Blog #15 Exams

Exams are coming up and this year is going to be over in just one week!! It is getting pretty stressful especially since i have my two hardest exams on the same day - Biology and History. I am glad in English we had to write a paper to be turned in the week before exams because that took a huge load off of my shoulders. My Calculus exam is on Monday at 8am, so that should be interesting considering my earliest class this semester is at 10am. I have not woken up in the 7am time frame since high school I think. Tuesday is my Sociology exam and I have a paper due in that class on the same day as well. Biology and History are my final 2 exams on Wednesday and I am afraid I am going to be slacking off since it would be my last day of exams, but hopefully that won't happen. Then after those two exams, I will be packing up my room to move home on Thursday--yayy I am so excited!!

Blog #14 My Summer Plans

This summer, I plan to relax and make money. I am going back home to New Orleans to live with my parents and brother and will be working for my aunt. I have to bring and pick up my cousins from their summer camps and bring them pretty much where ever they want. It is a pretty easy job and she does not pay me too bad either for doing it. I will also be exercising a lot to get in shape and laying out to get a tan. At the end of June, we are going on our annual vacation to either Gulf Shores or Disney World, but I am hoping we go to Disney even though it probably will be very hot and crowded.

I also will hang out with my family and friends and enjoy being a bum for a few months. I can't wait, just typing this is making me so excited to finish this semester and go home for summer.

Blog #13 Freshman Year

My first year of college has been an overall great success with many ups and downs. I did not know what to expect when I first got here. I actually thought I would hate being away from my mom, but it ended up being just the opposite. I made so many new amazing friends here and learned to be very independent. I have to admit that every now and then I did get a little homesick, and that was a great opportunity to go home, visit the family, eat a few home-cooked meals, and best of all, get my mom to do my laundry. My roommate Amelie and I became best friends over this year and I will miss her so much next year when she is in Baton Rouge.

I learned that having a boyfriend is not necessary for one to function because my boyfriend and I of three years broke up, and we are doing better without one another. I learned that friends and family are the ones who will always be there for you no matter what the problem or how late it is at night when you call or wake them up to talk to them. My friend Mary and I were great friends from our high school dance team, but I never ever predicted that we would be as great of friends as we are now since we have gone away to college together. I met Hailey through my high school friend Lindsay and we immediately became close friends and are even rooming with each other next year.

Overall, this year has been great and I will miss all the new friends I have made over the summer, but I know we will keep in touch with each other because we are already planning activities for the summer. I won't miss showering with shoes on, having absolutely no privacy, living in a filthy room, and the noisiness of the dorms. I have definitely grown over this past year for the better, and know I have become a better person because of it.