Mondays

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Mondays. On one hand, the weekend is over, and I have to get back to school and life, which can be pretty sad. And usually I am exhausted on Mondays, especially this Monday because my dog seemed to think it was entertaining to howl at sirens at odd hours of the very early morning. But on the other hand, it's the start of a new week, which is always a good thing I suppose. Also, it rained today, which contributed to the overall goodness of this particular Monday. And this semester, I only have institute classes on Monday, which is always a good thing. But still, I think I still prefer Fridays :)

In other news, I just started my fourth semester, and I am currently finding it difficult to survive Pathophysiology, but I'll make it :) It's very interesting, there's just a lot to cover in a relatively short period of time. Speaking of which, I should get off the computer and study, or at least get some rest. :)

Books!

I just bought Villette, Moby Dick, The Souls of Black Folk, The Pilgrim's Progress, Little Women, and Hard Times. And I am going to read them, probably in that order. :)

Also, I got new strings for my viola for Christmas, and they make all the difference :)

I sang in the rain today...

It was fantastic :)

(The rain, not so much the quality of the singing ;)

New Year

It's almost 2011! I'm pretty excited for the end of this year. It's been long and stressful and while I'm grateful for everything I've learned and people I've met, I'm not sorry to see it go. I've signed up for some classes that will actually be fun, and I'm working on being more organized and efficient. A lot of my classes are online too, so no more 12 hour school days! Woo hoo! My goals this semester are to keep up with all of my assignments, make time for fun stuff, read scriptures more, watch TV less, run 4 miles without stopping, be happy, get into the nursing program, and survive Pathophysiology. :) I'm also going to get to work on my bucket list, which should hopefully be pretty interesting. Updates to follow. Anywho, Merry Christmas and Happy New Years. :)

December

Well it's December. I have one more week of school and then it's Christmas break!! Woohoo!! So that's about it.... :)

I Heart October

Lately I've been trying to be more patient with life and stop wishing it would go faster. I realized that I'm stuck in the present so I might as well have fun while I'm here. So after not liking college for a year and a quarter, I am actually enjoying it. This probably has to do with the fact that it is cooling down and I actually like being outside walking around campus now :)

I take most of my classes on the downtown campus, and microbiology is by far my favorite. I am also meeting a lot of awesome pre-nursing students all of whom I hope make it into the program. Sadly we probably won't all make it in because not very many do, but I keep hoping anyways. Institute is awesome as always and I've already got my classes for next semester picked out and they are with a couple of my favorite teachers which will be awesome.

I've also been going to a student ward which is pretty fun and I got called as a ward missionary. I was scared to death when my bishop gave me the calling but it's turned out to be really fun and I get to work with a great group. It also helps that my ward has a ton of ward missionaries so there's lots of support:)

Anywho, nothing super exciting has happened lately, I've just been trying to keep up with my classes and work on my reading list. My next goal is to finish reading John Adams, which I started a while ago but other things got in the way. Also I have been watching a lot of movies this weekend because my brain needed a break after all of my midterms :) So we went to see RED for my mom's birthday (I loved it, it's hilarious), and on Saturday I went to my friend's house and watched 3 and a half of the Star Wars movies, and last night I watched Waking Ned Divine. Now that my brain is officially melted, I can get an early start putting it back together tomorrow morning :) I have several projects coming up so the next couple weeks will probably be kind of crazy, but then the Holidays will be here and I will get a break for a couple weeks before I get ready to start putting my application together for the nursing program! o.O I'm trying not to freak out.

So that's about it for now, I hope everyone has a fabulous Halloween!! I'm so excited!!

Oh and also, I saw this picture and I think it's one of my new favorite pictures of all time:

Random, Take 2

So I started blogging and it was automatically translating it into Hindi, which was weird, and then I realized I accidentally hit the translate button. So here we go in English:

So here's what I've been up to lately:

1. Studying! A lot.

2. Reading: recently, Fablehaven 5, and Mockingjay

3. Occasional student ward activities

4. Sleeping, sometimes

And that's about it :) I'm loving my microbiology class, it's amazing and I'm learning a ton. My other three classes I could do without, but at least I'm getting them finished :) I'm also taking a Book of Mormon class at Institute which is awesome. I'm also volunteering at the children's hospital, and last week I got to spend a few hours with a newborn baby and he was so tiny!! It was probaby the best day of volunteering I've had so far. He was so sweet and I even got him to smile a couple of times :)