It's College Baby! :)

Dear everybody who reads this. COLLEGE HAS STARTED!
And I have to say... I love it. Everyone told me that I would and I would have a ton of friends, and guess what? I do! It's just wonderful! :) This week I had fun. I started my classes. Some of them are hard but some are pretty easy. My first class is Comm 1010. I have found some nice people in there. There is a very tall blond cute guy. Personally I think we should be friends. Best friends. But apparently i'm not cool enough. I already labeled myself as the nerd in that class since I  did an assignment, took a page, and everyone else took two sentences. And then the teacher told me to read it out loud, and that we could all leave because i'd explained the whole class in my assignment. So sadly I don't think super tall blond dude will be talking to me anytime soon. Unless he needs help with his homework. In this class there are also a bunch of hicks who think I won't get a job because I'm a woman. Or at least I'll get a dish washing job. And they were serious. I didn't ever think that i'd be called a feminist, yet when I got mad at them I was. Funnily enough none of them are married. Interesting... I wonder why. Anyways. I made them shut up when I proved how awesomely womanly I was when I took control of our group project. And today when they asked me if I got a job yet I replied " Maybe. Have you got a life yet?"  Smack down!!!
Anyways, I digress.
My next class is communication research. This one is full of upper classmen. And if you want to talk to a cute guy you have to check his ring finger to see if it's worth it or not. Most of the time it isn't worth it. Anyways. This one is hard. The professor looks just like the captain on Wall-e. (Sadly he sounds like him too!) My next class is interpersonal communication. That's like a discussion class. It usually doesn't have much homework. Which is very nice. But the professor is extremely weird... and old. And talks about her chickens, and her pierced toe, and how she had the knuckle taken out of her toe.  My last class is math 1040- statistics! I love his class because I understand statistics. Even though it takes me like two hours to finish my homework.
This weekend I also had fun, I went down to St. George and partied it up at Dixie State college with my cousins, went to DI, started a quote wall, went to a dance for two songs, exercised to Richard Simmons and many other things. I will now show you some wonderful parts of my college life, through pictures. :)

My roommate Crissy, accepting her childhood dreams.

The place I made for my roommates friend Blaine because he is here so often.

Blaine, in his spot, with the picture I drew of him.

All of blaines necessities.

Nobody knew about the face game here... so I brought it to SUU!

My beautiful friend Maddie- she is so funny! I did her hair. I know. I'm amazing.

Adventures in Walmart are a normal occurrence. Finding these gems... are not.

My friend gabby, at DI with her doll that had a bad run in with some bronzer.

Maddie's new look.

Crissy the professional racecar driver.

DI 3D glasses! :)

Our quote door after two days. There are a lot more now. :)

Alexis hiding beneath a blanket

My room is amazingly decorated. That's my wall.It's the best wall here :)

SUUmmer. (Haha see how clever I am?!)

This week has been a week of stress and of relief, as well as being totally and completely anxiety ridden to being as happy as anyone could possibly be! :) I'm talking about AP and IB scores, if you couldn't tell. I pretended like I didn't care when I was talking about them with other people but I think I was just in denial. It's fairly possible... haha. Anyways I realized I was not, no way, no how not caring about how I did on these tests. I realized this at about four in the morning on the day our IB test scores came. I pretty much had an anxiety attack in my bed. If you've ever had an anxiety attack, it's not fun to have them in your bed, let alone anywhere. So I tried to go back to sleep, and finally I decided to just get up and sit on my laptop and wait for results to come out. When they did I was extremely happy, because I had gotten my diploma. :) Then yesterday, I went to go check the mail and I teasingly asked my mom if there was any mail for me. My mom was on the phone and she threw my AP scores at me. That induced another anxiety attack. So I opened the scores and proceeded to run around my house being extremely happy, because of my scores! All of this results in my blog post. First of all: Because I obtained my diploma I have 30 free credit hours at SUU.So after being very excited about that I tried to figure out what exactly that meant. At SUU you have general education requirements (obviously) which are made up of different learning areas and some core classes you are REQUIRED to take. That, along with your general ed. classes for your major make up about your first two years. Then your next two years (or four, or eight or sixteen or whatever) you work on your major. Or you decide to forego one major and start all over with your gen ed requirements for a different major. Ha ha. Anyways. I found out that SL credits don't count for my gen education, and one of their core English classes can't have any AP or IB credit applied to it so you can't transfer out. However as I was looking at the website for SUU I realized that I was done with all my general education classes. Except three. The stupid English class, math and a computer literacy class. I also have two one hour classes that are required for the new freshman, which is pretty much my orientation that I go to in the first week of school. So technically I only have three classes to take, before I have to decide my major and start taking pre requisite classes for my major. I think deciding my major would be the best...
So here we are at the end of my blog and to the reason that I'm writing this. What do YOU, the reader of my blog, think that I would be good at in my life for my profession? Any ideas are appreciated because I would love to hear what you think I would be good at, and maybe it will spark some idea for me to suddenly know what I want to be when I'm "grown up". Haha. :)

The End! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DA BAUM BLOG!

Happy Birthday to my blog!!!! As I think of where I've come from when I started this blog to where I am now, its an interesting prospect. First of all the physical place I was when I began the blog is very different than where I am at this moment. Looking back if I had known that I would be typing this on a brand new laptop sitting in my own home where I am doing nothing because I've graduated, I would probably have cried. But I didn't realize that on June Third, 2009 that I would be graduated in a year on that very day when I started my blog. I was content on sitting at the IB room's computer, with Audrey and Amanda discussing things that I don't remember now. I do remember I had gone for a walk in the morning with Audrey and Annicka, to a park. I remember how much fun we had, and then we went to go back to the IB room and then my blog was created. Now I sit here realizing that never again will I sit in that room, comfortable with my surroundings, discussing things with a tight nit group of friends. I realize most of the people I saw, loved or hated, liked or disliked, I will never see again. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes I think that it's good- I definitely have some people that I am grateful that I won't have to see and resist my urge of punching them in the face... haha :) But mostly it's bad. I have loved every single person who went to Hillcrest, class of 2010. They all touched my life. They made me the person I am today and have brought strength into my life. First part of my high school career allowed me to realize that drama is annoying, stupid and to try to avoid it at all costs. I feel like I did this as best I could and tried not to cause drama myself. I've learned so much and feel like our group of seniors was like a family. I'm so blessed with my friends, who truly love me and my family (who have to love me. My friends choose to.) I am so lucky to have graduated with the class of 2010 from Hillcrest High School. I love you all!
This post has kinda become a rambling of ideas, I thought for a second that maybe I should rename it, but I realized that my blog has come from my junior year at hillcrest to my senior year, where I have grown into the person I am now, and for that I'm truly grateful. :)

I am blessed...

I am blessed...with so many amazing things. Some of those things are people. I just want to thank you all. You know who you are. You are my friends- the people who care for me, love me and I just want to tell you all - I love and appreciate you all so much! THANK YOU! :)

An annoyance...

Something small but that bothers me.

I have been looking through my emails and I decided I HATE it when people only type in all caps. It's so annoying!

1. It looks like you don't know how to use your key board, and 
2. You look like you're yelling. All the time. 

I don't know why it bugs me. If it offends you that it bugs me then go ahead and tell me and I'll apologize. But it really is annoying to me!

LET ME EXPLAIN. THIS IS WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE. AND ITS EVEN MORE ANNOYING WHEN YOU DON'T USE PUNCTUATION BECAUSE THEN YOU JUST LOOK EVEN MORE UNEDUCATED BECAUSE YOUR SENTENCES ARE JUST LONG RUN ON SENTENCES WITH NO FORM AND YOU JUST KEEP TALKING EXCEPT YOU'RE NOT REALLY TALKING YOU'RE YELLING AT THE TOP OF YOUR VOICE JUST THROUGH THE COMPUTER.
That's all. It bugs me. And if typing in all caps is fun for you then that's great, and I won't bug you. But once in awhile, write normally for me please. Especially if you're emailing me. Please. :)
THANK YOU
HAVE A NICE DAY



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