Slacking!

I love Maroon 5. I'm basically obsessed. And, the fact that Christina is in this song just makes it SO much better. This song is so catchy!

Well, it has been QUITE an eventful almost month! I moved out of my house in Dothan... It was so nice & lovely. Large on the inside....

Now, I've moved into this TINY tiny little dorm room...

But, on the plus side, today is the second day of classes. After an exhausting Bid Day (yay for our 67 new Kappa babies! SO HAPPY!!) & a trip to Dothan to get my LAST PAY CHECK, school is finally here.

I've managed to procrastinate so I have absolutely NONE of my books, especially the ones that I so desperately need. It's ok though, I've got them & they are being delivered! Really it's my two French classes I'm worried about. I'm trying to get as much French into this semester as I can so when January rolls around I'll be on top of it!

I'm moving through a state of disbelief and panic throughout the day. Disbelief that I'm back in school & that it's my last semester with most of my friends... And PANIC that next semester I'm going to be almost halfway across the world & miss some very important people in my life. I chose this, and I am under the firm impression that I did not choose incorrectly. This will make me stronger as a person. I believe that 100%. If my relationships can survive this, they can survive anything!

My engineering classes are as follows:
Professional Practice
Manufacturing Systems
Scheduling and Project Management (("really it's more Scheduling Theory" .... WHAT?))
Statistical Quality Control

My Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty packed, and once SWE meetings roll around, once a month thank the skies above!, then my Thursdays will be packed from 9:30 AM til 9 PM. Which I'm slightly excited about. I'm an assistant/co-chair Membership officer for the semester to help out a new officer, since I'll only be here for this semester it just seemed easier to help than to just sit by on the sidelines & watch it roll right past me.

My baby sister (she's 16 now, how time has literally FLOWN by me!) came to visit today and yesterday with her friend Elizabeth & I had such a wonderful time with them. They're quite hilarious and they want to know so much. They're about to start their JUNIOR YEAR at MPHS... Crazy, I remember starting my junior year. It was so strange to look back into the recesses of my mind and think about all of that.

End of Junior Year?!

January of Junior Year...

But, what's even more crazy & slightly scary is that MPHS has this gossip twitter account, where you can submit stuff to the account and they'll tweet about people. As in, ACTUAL PEOPLE's NAMES and information about them! I cannot believe teenagers have become so obsessed with being rude & gossip-y that they've decided to do this. It may seem like a joke & funny, but to someone else, it's real life. My sister & her friend don't like it, but they don't want anything rude/false said about them, so they continue to follow it on twitter.


To me, I just am in shock that someone out there is willing to risk lawsuits for bullying online. There's also the whole, "freedom of speech" debate, and I understand that. But a childhood is a terrible thing to lose/waste. I grew up too fast, being an older sister to my two siblings. I didn't go out on the weekends, I worked at 8 am every Saturday my Junior & Senior year, worked two Saturday nights a month, and went to church Sunday mornings. I was in IB & I babysat my siblings, making sure they did their homework and went to bed on time. My parents are wonderful, wonderful people, but they're also busy. I became the third parent of the family, and I've never been able to fully shake that.

I love my siblings like they were my own children, and although they're not, I am proud of them when they accomplish things & sad when they face hardships. I slightly wish I had not had as many responsibilities as I did when I was a teenager, but they made me who I am today.

I love my family :) And I'm super excited to see them this weekend! YAY!