Ok... Today was WAAAAAY better than yesterday.
I actually left the apartment... :) haha
Math was at 7:45 and it went by really fast. The craziness of it was the my teacher walked in wearing an "In-Motion" dance team jacket (they're the LDS dance team around my neck of the woods). Kinda surprised me but it was nice to see something so familiar even though it was on my teacher.
After that I had about an hour break so my and my friend Joelle went back to our place, had a snack, and did some homework.
10:00 rolled around and I practically ran to Music and the Humanities. It was a lot of fun today. Even more fun since I had actually done the homework and knew what Brother Peck was talking about. That class went by fast too.
Then it was time for choir! :) I forgot how much I love choir. Seriously it's the best. We sang a bunch and the teacher in that class, Sister Ashby, is really cool. Waaaay better than the choir teacher from my high school that I had last year. The TA played a recording for us of a song that we're singing and it gave me chills... It's gonna be totally wicked! I'm super excited in case you couldn't tell :)
Group Vocal Instruction was right after that. This class is interesting. Sister Olsen is the teacher and she's funny old lady :) She wants us to think that she's 35 hahaha it was fun today.
I finally got to go home after that and ate some mac 'n cheese :) did some homework and got ready for the last class of the day.
Now this one, I had never been to before. It's my science class and it's only once a week. Wednesdays from 7:30-9:30.... kind of a sucky time for a class but whatever. My teacher is Brother Pettit and he is a huge nerd. He spent the whole first hour talking to us about bats and then for the second hour we watched a general conference talk but Richard G. Scott.... It's so interesting how there isn't a separation of church and state here. We say prayers at the beginning of every class and there's always connections to the gospel. I like it a lot. It's such a unique experience that you can't get anywhere else.
Ok well not that I've told you about my day I'm going to go to bed. Another busy day tomorrow.
Goodnight!
Love,
Q
P.S. my eye is a billion times better :) thank goodness for doctors. Mine even called me up to check on me today. What a nice guy :)
This blog is for advice for my two little sisters that I absolutely love. Every once in a while (hopefully often), I'll write a little piece of advice for them to help them get through their teenage years
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Day 2 (Why me?)
Today was a weird day.
I woke up this morning and my right eye was swollen shut. I seriously couldn't open it at all. This had happened once before a couple of weeks ago.
I called my mom and asked her what to do. She said that I had pink eye and that I could use the over the counter stuff that we had bought when this had happened before but that I should probably go to the doctor's office here on campus.
I called them and made an appointment and then decided to go back to sleep for a while until the appointment. I was NOT going to go to class with one eye swollen shut. Not only was it very painful but it couldn't see out of it. I literally felt handicapped.
11:00 rolled around and I got up and got dressed... I had a 15 minute walk all the way across campus... Ever wanted to be invisible? I definitely did today.
I left the apartment and walked very quickly to the office, hoping and praying all the way there that I wouldn't run into anyone I knew.
I got there and checked in. A couple of minutes late I got called into the back and the doctor came in to check my eyeball out. He asked if I wore contacts and if I had a cold. Yes to the first, no to the second.
He pried open my swollen eye and made me look at a very bright light (Yowch! No thank you) and then told me that it was infected but it might be something a bit more.
He said that sometimes contacts can cut off the oxygen supple to a cornea and that's what they had seemed to do to my eye. He said no contacts for a while and gave me a prescription for some antibiotic drops. I got them from the pharmacy and then I had the 15 minute (seemed like eternity) march home.
Luckily, I didn't run into anyone as I hurried home.
When I got to my place, I emailed my teachers apologizing for not being in class and explaining the situation. I got my homework done and that's pretty much all I did all day today. It was not the most exciting day and hopefully I won't have another one like it anytime soon.
The antibiotics worked very well and my eye isn't as swollen anymore (just a little bit) and it's still a bit pink but at least it's not bright red like it was earlier.
So classes tomorrow (FIVE of them!) and it should be fun.
Goodnight!
Love,
Q
I woke up this morning and my right eye was swollen shut. I seriously couldn't open it at all. This had happened once before a couple of weeks ago.
I called my mom and asked her what to do. She said that I had pink eye and that I could use the over the counter stuff that we had bought when this had happened before but that I should probably go to the doctor's office here on campus.
I called them and made an appointment and then decided to go back to sleep for a while until the appointment. I was NOT going to go to class with one eye swollen shut. Not only was it very painful but it couldn't see out of it. I literally felt handicapped.
11:00 rolled around and I got up and got dressed... I had a 15 minute walk all the way across campus... Ever wanted to be invisible? I definitely did today.
I left the apartment and walked very quickly to the office, hoping and praying all the way there that I wouldn't run into anyone I knew.
I got there and checked in. A couple of minutes late I got called into the back and the doctor came in to check my eyeball out. He asked if I wore contacts and if I had a cold. Yes to the first, no to the second.
He pried open my swollen eye and made me look at a very bright light (Yowch! No thank you) and then told me that it was infected but it might be something a bit more.
He said that sometimes contacts can cut off the oxygen supple to a cornea and that's what they had seemed to do to my eye. He said no contacts for a while and gave me a prescription for some antibiotic drops. I got them from the pharmacy and then I had the 15 minute (seemed like eternity) march home.
Luckily, I didn't run into anyone as I hurried home.
When I got to my place, I emailed my teachers apologizing for not being in class and explaining the situation. I got my homework done and that's pretty much all I did all day today. It was not the most exciting day and hopefully I won't have another one like it anytime soon.
The antibiotics worked very well and my eye isn't as swollen anymore (just a little bit) and it's still a bit pink but at least it's not bright red like it was earlier.
So classes tomorrow (FIVE of them!) and it should be fun.
Goodnight!
Love,
Q
Monday, September 10, 2012
Day 1 on the Alien Planet
So today was my first day of class.... And it was interesting.
First on the schedule was Math.... I'm taking a foundations math class because that's all that I need to do to graduate....
I walked into my class and the only chair open was one right smack in the middle of the front row. Well at least I knew I wasn't going to fall asleep. Plopped down in the chair and then the teacher walked in. She looked a lot like one of the science substitutes from Aloha but I knew she wasn't. And then she started talking and she said she was from Woodburn, Oregon. YAY! :D I was actually really happy to hear that. Class went by fairly quickly and we went over syllabus and stuff like that (typical first day of class).
8:45 rolled around and it was time for the next class.
This one was called Basic Musicianship (Music 171) and was all the way across campus... It started at 9:00. I was feeling a little stressed because I didn't know where it would be in the Snow building... I got there about a minute early and then class began. The first thing I heard when I walked through the door was the lovely sound of the VonTrapp family singers. Hahah the class is basically about solfege and it was going to be very interesting.
After that one I went to Music and the Humanities. This one seems to be exactly like AP Euro but with music incorporated into it. I loved AP Euro so, needless to say. this class is going to be AWESOME. I'm super excited. The teacher is very cool too. He's funny.
After this I went home because I had about an hour before I had the class I was going to walk into. I ate some lunch super fast (pasta and alfredo sauce) and then headed out the door.
Music 104... Group Vocal Instruction. I was on the waiting list for this class... No idea if I was going to get in. I went anyways and it was a lot of fun. The teacher, Sister Olsen, is a funny old lady that reminds my of my Grandma Joi. She's quirky and sarcastic.
I went home when all of that was done and tried, once again, to drop Music 155 which I was replacing with Music 104. It wouldn't let me so I called my friend, Julie Buss and she came over to help me. This was when we found out the bad news... I had to drop Music 171 if I was going to drop Music 155... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
I had to drop TWO classes?!
That's insane! Well I went into the office and a girl in there helped me out a bit. She helped me find a replacement class and everything seems to have worked out. I am now taking Music 104 instead of Music 155 and Music 312 instead of Music 171. And I am perfectly okay with it. Music 312 is the university choir and the amazing Sister Eda Ashby let me get into it (it was a closed class). YAY for amazing Mormon people :)
Ok well tomorrow morning I have Book of Mormon class at 7:45 so I should probably go to bed.... Goodnight!
Love,
Q
First on the schedule was Math.... I'm taking a foundations math class because that's all that I need to do to graduate....
I walked into my class and the only chair open was one right smack in the middle of the front row. Well at least I knew I wasn't going to fall asleep. Plopped down in the chair and then the teacher walked in. She looked a lot like one of the science substitutes from Aloha but I knew she wasn't. And then she started talking and she said she was from Woodburn, Oregon. YAY! :D I was actually really happy to hear that. Class went by fairly quickly and we went over syllabus and stuff like that (typical first day of class).
8:45 rolled around and it was time for the next class.
This one was called Basic Musicianship (Music 171) and was all the way across campus... It started at 9:00. I was feeling a little stressed because I didn't know where it would be in the Snow building... I got there about a minute early and then class began. The first thing I heard when I walked through the door was the lovely sound of the VonTrapp family singers. Hahah the class is basically about solfege and it was going to be very interesting.
After that one I went to Music and the Humanities. This one seems to be exactly like AP Euro but with music incorporated into it. I loved AP Euro so, needless to say. this class is going to be AWESOME. I'm super excited. The teacher is very cool too. He's funny.
After this I went home because I had about an hour before I had the class I was going to walk into. I ate some lunch super fast (pasta and alfredo sauce) and then headed out the door.
Music 104... Group Vocal Instruction. I was on the waiting list for this class... No idea if I was going to get in. I went anyways and it was a lot of fun. The teacher, Sister Olsen, is a funny old lady that reminds my of my Grandma Joi. She's quirky and sarcastic.
I went home when all of that was done and tried, once again, to drop Music 155 which I was replacing with Music 104. It wouldn't let me so I called my friend, Julie Buss and she came over to help me. This was when we found out the bad news... I had to drop Music 171 if I was going to drop Music 155... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
I had to drop TWO classes?!
That's insane! Well I went into the office and a girl in there helped me out a bit. She helped me find a replacement class and everything seems to have worked out. I am now taking Music 104 instead of Music 155 and Music 312 instead of Music 171. And I am perfectly okay with it. Music 312 is the university choir and the amazing Sister Eda Ashby let me get into it (it was a closed class). YAY for amazing Mormon people :)
Ok well tomorrow morning I have Book of Mormon class at 7:45 so I should probably go to bed.... Goodnight!
Love,
Q
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Maybe not...
So I was sitting in church today and I learned a lot. I told Mom that I was going to change my major and she told me how she felt about that. Basically she said that I was taking the easy way out. I was feeling really discouraged about being in music and doubting my talents and skills.
Today in sacrament meeting the bishopric spoke and I felt very strongly that I needed to stay with my major. It's going to be a long, hard road but I need to stick with it.
The main thing I learned in Sunday School was that we need to constantly improve ourselves. In Relief Society, we talked about faith. They did a couple of trust falls which was quite funny. But one of the girls described how we can apply this to our lives. She said that we are constantly having to do trust falls with our Heavenly Father. He is always there but we can't see him. We might get scraped up on the way down but He will always catch us before we hit the ground.
"If God can bring you to it, He can bring you through it." My roomie, Paige, said this during the lesson and the Relief Society president backed it up with Proverbs 3:5-6. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." This was exactly what I needed to hear.
So I'm keeping my major. End of story. I'm going to turn this semester over to my Father and hopefully, He'll help me accomplish everything I need to do.
George Albert Smith said, "It is this principle [faith]... that points us heavenward, that gives us hope in the battle of life. When we become confused, and find ourselves confronted by obstacles we, seemingly, cannot overcome, having faith in the Redeemer of the world, we can go to Him and know that our prayers will be answered for our good."
He also said, "Give the Lord a chance... The Lord has a way of accomplishing things that we are unable to do, and never asks us to do anything that he does not make the way possible."
Oh the amazing-ness of being worthy to receive revelation in Relief Society. Haha I am so grateful to be a member of this church and to have the opportunity to receive things from my Heavenly Father that He would want me to know.
"May the Lord increase our faith, and may we live to be worthy of it." -George Albert Smith
Love,
Q
Today in sacrament meeting the bishopric spoke and I felt very strongly that I needed to stay with my major. It's going to be a long, hard road but I need to stick with it.
The main thing I learned in Sunday School was that we need to constantly improve ourselves. In Relief Society, we talked about faith. They did a couple of trust falls which was quite funny. But one of the girls described how we can apply this to our lives. She said that we are constantly having to do trust falls with our Heavenly Father. He is always there but we can't see him. We might get scraped up on the way down but He will always catch us before we hit the ground.
"If God can bring you to it, He can bring you through it." My roomie, Paige, said this during the lesson and the Relief Society president backed it up with Proverbs 3:5-6. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." This was exactly what I needed to hear.
So I'm keeping my major. End of story. I'm going to turn this semester over to my Father and hopefully, He'll help me accomplish everything I need to do.
George Albert Smith said, "It is this principle [faith]... that points us heavenward, that gives us hope in the battle of life. When we become confused, and find ourselves confronted by obstacles we, seemingly, cannot overcome, having faith in the Redeemer of the world, we can go to Him and know that our prayers will be answered for our good."
He also said, "Give the Lord a chance... The Lord has a way of accomplishing things that we are unable to do, and never asks us to do anything that he does not make the way possible."
Oh the amazing-ness of being worthy to receive revelation in Relief Society. Haha I am so grateful to be a member of this church and to have the opportunity to receive things from my Heavenly Father that He would want me to know.
"May the Lord increase our faith, and may we live to be worthy of it." -George Albert Smith
Love,
Q
Week 1
So this is my explanation (?) of what happened my first week out here for college.
I was basically by myself from Monday-Wednesday. Everyone showed up on Thursday and I was so excited to see them. It gets kind of boring here when you're on your own. Thursday was hanging out with everyone on the I-Team. It was a lot of fun and I'm with a cool bunch of people. Get Connected is a three day thing for freshmen and it's a lot like EFY. There was a devotional-like thing where President Clark spoke to us. It was really cool. Thursday night there was a game night. My team is obsessed with missionary tag. We must have played it four times in one night. The MC would tell us to move to a new area and we'd just start the game back up again.
Friday was the academic day. We left the apartment at 8:30 in the morning and went to academic connections. We went to the "college" of our major. There were six colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business and Communication, Education and Human Development, Language and Letters, Performing and Visual Arts, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. I went to the Performing and Visual Arts one. It was very interesting and I realized that I might not want to be a music major after all. There's not much you can do with one. So I decided that I'm going to try for an English major with a music minor. There's two things that I love and are passionate about.
This complicates things a bit... Because that means that I have to rethink some things. I'm going to go talk to someone in the Language and Letters office on Monday. We'll see what I need to get done but I might just have to play out this semester.
After this I made this discovery, we went to the gym in the I-Center and had a freshman BBQ. It was really yummy. Then we went to a "Getting Involved" meeting. They told us all about these fun groups you can join and stuff like that.
That night, my friend Zach (who served a mission in Brazil) had a potluck kind of thing at his place. It was surprisingly good. My friend Joelle and I went and met a whole bunch of people. The best thing about college is that it isn't high school. There aren't any cliques and everyone's equal :)
After that we went back to our place and headed over to Elise's. We made brownies and chilled until it was time for the talent show. We went to the talent show together and it was really fun. There are so many people here who can do cool things.
Our group was having a game night after but we didn't wanna go so we snuck into Elise's place, made kettle corn, ate the brownies, and watched some movies. It was super fun :)
Saturday was pretty much a free day. I got to hang out with my friends and then have some time all by myself to get some things figured out. I got my TB shot tested and guess what? I don't have it. I could have told them that... but whatever. Saturday night was the I-Night and that was a campus-wide party. There was a dance and stand up comedians and a bunch of inflatables that you could play on. It was pretty chaotic :)
Now today... going to church at 1 in the Romney building. It's gonna be fun and we get to meet our ward.
So that was my week so far. Can't wait to see what the next one holds.
Love,
Q
I was basically by myself from Monday-Wednesday. Everyone showed up on Thursday and I was so excited to see them. It gets kind of boring here when you're on your own. Thursday was hanging out with everyone on the I-Team. It was a lot of fun and I'm with a cool bunch of people. Get Connected is a three day thing for freshmen and it's a lot like EFY. There was a devotional-like thing where President Clark spoke to us. It was really cool. Thursday night there was a game night. My team is obsessed with missionary tag. We must have played it four times in one night. The MC would tell us to move to a new area and we'd just start the game back up again.
Friday was the academic day. We left the apartment at 8:30 in the morning and went to academic connections. We went to the "college" of our major. There were six colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business and Communication, Education and Human Development, Language and Letters, Performing and Visual Arts, and Physical Sciences and Engineering. I went to the Performing and Visual Arts one. It was very interesting and I realized that I might not want to be a music major after all. There's not much you can do with one. So I decided that I'm going to try for an English major with a music minor. There's two things that I love and are passionate about.
This complicates things a bit... Because that means that I have to rethink some things. I'm going to go talk to someone in the Language and Letters office on Monday. We'll see what I need to get done but I might just have to play out this semester.
After this I made this discovery, we went to the gym in the I-Center and had a freshman BBQ. It was really yummy. Then we went to a "Getting Involved" meeting. They told us all about these fun groups you can join and stuff like that.
That night, my friend Zach (who served a mission in Brazil) had a potluck kind of thing at his place. It was surprisingly good. My friend Joelle and I went and met a whole bunch of people. The best thing about college is that it isn't high school. There aren't any cliques and everyone's equal :)
After that we went back to our place and headed over to Elise's. We made brownies and chilled until it was time for the talent show. We went to the talent show together and it was really fun. There are so many people here who can do cool things.
Our group was having a game night after but we didn't wanna go so we snuck into Elise's place, made kettle corn, ate the brownies, and watched some movies. It was super fun :)
Saturday was pretty much a free day. I got to hang out with my friends and then have some time all by myself to get some things figured out. I got my TB shot tested and guess what? I don't have it. I could have told them that... but whatever. Saturday night was the I-Night and that was a campus-wide party. There was a dance and stand up comedians and a bunch of inflatables that you could play on. It was pretty chaotic :)
Now today... going to church at 1 in the Romney building. It's gonna be fun and we get to meet our ward.
So that was my week so far. Can't wait to see what the next one holds.
Love,
Q
Monday, September 3, 2012
College Life! :D
Ok so I know that I've only been here for a couple of days and that I'm not even in classes yet but I feel like talking about life right now :)
So College... I never pictured myself actually getting here. I mean when you're in high school it doesn't feel like you'll ever get out of that place. Gonna be stuck in high school for the rest of your life!
But the senior year goes by sooooo fast. It was kind of crazy for me.
So that's one good thing.
Biggest tip ever... If you're paying for college yourself, work your butt off the summer before you leave. I know it's a no-brainer.... but I'm actually kind of glad that I had to give up my social life this summer. It was still fun and there were definitely some memorable experiences but I'm so grateful for the money.
Oh and when you get to college... even if you're not going to a church one (heaven forbid that you don't)... Say your prayers and read your scriptures. And don't just read them. Dive into them. Strap on your swimsuit and go for it :) It's pretty awesome and you'll get little love notes from your Heavenly Father where you least expect them to be :)
So that's what I've learned so far... I've only been here for two days. Also you should know that college is scary but fear means that you're growing. And it's so nice to be on your own haha
Love you guys!
Love,
Q
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So College... I never pictured myself actually getting here. I mean when you're in high school it doesn't feel like you'll ever get out of that place. Gonna be stuck in high school for the rest of your life!
But the senior year goes by sooooo fast. It was kind of crazy for me.
So that's one good thing.
Biggest tip ever... If you're paying for college yourself, work your butt off the summer before you leave. I know it's a no-brainer.... but I'm actually kind of glad that I had to give up my social life this summer. It was still fun and there were definitely some memorable experiences but I'm so grateful for the money.
Oh and when you get to college... even if you're not going to a church one (heaven forbid that you don't)... Say your prayers and read your scriptures. And don't just read them. Dive into them. Strap on your swimsuit and go for it :) It's pretty awesome and you'll get little love notes from your Heavenly Father where you least expect them to be :)
So that's what I've learned so far... I've only been here for two days. Also you should know that college is scary but fear means that you're growing. And it's so nice to be on your own haha
Love you guys!
Love,
Q
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