Class Schedule!

I finally made my class schedule for next semester and I'm catching up on a ton of schoolwork that I've been allowing to pile up. Here's what I'm taking next semester:

Nutrition in Exercise Mon & Wed @ 9:30am
Strength Training Mon & Wed @ 11am
History of Jazz Tues & Thurs @ 9:30 am
Literature for Young Adults Tues & Thurs @ 8am
Applied Statistics Tues & Thurs @ 12:30

So, best of all, NO FRIDAY CLASSES! WOOO!

Sorry this post is so short! I've been busy as I mentioned. I'm home until Sunday and I left my camera at school so I can't really do much -___- But I'll be posting Super Sunday and oh man I just realized I never did What I'm Watching. Oh well.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

What I've Been Up To...

So I've been absent for quite some time. But as you might remember me mentioning, I have been in RA training & preparing for Residence Hall move ins.

Some things I did...

1. Create Doortags

I also bought fortune cookies to give them as well :)

 2. Made 3 Bulletin Board for our floor:

How to do Your Laundry

 Trivia Board!

How to Survive a ZOMBIE ATTACK! (haha that's a male suite)

3. Decorated My Door

I also completely inventories for my floor, but that's just paperwork. No pictures there

I'll try to post when I have another day off & something interesting to post about! 

For the Sake of Science....

So, over the summer I am taking Anatomy & Physiology I & II, I was prepared to put my feelings aside and have to dissect things but....not a cat. :(

In the first course, we dissected a rat which I was happy went a little better than I thought. I have NO problem at all seeing the guts and such but the dead animal does bother me. I really do ask my lab partner if we can put something over it's face.

But I'm in the second course now, and we've been learning off of a cat all week and I must say, its been difficult. I was expecting to cry, vomit, or faint and I hoped I wouldn't get a cat that looked like Weaver. Thankfully, it went swimmingly! Yes, I was a little upset when I first saw a dead cat (obviously) but with my experience at the shelter of the euthanasias and such, I guess my emotions were prepared.

After the initial shock and hanging at the back of the room until the insides were revealed (cutting is the hardest part) I actually learned a lot. We studied the heart, arterial system, veins, digestive track, respiratory, and reproductive. We are being quizzed on it on Monday & our group definitely did the best job. The worst part of the whole experience, is probably the smell.

This is an experience I will never forget. In a few different ways. Many people I tell this to will say "Well you don't have to do it, right? The school can't force you to do this!" But this is vital to my education and an excellent learning experience & I know that what I learned in the lab all this week will make me even better in my work with animals at the shelter. I will be able to detect if they're sick faster and maybe even know why, now that I know how a cat works. Inside & out. :)

I'm going home today and when I get home, I'm going to do my usual hugs & kisses to Weaver but this time they will mean so much more. 

The moral of the story is...

Get out of your comfort zone!

You will accomplish so much more in life if you try new things and take everything you can from them. I don't mean go out & dissect a cat. I mean...

1. Try a foreign food! As long as it doesn't have something you're allergic too, you have no idea how it will taste!

2. Take up running. Which is normally out of everyone's comfort zone (& was out of mine up until a few weeks ago!)

3. FACE YOUR FEARS (unless your fear is a grizzly bear or something that could seriously kill you.)

I recently overcame a HUGE fear in my life that I will probably save for another text-only post that no one will read. :)

Have a fabulous day & go learn something new!

**Sorry this post has no pictures, I figured you'd want to be spared of them!**

What I Learned My Freshman Year

-Rain/Snow boots are necessary.

-It’s okay (& accepted) to not go out and get drunk every Thursday night

-Take Vitamin C (especially when you start to eat Dining Hall food)

-Go to class! No one ever skips “just this once”.

-Earplugs would have been nice to buy.

-Stock up on snacks. Can you say BJs?

-You make the best friends of your life.

-The RAs are awesome!

-ONLY BRING WHAT YOU NEED! (Or you will be either out of space, or lugging trash bags of useless stuff home every weekend. I did both)

-Not just dummies use the tutor center

-Arrive 45minutes ahead of time to Bingo

-The Freshman 15 is very real.

-Buy disposable plates & cups. You won’t want to do dishes. Especially in a bathroom sink.

-Netflix is amazing.

-Board games are great time killers.

-There really isn’t much to do on the weekends. Yes they lied.

-Make sure you have first aid! Advil, band-aids, Neosporin, Benadryl, cold meds, etc. All very valuable in college.

-Try out different clubs and activities; you don’t know you won’t like it until you give it a chance!

-Getting an on-campus job opens up so many opportunities!

-Procrastination is an art

-You get along with your family so much better now that you don’t live there.

-Stumbleupon (as beautiful & amazing as it is) is your mortal enemy.

-Don’t buy a lanyard. You most likely won’t use it and will get something more practical.

-DON’T go home every weekend. Especially in the beginning of the year. The people that did, still do now.

-I learned educational stuff in all of my classes too :) That IS what I'm paying for after all!

This year was amazing & I can't believe it's already over! Next year will be even better! :D
Have any questions for me about college life? : )