Things that will casually ruin your life: skydiving without a parachute, taking your SAT without a number two pencil and showing up to the airport without your passport.

There is nothing quite like a visit to Rome. Unless you are literally blind, you will be slapped in the face by architectural genius. At some points it’s so overwhelming you’ll just want to close your eyes, cover your ears and stop learning. But the history will creep in. They say Rome wasn’t built in a day, but you begin to wonder how Rome was built, period.