2014 will be a great year! It's 1:46 am right now so I will blog more tomorrow but I just can't believe it's January and the start of another brand new year! Yay for 2k14!!! On New Years Eve I went to a friends house to party! We watched Back to the Future and had treats, played games, and talked. We counted down, watched the ball drop, made fun of Miley Cyrus. There were a lot of people so it was really fun. On New Years Day we visited Nana, saw Frozen, went to Coco's and dad, mom and Ruby and I went to dinner. I'd been wanting to go to Rio Grande for awhile so we drove up to SLC. When we got there it was closed! So, change of plans, we went to Royal India in Bountiful instead. I'm so glad we did!! I love Indian food and it was delicious!! We got garlic, regular and a sweet naan and lamb sagg, coconut chicken and butter chicken and a mango lasse! Heaven. It was fun to just spend time with my parents and Ruby. They are really good about taking time to give u...
I loved living in a dorm my first year. You have to be completely accepting of every possibility in a roommate, and love whoever it is. Some good advice I got was to just stick with your original major and get the degree. Changing it can add time to your 4 years, and most ppl don't end up exactly using their major anyway. The degree is what's important, not necessarily the specific major.
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I lived in a dorm and loved it, too. Since I don't have sisters, that was a real adjustment to say the least. Dorm life isn't really conducive to stuyding, however. I like your mom's advice about majors. To that I would add, find a really good academic advisor who will keep you on track with classes. I graduated with a ridiculous number of credits -- almost double what I needed for a degree. I wonder if I could have had a double degree with better streamlining of courses. I took certain classes for the fun of it, and I don't regret that at all. Yet in my very last quarter I discovered I still had to take some dinky classes to fill my generals, because other ones I had taken didn't fit the holes.
ReplyDeleteGolda what an exciting time for you!
ReplyDelete1. my favorite part of my college experience was the environment. I LOVED that the gospel was incorporated into my secular courses and honestly don't know how I could have studied psychology without it. I also grew to love my professors and the school work in general....if you can't tell I want to go back! ha
2. Totally. It was SUPER hard for me to decide where to go. I had a couple of options and a dance scholarship to a different school. However, I am so happy with the decision I made.
3. I did not stick with my same major, but it ended up being great! I also appreciated the classes I took for both majors.
4. Living in the dorms your freshman year is the way to go. It was also the norm where I went so my friends/roommates were freshman too. I would check out the "culture" of the dorms at the university you are interested in to make sure it is a good fit for you.
(one last piece of advice: My only regret about my college experience was that I took time off from dancing. If you love it, do it. That doesn't mean you have to major in it, but usually you can still take classes and try out for companies. Also, if you are not the best when you first get there don't give up. I did that and was so sad to see all the girls who were in my beginning class make the highest ballet company by our senior year). Cool thing about college is, you can take dance classes any semester you feel like it! Best of luck, it is such a grand adventure:) Let me know if you have any questions!-Megan