OU, oh boy.

here i am, back at OU and going through training to becoming an RA. It has been an eye opening experience and I cannot wait to share with my residents that i am not here to monitor their every move as i once thought that RA's were there for. I am here for much more; to be their mentor and to promote their learning so that they can become all that they can by fulfilling their goals and developing important relationships with others. I hope that i can provide this for not only my residents, but the residents of the whole building. either way, i am excited about this new opportunity and am embracing it head on.

recently i have been thinking about changing my major, yes, again, but seriously, i do not feel like OU has fostered my learning thus far. I feel like because they have cancelled my major they don't feel as though they have to put as much energy into it anymore, but what i feel is that this is my education that i am paying for, and i should get just as good an education as someone in the school of journalism or any other college. One of my solutions to this problem has been to apply to a different college. I have sent in my application as well as my college and high school transcripts to Otterbein college to see what they have to offer me. I feel that being at a private college, i will get more one on one attention and will be encouraged more than i am at ohio university. However, i have always felt that if i had a different major than the now non-existent art education major, i would love it here and be really and truly happy. I have explored a few options and one of them is to transfer to the art history major. I would be able to finish the major by the end of the year, and my interest in the subject has peaked greatly after my latest art history course. The only problem would be getting into the classes that i have to take without technically being in the major. The art history major requires you to apply every spring and since, well that time has past, i would really have to suck up to the man and somehow go against the system in order to get into the program and graduate on time. For the most part i would need about 7 more art history courses and three quarters of a language, totally doable :) so anyways, that is just something that i have been thinking about because more and more recently i have been getting turned off by the art education major and the institution that provides the so called "major".

So i am trying to figure these things out right now and hopefully i will finally come to an answer. After 3 years of indecisiveness and misguidance i think that it is about time to find out what i am supposed to do.

goodnight athens, its good to be back

4 more days

Well, here i am, four more days till the end of the quarter and i'll be home. Im looking forward to going home, although if i could stay here i would. i would just love to take classes over the summer, but unfortunately i have to go home and work all summer, which is great and im gonna love it, and ill be able to pay back my parents for the work that was done on my car and maybe even put some money towards my hawken loans!!! so that should be good. I have a feeling that this is going to be a great summer too. i'll be working, hopefully some of my friends will be home for the summer, and ill hopefully get to spend a lot of time with my niece audrey, especially because i work about halfway in between my house and kates.
today im writing my papers that are due tomorrow and wednesday and then maybe working on my livetext account, which i need to write reflections on all of the assignments that i did for my computer class, but hopefully thatll only take a few hours. If i really feel like ms. productive today, i could get it all done and then i dont have to do anything for the rest of the week, but knowing me, ill probably wait till wednesday to do it ;)
I wrote a song on the guitar the other day and kinda like it, i just started playing some chords and some words popped into my head so wrote them down lol...i think that it might sound all the same, but im trying to tweak the chorus a little bit so that the song doesnt have the same structure throughout.
other than that news, nothing is really going on. my parents came down on saturday and helped me move out. They took a whole car load of stuff so that ill be able to take everything home haha. i was glad that my dad was able to see my apartment and it was really fun. we had a cookout with abby, matt and kevin and we ate hotdogs, chips and beans, and then we made sundaes!!!!! :p yum! well if i dont get back to my paper now, ill never get back to it, but i think that itll go well seeing as ive done over half of it in 15 minutes. take care all!

oh what a day

oh man, this day has surely been a roller coaster, it started off with the horrible feelings that i was once again slipping through the cracks of ohio university's system..but eventually i conquered and got into the classes that i needed!!! so i was really excited after that! and then, to make things even better, i got my placement for what dorm i will be RAing in next year, GAM!!!!!!! it was my number one choice and well, i guess that someone loves me because i got placed there! im on the same floor that abby and i lived on last year, 3rd, and ill be in room 354, my friends old room :) so i am super stoked about all that stuff....later tonight i went to my friend's program at brown hall, it was self-defense for women, and it was really fun. officer brandon was hilarious and really great. Sam and i had a blast being partners and threatening each other with our menacing moves!! haha..this is a short one, i want to try and see if i can maybe get a song together to sing at coffee house this friday at HAWKEN!!!!! of all the 11+ years i have been going to coffee houses, i have no done one thing because ive been too shy, who knows, maybe this time itll be different....

ooh, ive also gotten my braces off and got to see my niece last week, she is tooooooo cute!

goodbye for now
sleep tight athens
xoxo