Sometimes you just can't do it alone!!

So for the most part I like to be all independent like and that sort of thing. Well at my practicum which just ended recently, my supervisor wanted to have this goodbye party but frusteratingly enough everyone wanted to do it on tuesday except for me. (because I work all day on tuesday) So I finally decided that I would just get all of tuesday off of work and then I'd write the final paper for the practicum and turn it all in that day. So I did that and then went over to the good bye party and while I was there it was brought up that we don't have much longer before graduation papers have to be turned in. I must admit I had heard that the university doesn't warn people very well and so I was assuming they'd be due in like October for December graduation. So I randomly asked them when they were due to find out that they are due in about a month and it takes about a month to fill out the forms and that sort of thing. So luckily I didn't work that day (which actually is today that I'm referring too) and so I went and filled out the application and turned it right in. Basically to find out that I can't ever get the forms for three weeks, which is after the time that the application is processed. So yeah, if I had waited much longer...even a few days I'd be in very bad shape. Because I won't even be in Utah on August 5th since I'm going to be with the family in Philadelpia. So if I had waited for much longer I would have to pay $50.00, rather then $10.00 for turning in graduation forms late. Basically saying that I'm really glad that I did end up going to that goodbye party, even if it did only last for 20 minutes on a work day. Because alot of times it's just plain easier to do things on your own, but often times you miss alot of info if you try to do it all alone.

Rain rain go away come again some other day!

So one good thing about lots of rain is that it stops us from getting over heated. But for some reason it keeps raining at the most inconvenient times. For example a couple of us were hiking last weekend in Salt Lake and when we were coming back down it started pouring. Yes it was literally pouring for like 45 minutes or something like that and thundering/lightening. Also it was raining so bad that there was a river running down the trail after a few minutes and so we had to try to avoid the river as we were walking down the trail but we weren't very successful. So by the time we got off the trail and into the car we were completely wet...including pants, shoes, socks and all. So that is one time that this rain was inconvenient.

For the third time in the last two weeks I've been walking over to my practicum (it's easier to walk then to have to wait around for the bus) which takes like 20 minutes to walk to. I wasn't expecting rain all three of these times and so I planned to leave at the normal time to walk, not early for the bus. So everytime I've walked out the door and within five minutes it is suddenly raining, and continues to rain for the 20 minutes that I'm walking. And then I get there all wet, so anyways after the first time of this happening I finally decided this last wednesday that it was better to be late then to be all wet. So I got on the bus and then I found out at the transit center that the bus that goes over by my practicum wouldn't be going for another half hour. (some new thing they have come up with) So I still ended up having to walk for 10 minutes over there and I was still late, but luckily it was drizzling so I didn't get very wet that time. Then today I got on the bus again to avoid the rain, but one problem with the buses is that if your not at the stop at a certain time you might have to wait for 20 minutes. So I needed to get back within 20 minutes and so I ended up walking back to campus and I got all wet...again!!

But as I said the rain is nice because it stops us from getting overheated...it's only bad when it comes at inconvenient times. (sigh)

Such as life I suppose...!!

So yesterday my friend and I were talking to this new girl at church, and this new girl isn't a freshmen but this is the first time of not living at home. (so very similiar situation) And anyways she was talking about how she wishes that she didn't have to move this fall and could just stay in the same apartment. So my friend and I were warning her about not moving around all the time like we have done, because it gets annoying to have to move alot very quickly.
So here is our little warning list for all of those freshmen/people who are still going to be in college for a few more years:

1. Find a place you like and stay there, and don't move every time the school year or summer ends. (because it's easier to get involved with your ward and to know more people in your ward if you stay in the same spot)

2. Don't live with your friends...well that depends actually. Because I've been roommates with friends, but it is better to make sure that your not in the same room.

3. Don't avoid the math placement test or math classes in general, because if you do then you will quickly find yourself taking math 1010/1050 when your a senior in college.

4. Don't take to long to decide on a major, find one and stick with it. Because if you do wait to long then you'll be like me and graduating after five or six years of undergraduate course work. (it's very sad I must say)

5. If possible don't work while in college because that pulls your grades down alot more then you'd think. (but that's easy to say when you're at Snow College, but the Unversity is a completely different story)

Anyways, it's very sad that we've figured all these things out now that we're (my friend and I) basically graduated. To bad we couldn't have been forwarned beforehand, but you know even if we had been forwarned we probably wouldn't have believed it. Such as life I suppose...!!

The randomness of Logan!!

So I like going on walks around Logan, normally at like 7ish though...so that's it's really hot. Anyways, they're normally the same...but last night some funny things happened. I was coming back and acrossed the street from the bottom of Old Main I found this huge garden behind someone's apartment. I wasn't looking for such things but I was walking and suddenly looked over and there was this huge garden hidden between some apartments. But it was funny because there was everything in this garden, like corn, potatoes and etc. The other funny thing is that this garden was big enough to have like four rows of corn in it and probably four rows of everything else in it. It was funny considering I haven't seen to many gardens in the city of Logan, and I've been here for about three years.

Well, then I was almost to my apartment and as I was approaching I saw some people in my ward that are dating standing pretty close to my apartment. (out in the parking lot) So I didn't want to have them see me because sometimes it's awkward talking to couples since you know...!! Anyways when I saw that I went around the back of my apartment and tried to go in the slide door on the balcony. But it was locked and so I was standing there and then I decided to go out in our little yard in the back of my apartment and look around the corner to see if they were still there. So I went over by this huge tree that is out back and as I walked over I came to notice that there were christmas lights on this tree. When I noticed that I went to look closer and I came face to face with an angry looking duck which was sitting in this middle spot of our tree on a feather nest. It was quite funny actually, considering it's pretty high up from the ground to get to this duck nest. And besides since when do ducks have nests in trees? they don't normally fly high enough to get into a tree. So today I went out again to see if this duck was gone and it was still there on this nest in the tree, and it wasn't a very happy duck either. It was looking annoyed and making angry duck noises. (haha)

So those are the funny things that I came acrossed in Logan Utah last night...huge gardens hidden between apartments and ducks in trees.