from my 21st so I'm feeling really excited!! I know Megan is coming and so is Kelly. It's a game day so it should be really fun! Ryan and I are just starting to look at apartments too. Hopefully we picked somewhere nice and it all went well? I also really hope we're married by now, or at least engaged. I'd also bet a lot of money that he's not teaching anymore. He loves Colorado, but I feel like with teaching he has extremely great and extremely awful days. This is where I see myself in 2026: I think I'll be married to Ryan. We won't have any kids, at least not yet. We'll be out of the midwest by now. I think it'll either be in Washington or Colorado. Definitely somewhere out west. I hope I've seen so many National Parks and beautiful places. I hope I've travelled. I hope I loved grad school. I hope I'm happy. I hope I'm an SLP living away from Wisconsin! :)