Awesome helpful Chemistry website
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073656011/student_view0/
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Senioritis
I am a senior getting reading to graduate from college, and I'm sick with "senoritis". Not the normal kind where you are so excited to graduate you can't focus on the present, but I am sick with worry and wonderment over my future.
My symptoms include inability to focus and regular mental distraction as my mind is filled with questions I can't answer: What do I want to do not that I am "free?" Where will I be next time this year? What is in my future?
Post-graduation seems both an exciting adventure and a deep dark abyss. I can't help but feeling that leaving college is like jumping (falling or being pushed...) off the edge of a cliff into the unknown. It's a leap of faith and an unpreventable falling forward.
Additional symptoms of my senioritis include increased sentiment. I find myself cutting out newspaper clippings and keeping ticket stubs and such relating to BYU and the experiences I am having at college. I always have my camera handy to take pictures of any good time. I have a list of "fun things to do and places to eat in Provo" that I am working on with my roomates (I can't believe we only have 6 weeks left together!). I try to go to any BYU sporting event or random BYU activity.
Today was the last BYU Basketball game of the season. Soaking in the atmosphere of the student section and letting the memories from this year flood back the reality of graduation hit me. I I don't know where I will be this time next year. But it likely won't be here. This is it. This was not only Fredette and Emery's last game at the Marriott Center, it was mine too. As my roommates embraced me and smiled sentimentally saying "this is the last game" I remembered a similar moment months ago after the last football game. These "last games" are like stepping stones moving me closer to graduation and the time when it will really be my "last" at BYU.
It's been a good four years. And don't get me wrong, I am READY to graduate and I realize graduating isn't dying, and I will probably still be around for lots of BYU games and such in the future... probably, but who knows.
All I know right now is this senior year has been a year that will be difficult to let go, and one that will be forever remembered.
My symptoms include inability to focus and regular mental distraction as my mind is filled with questions I can't answer: What do I want to do not that I am "free?" Where will I be next time this year? What is in my future?
Post-graduation seems both an exciting adventure and a deep dark abyss. I can't help but feeling that leaving college is like jumping (falling or being pushed...) off the edge of a cliff into the unknown. It's a leap of faith and an unpreventable falling forward.
Additional symptoms of my senioritis include increased sentiment. I find myself cutting out newspaper clippings and keeping ticket stubs and such relating to BYU and the experiences I am having at college. I always have my camera handy to take pictures of any good time. I have a list of "fun things to do and places to eat in Provo" that I am working on with my roomates (I can't believe we only have 6 weeks left together!). I try to go to any BYU sporting event or random BYU activity.
Today was the last BYU Basketball game of the season. Soaking in the atmosphere of the student section and letting the memories from this year flood back the reality of graduation hit me. I I don't know where I will be this time next year. But it likely won't be here. This is it. This was not only Fredette and Emery's last game at the Marriott Center, it was mine too. As my roommates embraced me and smiled sentimentally saying "this is the last game" I remembered a similar moment months ago after the last football game. These "last games" are like stepping stones moving me closer to graduation and the time when it will really be my "last" at BYU.
It's been a good four years. And don't get me wrong, I am READY to graduate and I realize graduating isn't dying, and I will probably still be around for lots of BYU games and such in the future... probably, but who knows.
All I know right now is this senior year has been a year that will be difficult to let go, and one that will be forever remembered.
Years ago, President Howard W. Hunter gave a talk at BYU entitled, “What is True Greatness.” He said: “The achievement of true greatness is a long‑term process. . . . It seems it always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time” (See Brigham Young University 1986-87 Devotional and Fireside Speeches, 115).
"A happy life isn't about getting what you want; it's about the attitude you develop toward whatever happens to you, an attitude that lets you grow."
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Word of the Day
- tog
- \TAHG\
- DEFINITION
verb
: to dress especially in fine clothing -- usually used with up or out
(THis word is dedicated to my sister :)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Cool Website
Here is another teacher's blog that I found and liked
http://www.imteachingfrench.com/?p=77
lots of good links
http://www.imteachingfrench.com/?p=77
lots of good links
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