So, it has definitely been quite some time since I last wrote anything super significant in this blog. So, let's go journal-esque, shall we?
Since my last post, I have (surprisingly) been accepted to every college I applied to. It's been crazy and bizarre, but it happened. After freaking out for a long while, I pondered what decision to make for a long while. I've been really adamant about how SVU (Souther Virginia University) has been the greatest thing since the invention of devil's food cake, but there have been a view glimpses of time where I doubted that and leaned more toward a certain different school. Granted, this was before I was even accepted anywhere, so I just expected one of them to reject me and make my life a whole lot easier. Of course, that didn't happen. So, I ran to prayer a bazillion times with the thought still in my mind that SVU was perfect for little ole me. I still didn't feel one-hundred percent about it, though, even then. This was all within the twenty-four hour period of me being accepted to the last school I was to hear from; the school that had been plaguing me with glimpses of "maybe I should go there instead."
At the end of that twenty-four hour period, I was off to a tri-ward New Beginnings program with my mom (who got a new calling from being the Secretary in the Stake Young Women's Presidency to being the Second Counselor in the Stake Young Women's Presidency), listening to my "Christian Canticles" playlist (yes, all of my ipod's playlists' titles consist of alliteration), and I just got this punch in the spiritual gut that the place that kept inching in my mind with glimpses was definitely where I needed to be. It would be really cool if I could sit here and tell you which EFY song was playing as I got the punch, because that'd be pretty stinkin' awesome, but unfortunately, I was so overwhelmed by it all that I forgot to make note of the song that evoked such a spiritual experience.
So, basically, I'm going to BYU-Provo. I am beyond excited. I told my mom on the way home from that New Beginnings, but I wanted to ask opinions and such from friends that have been attending SVU or BYU-Provo before setting everything in stone. I officially announced it to family on Thursday night, to school friends on Friday, then to Facebook on Saturday, which obviously made it completely official.
Saturday, I (somehow) successfully executed a Murder Mystery Dinner for all the youth in the stake with 80+ attendants. I was a bucket full of nerves that night, but people have been telling me they had a good time and thought it went really well, which was really encouraging. I honestly didn't know what to feel about it except relief when it was over.
I'm sure there are a million and five things I could say about what I've done over this past month or so, but that's all that's on my brain right now.
Now, I will be leaving for Provo in 107 days. (They accepted me for Summer term!) Let the craziness begin.
Since my last post, I have (surprisingly) been accepted to every college I applied to. It's been crazy and bizarre, but it happened. After freaking out for a long while, I pondered what decision to make for a long while. I've been really adamant about how SVU (Souther Virginia University) has been the greatest thing since the invention of devil's food cake, but there have been a view glimpses of time where I doubted that and leaned more toward a certain different school. Granted, this was before I was even accepted anywhere, so I just expected one of them to reject me and make my life a whole lot easier. Of course, that didn't happen. So, I ran to prayer a bazillion times with the thought still in my mind that SVU was perfect for little ole me. I still didn't feel one-hundred percent about it, though, even then. This was all within the twenty-four hour period of me being accepted to the last school I was to hear from; the school that had been plaguing me with glimpses of "maybe I should go there instead."
At the end of that twenty-four hour period, I was off to a tri-ward New Beginnings program with my mom (who got a new calling from being the Secretary in the Stake Young Women's Presidency to being the Second Counselor in the Stake Young Women's Presidency), listening to my "Christian Canticles" playlist (yes, all of my ipod's playlists' titles consist of alliteration), and I just got this punch in the spiritual gut that the place that kept inching in my mind with glimpses was definitely where I needed to be. It would be really cool if I could sit here and tell you which EFY song was playing as I got the punch, because that'd be pretty stinkin' awesome, but unfortunately, I was so overwhelmed by it all that I forgot to make note of the song that evoked such a spiritual experience.
So, basically, I'm going to BYU-Provo. I am beyond excited. I told my mom on the way home from that New Beginnings, but I wanted to ask opinions and such from friends that have been attending SVU or BYU-Provo before setting everything in stone. I officially announced it to family on Thursday night, to school friends on Friday, then to Facebook on Saturday, which obviously made it completely official.
Saturday, I (somehow) successfully executed a Murder Mystery Dinner for all the youth in the stake with 80+ attendants. I was a bucket full of nerves that night, but people have been telling me they had a good time and thought it went really well, which was really encouraging. I honestly didn't know what to feel about it except relief when it was over.
I'm sure there are a million and five things I could say about what I've done over this past month or so, but that's all that's on my brain right now.
Now, I will be leaving for Provo in 107 days. (They accepted me for Summer term!) Let the craziness begin.
