Finale.

This week has been a crazy one. It's finals week. My first experience with real, stressful, life depends on it schooling. I had to do well on my test to pass my classes and get credit.
You have to have a C- to get the credits for your classes at USU.
I passed my first final and was feeling really good about myself.
That made it so a passed the class with a C.
That's right. I pass and get credit.
I had a brief second of feeling bad for myself when I realized this was my first C of my life but then I realized,
 Hey! It's college. It's so much different then the schooling you've been involved in the last 18 years and you survived and get credits.
So I felt better. Yeah I didn't get straight A's like my sister did her first semester but I'm not my sister. And I still feel good about it.
College is hard and it's a lot of work. 
This week I learned how to work and study.
I studied my brains out. I did 4 reviews for biology and read 8 chapters for Institutions.
Mike, the little sweetheart he is quizzed me and helped me remember stuff that actually ended up being on the test! That's why I love him. What a sweetie.
I took a break from my mania of a week and drove down with him to SLC on Wednesday. We hung out with his mom, went to lunch, watched tv, the whole thing,
Then we went to out Alma Mater. Brighton High School's Christmas Concert!
It was weird.
Weird to be in the audience.
weird to listen to Dolci and not be in it,
weird to be an Alumni singing First Nowell-which I wrecked btw.
weird to see everyone for the first time since Graduation.
weird to just be back in that school.
weird to fight out way through the Seminary parking lot just so we wouldn't have to walk up the pit stairs. (Granted the stairs to Mike's dorm room are just as bad-or worse)
weird to hear what I was once apart of.
weird to know what was wrong, right, unbalanced, off-pitch.
weird to see how the simplest things really do make a huge difference. Like just smiling and enjoying it.
weird to see people that I hadn't seen for a good 4 months.
weird to want to just hug everyone like it was the good old times.
weird to go to Jamba after and not want to just be all over the place.
weird to feel blessed that I am completely done with High School. 

I just love college and going back to high school really reminded me how blessed I am to be where I am, going to school, living on my own, have great friends, and to be independent. Most of all to have things matter. I thought what I liked about high school was not having a care in the world. But I like that things matter now. That my decisions will effect my life now. Not just my GPA and my college acceptance. It makes for a good motivation builder.

Anyway, I took my Biology final this morning and feel GREAT about it. If I didn't do awesome on that test then something is wrong with this University. But now we wait and see.

I'm officially done with Fall Semester 2011. I did it. 

I will head home on Saturday and am excited to have nothing to worry about over Christmas break. Because I start a whole new batch of classes come January 2012.

Fall Semester? Check.
Spring semester? Bring it on.