Happy Dance!

The tender mercies of the Lord manifest themselves in interesting ways sometimes, but I am ever so thankful for them!

The past couple days, I've been totally stressing out over school, graduation, and finding a job after I graduate. I was about ready to tear my hair out! But yesterday, I felt it all turn around. Through the grace of the Lord, I was able to find time to re-write my resume and coverletter. Then, as I was browsing through blogs, they all seemed to lead me to non-profit foundation blogs. It felt like a miracle, like God was saying: "Don't worry, you have tons of options, we'll figure it all out together. Trust me." And I definitely do.

Then, to end the night, I was in the library working on this statistical analysis project that I've been working on for about 10 hours over the past week (with 4 hours sunk into downloading a program that didn't work), when all of a sudden, I realized it was done! Done! DONE!

You Can't Stop the Beat was playing on my Pandora, and I almost started doing a happy dance right in the middle of the library I was so happy! Life is good!

'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round And my heart's keepin' time to the speed of the soundI was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way 'Cause you can't stop the beat!

T-minus 46 days and counting!

Ok, so I'm just a little bit excited to finish my last semester of college, and I'm just a lottle bit ready to leave BYU-Idaho and start a new adventure. So excited in fact, that I may or may not have (ok did) made a count-down chain.

I started out with 60 links on the chain and now I'm down to 46! Woo-hoo!

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Sharing a bathroom with 5 other girls can yeild pretty frightening results.



Hair and makeup all over the sink and counters. Hairspray buildup on the counters and mirrors. and most disguisting, toothpaste gunk (the scientific term) in the sinks. Bleck!!!

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Ah! That feels much better!

Heaven When We're Home

This is the song I am currently in love with. The lyrics are amazing! Hope you enjoy!

We're all in the same boat

My Capstone (B 499) class is very challenging, and lately I haven't felt smart enough to be in this class. It's really gotten me down. I've also been feeling so confused in my International Econ class. I felt so stupid and alone. But last night, I asked my sweet roommate how she was doing and she burst into tears because she wasn't understanding her accounting class and felt so stupid and alone. We talked for a while about what we were both struggling with and ended up laughing and feeling much better.

Then today, in my Econ class, everyone started talking about how confused they felt about our course work because our teacher is so scatter-brained.

It just goes to show, we're all in the same boat. None of us is ever truly alone. Everyone has their struggles in life. Sometimes, I start to think that I'm the only person who's struggling with a particular problem, when in fact, there are lots of people around me that are going through the exact same challenge. And when we let each other in, and build each other up, we can overcome any obstacle that stands in our way.

Survived the First Week

I've completed the first complete week of classes. Technically, classes started a week and a half ago, on a Thursday, but since there were only two days of classes, I didn't really think that counted as the first official week.

Conclusions I've reached in this first week:

• I'm grateful for clean-checks - I hate having a messy apartment
• I, luckily, have good roommates this semester. And I'm slowly warming up to the girl that I share a room with
• My Communications and English classes are gonna be cake
• But B499 and International Econ may just kill me - at least they'll maybe balance each other out
• Web Design will be time consuming but not too hard

And last conclusion:

• I'm glad this is my last semester, I'm feeling so ready to graduate and start a new adventure. I want to be done with college. I just have to make it through this last semester.
• I'm going to make this last semester a great one!

I also have another decision to make: the ward that I'm in is so young (60% freshman). I'm not sure I belong there. I'm going with my roommate to check out the local singles ward here in town to see if we feel like we belong there instead. Then I have to decide which ward I want to go to. I want to make the right choice. Any advise?

Down to the Wire

This is my last Sunday in Salt Lake until December! Tomorrow, I head up to BYU-Idaho for my last semester and Thursday, classes start. I'll be taking Communications 111, English 252, Web Design, International Economics, and my Capstone (which is my final business class that is a culmination of everything I've learned these past four years and I have to put it to practical use with a real company). But all that I can handle, what I'm really nervous about is, as always, what my roommates will be like. For me, if I have good roommates, everything else is so much easier. I can handle hard classes and being in a ward that I'm not really fond of. But if I don't get along with my roommates, life is so much harder. I've had some amazing roommates and I've had some terrible roommates, so please this semester, let me have the former. Wish me luck!