My Snapchat Memories are Slowly Killing Me – Her Campus

The opinions expressed in this article are the writer’s own and do not reflect the views of Her Campus. This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at CUA chapter.Each time I open up the Snapchat app I am bombarded with “one year ago today” memories. The pictures and videos I captured from last year force me to look at them every day, making me long for last year, and the year after that, and the year after that. Snapchat’s “memories” feature allows the user to save photos to a Snapchat specific camera roll, and Snapchat curates a private slideshow of “one year ago today” that shows the photos and videos taken on that day years before. I’m writing this on September 22nd of 2023, so the memories I’m seeing are from September 22nd of 2022, 2021, 2020, and so on. Let me be honest here – September of 2022 was an absolute highlight in my life, and September of this year is, well, not so much.  This time last year I was happily studying abroad for the fall semester in London. The memories and friendships that I made there are some of the most wonderful and
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