Is it just me or is everyone and their dog getting married?! It's insane!! I know a large number of people who are engaged or in great danger of becoming so very soon. It's almost like the latest fad of the season; it's a phenomenon that's sweeping my college!! People are saying that the marriage rates at Snow are nearing the percentage at BYU, a frightening thought! Just kidding, that's basically impossible. ;)
This engagement craze keeps bringing one image to my brain time and time again: Bambi. You know in Bambi when all the friends are walking along together and suddenly one by one they become twitterpatted and pair off with their girl counterparts? Well I feel as though it is definitely twitterpation season!! And I find myself in Bambi's shoes (7&1/2 in woman's) where he watches all his friends hook up and just shakes his head and continues onward, to later fall into the same trap by mistake. (I'm still safe, no one read into that weird!)
I've thought about this plague and I keep thinking to myself what can possibly be the cause of it? Do we still have some animal instinct in us to breed in the spring to better ensure our offspring's survival? If so, then in modern times do we find the other species more attractive come the approach of spring? Is it because the way the school year falls? One semester has already past where one can date and find their one and only, so spring marks the end of school and less stress which is a more logical time to marry. Maybe it's a chain reaction where one person gets engaged and everyone else takes note and starts to play with the idea within their own life causing a chain of engagements? Maybe it's a combination of many things?
In any case it's happening and I'm pretty shocked. I've thought about why I'm so concerned about this whole thing and I think that maybe it's not happening more this year than any other, maybe the only change is that this year I'm old enough to get married myself, so I'm more exposed to the situation. Hmmm... probably. That's a scary thought, but I'm safe...for now!
P.S. Congratulations on everyone who's engaged!! Megan, Bryant, Jordan, Jenika, Weipan, Erin, Miss. Stevens, Victoria, kid from band whose name escapes me, and Andrew!! Also congratulations for those people who are about to be engaged or told me of any plans... I won't say you're names but good luck, I hope it works out!!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
My College Life Thus Far
Alright! So I'm not that great at blogging, go figure. Well I've been at Snow College for quite some time now and it's basically been my life for the past 7 months so I think it deserves some mention. So I came to Snow all by myself eager to make some new friends and be independent. I moved in and found that I didn't really click especially with my roommates with exception of my actual in-room-roommate who I absolutely loved. Sadly as with all things in my life she moved at the end of last semester and I torn between liking having my own room, missing my roomie, and the fact that without her here my room becomes a mess very quickly and stays that way despite my struggles. The rest of my roommates are very nice, friendly girls and really pretty and stuff, we're just not really best buds so I mostly hang out else where's or in my room. They're fun to talk to though!
The school part of school is going really well! I got a 3.68 last semester which is my highest GPA ever!! I was super excited!! I made it on the Dean's List last semester and I'm hoping to do even better this semester. I was really worried about college and I didn't think I was going to be able to keep my academic scholarship (You have to have a combined GPA of 3.75) but it looks like if I really buckle down this semester, that anything is possible!!
I'm taking some pretty fun classes here, I'm in 4 different band classes and I have a love-hate relationship with them all. I love band and absolutely love the people in it, but I hate how much time it consumes and how I feel so not cool when it's all over (I made it in the Advanced Band... BARELY, I'm literally last chair) because I struggle a lot more than others. I'm in Acting classes and I'm loving it SO much!! Acting is really a huge love of mine and since I've come here I've grown a lot as an actress, I'm going to audition for the plays next year, cross your fingers for me! A class I took last semester that I really loved was Courtship & Marriage, and it sounds like it's a really pathetic class for girls who are trying to get married as fast as possible but it's not!! It was my favorite class ever and it applies to my life more than any other class ever has. If anyone goes to Snow I highly recommend you take this class from Poulson because it will change your life. I communicate better, understand people better, have a more realistic outlook, and just feel like it really has helped prepare me for life more than anything else ever has. I'm currently in a Developmental Psychology class which is really interesting. I really like this class, even though it's not an easy class because everything is so interesting and applicable. It's about the psychology of how people and children develop and it's really fun to learn about and I think it'll help me be a better mother when that time comes.
Something cool is I got handpicked to live in special housing next year. The easiest way to try to describe it is as a LDS sorority. Professor's recommend girls to live there who get good grades, live LDS standards, and are friendly girls. I got recommended and after talking to the man who owns the house I'm now going to live there next year!! It's really cheap and pretty nice, like it's an old house so it's not perfect, but I'm excited for awesome roommates because this year didn't quite work out as I would have liked. 7 girls live there and it's just said to be one of the best places you can live environment and roommate-wise which is great!! I'm also excited to make friends with some really good girls because usually I lack on the ammount of friends who are female, so I'm hoping this housing will help.
Awhile ago there was problems on campus with what I like to call "The Campus Creeper" who was a guy who was coming into girl's apartments and watching them sleep. There were also a number of attacks on girls on campus last semester. It's kind of funny because I assumed that hickville Ephraim, UT would be safe from all that, but it shows you're never really safe. Well in light of all this I have learned self-defense! Like serious rip-off-ear-bruised-crotches-pencil-stabbing self defense!! I feel a lot safer knowing this and I have the opportunity to teach other girls what I know which makes me feel better to know I'm helping others feel safer too. Part of me really wants to be attacked so I can use my awesome skills and seriously handicap the guy... but not a huge part of me wants that so I think for now I'll keep having people walk home with me at night and make sure I lock my doors.
Well I can't think of anything else really school related to talk about now except that I'm not super excited to start appling to other schools. The problem of picking a Jr. College (2 years) to go to is that I have to make the huge decision of what college to go to AGAIN come next year. I'm so bad at making decisions too... silly me!! Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure it out all over again. Well I promise to try harder to update this more and let you guys know what's going on with me.
The school part of school is going really well! I got a 3.68 last semester which is my highest GPA ever!! I was super excited!! I made it on the Dean's List last semester and I'm hoping to do even better this semester. I was really worried about college and I didn't think I was going to be able to keep my academic scholarship (You have to have a combined GPA of 3.75) but it looks like if I really buckle down this semester, that anything is possible!!
I'm taking some pretty fun classes here, I'm in 4 different band classes and I have a love-hate relationship with them all. I love band and absolutely love the people in it, but I hate how much time it consumes and how I feel so not cool when it's all over (I made it in the Advanced Band... BARELY, I'm literally last chair) because I struggle a lot more than others. I'm in Acting classes and I'm loving it SO much!! Acting is really a huge love of mine and since I've come here I've grown a lot as an actress, I'm going to audition for the plays next year, cross your fingers for me! A class I took last semester that I really loved was Courtship & Marriage, and it sounds like it's a really pathetic class for girls who are trying to get married as fast as possible but it's not!! It was my favorite class ever and it applies to my life more than any other class ever has. If anyone goes to Snow I highly recommend you take this class from Poulson because it will change your life. I communicate better, understand people better, have a more realistic outlook, and just feel like it really has helped prepare me for life more than anything else ever has. I'm currently in a Developmental Psychology class which is really interesting. I really like this class, even though it's not an easy class because everything is so interesting and applicable. It's about the psychology of how people and children develop and it's really fun to learn about and I think it'll help me be a better mother when that time comes.
Something cool is I got handpicked to live in special housing next year. The easiest way to try to describe it is as a LDS sorority. Professor's recommend girls to live there who get good grades, live LDS standards, and are friendly girls. I got recommended and after talking to the man who owns the house I'm now going to live there next year!! It's really cheap and pretty nice, like it's an old house so it's not perfect, but I'm excited for awesome roommates because this year didn't quite work out as I would have liked. 7 girls live there and it's just said to be one of the best places you can live environment and roommate-wise which is great!! I'm also excited to make friends with some really good girls because usually I lack on the ammount of friends who are female, so I'm hoping this housing will help.
Awhile ago there was problems on campus with what I like to call "The Campus Creeper" who was a guy who was coming into girl's apartments and watching them sleep. There were also a number of attacks on girls on campus last semester. It's kind of funny because I assumed that hickville Ephraim, UT would be safe from all that, but it shows you're never really safe. Well in light of all this I have learned self-defense! Like serious rip-off-ear-bruised-crotches-pencil-stabbing self defense!! I feel a lot safer knowing this and I have the opportunity to teach other girls what I know which makes me feel better to know I'm helping others feel safer too. Part of me really wants to be attacked so I can use my awesome skills and seriously handicap the guy... but not a huge part of me wants that so I think for now I'll keep having people walk home with me at night and make sure I lock my doors.
Well I can't think of anything else really school related to talk about now except that I'm not super excited to start appling to other schools. The problem of picking a Jr. College (2 years) to go to is that I have to make the huge decision of what college to go to AGAIN come next year. I'm so bad at making decisions too... silly me!! Oh well. I'm sure I'll figure it out all over again. Well I promise to try harder to update this more and let you guys know what's going on with me.
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