finals week has been breezy. last week was h-e-double-hockey-sticks. and like I said, this week has been a real piece of cake. 7 days ago, when Thursday was over, I hit the bottom. extremely relieved, I started vegging. on Saturday I went out of my apartment once to take the trash out. I have such potential to be a total loser.
but this week, finals week, has been busy and all I have yet to do is turn in my creative writing portfolio. big whoop. that class turned out to be a real dud. as you've noticed the past 4 months, my writing skills have taken a downturn. I don't know if it's thanks to that class, but it definitely didn't help. one important thing I gained from the class was a knowledge of poetry. I don't know if you'd call it knowledge, I don't know very many details. but I really enjoyed reading it, discovering it. I had never read poetry before, nor written it. and I found it a new way to express myself--a different avenue than the personal essay which I drive frequently.
my international development class was interesting. while enduring the intro course, I was miserable. I had decidedly changed my mind about minoring in it. but now, at the end of the course, I really really enjoyed it. my professor, though sometimes lacking in organization or powerpoint skills, was inspiring. she has lived her whole life helping people. I want to do that. about a month ago, I withdrew my application to do a field study in India (before the mess all happened). I'm still going to India, just not to do a field study. I realized I am not a seasoned enough learner/journalist/student/researcher to invest myself into a research topic for a year. maybe later though. so I'm still unsure about the development minor. I'll probably do it. when I go to India it will give me about half the credits I need to get the minor. so...I'll probably do it.
LDS marriage & family turned out to be one of the best religion classes I've ever taken. I learned a lot and probably failed the final. nothing ever grew. twice. Doctrine & Covenants was good. not everything I look for in a religion class, but you live you learn. music 101, glad to have taken it. sad I didn't need it to graduate. why do I do that to myself?
next semester is going to be a whirlwind. working a full 20 hours a week in addition to some of the hardest classes in my major, I'm going to be really busy. I'm scared, but excited. I'm on the verge of wishing I could just start next week. I can already tell the holidays are going to turn me into the anti-student. vegging, shopping, eating, reading for pleasure. it might be better for me to just keep going while I've got some momentum.
all in all, I am so glad to be here. there are bathrooms in every building--that is such a blessing. they are all really nice too. I just love being here. I can't look at my career at BYU objectively. I never thought I would go to college here until I came here. and it is the best place I could possibly be. I absolutely love it.
and. I've decided the weather isn't going to get me down in 2009. truly. it's time I gave winter a chance. so I'm going to purchase boots. and then I'm going to add a coat.
view from my kitchen window the size of the wall.
view from my kitchen window the size of the wall. 
1 comment:
really? flip flops just aren't going to cut it any more? I HATE that... we just really don't deal in coat and boots do we?
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