The next several hours were spent by the four of us hiking up the stairs to Cara’s dorm room, gathering as many of her belongings into our arms as we could, and hauling it down to the car. Cara worked at an amazing pace, never stopping to catch her breath or take a break. She was in just as good of shape as I was, which was incredible considering I had been working out every day to stay in shape for the upcoming football season.

Before long, it turned into a competition between Cara and I who ...