first year, Crete, Neb.
business-finance and Spanish major
My aunt named me. My mother and my aunt had a deal. If I was a girl, my aunt would get to name me, and if I was a boy, my mom would have.
Anything but country.
I'm scared of heights, but I'd love to skydive.
Wow! This summer flew! Can you believe schools starts in less than three days? In three days I will become a freshman. Scary isn't it?
This summer, I'll admit I didn't get much accomplished. I had a goal to work and finish my high school scrapbook, but guess what? You're right……I never even touched it! What I did accomplish was to work all summer, and enjoy every minute of dorm room shopping. I decided to decorate my room lime green and turquoise and if you get to know me better, everything has to match! Once again, that includes everything, even my slippers!
I am very grateful for having such great parents. They led me this way, and even dropped me off here. When it came to unloading my dad's truck and my car the great New Student Orientation helpers helped us a lot; because of them we each only did one trip to the second floor of Centennial with all my belongings. Once everything was unloaded, I walked into my room, and was frightened. There was no room to walk. As a matter of fact we had to push some things out of the way to be able to close the door. At the time I got very nervous because the room seemed incredibly small to fit all my belongings. Somehow someway I managed to fit everything, and now I feel like my room ended up being the perfect size!
Phewww! Finally the weekend has got here. This isn't any weekend either, it's LABOR DAY!! Although I'm not doing anything besides hanging out with friends, it's better than sitting around and going to class. I can't believe I've been in class almost a week already. I have to admit it went by very fast. The professors are so nice, at least mine are. Most of them are goofy and act our age. It's great, because that's how they make class fun and exciting. I don't think I've ever been as interested in class as I am now.
Campus is awesome as well. This week we had an involvement fair. I went to every booth because the upperclassmen told me to do so, so I could get lots of free things. In our residence halls we painted bricks for our doors. I think painting bricks was an excellent way for students to talk to each other and know other students from other floors. Today we had a part-time job fair, and I went through every booth again for two reasons. One because I actually need a job, and two, even if I didn't want to work for the company I got some free things, including coupons!
Overall, I don't regret coming to Wesleyan one bit, I've loved every moment of it and hope that it continues this way the rest of the year!
Wow! Another week of classes passed and it only feels like a day, how is that? It must be because Nebraska Wesleyan keeps you on your feet. Yes there is homework, but think about it this way……It's a great way to interact with people on your floor and make long lasting friendships. It's also really helpful if you guys are in the same classes, and one of you understands the problem and the other one doesn't.
Let me just tell you how fun homework can be... Have you ever wrote an obituary? Have you ever thought about how you're going to die? Maybe if you want a service or a funeral? Crazy, huh? I'm currently taking a class called Celebrating Life and Preparing for Loss that requires us to write an obituary. I'm not going to lie, it's depressing to remember all the great moments in my life, interesting to see all my accomplishments, but yet sad to think that death is so close, but once I finished, I thought it was lot's of fun and a great experience! It's also interesting when you tell family and friends, because they think that you have thoughts of suicide, but in reality all you're doing is your homework.
On campus there is many different places where you can study such as the library, your room, the center pod (if you live in Centennial), the computer lab in your residence hall, outside on the grass, and many other places. Did you ever consider the laundry room? If you're a person that needs to study with very limited distractions and a quiet background noise, that's the perfect place to go! As a matter of fact when I wrote my obituary, I wrote it in the laundry room. For some reason I couldn't find the right place that was quiet enough in my building and the laundry room ended up giving me many ideas. So give it a try!
Ever been locked out of your car? I never thought it would happen to me so I didn’t bring my spare key from home, and on a great, rainy morning, like Monday I was locked out. See the thing was I stayed the night at a friend’s house and I even woke up early so I could head towards my dorm and study for my first Accounting quiz. I grabbed my stereo face plate, iPod, and hooked my book bag on my right shoulder, and then I opened the back door. I slipped the stereo face plate and iPod into my purse and locked my car. My book bag started slipping and I knew my homework was in there and there was a huge puddle of water right behind me, so I stepped to the side and put my book bag on my left shoulder and then the door closes.......... What a great beginning to my day.
The door was halfway closed (enough not to get opened) so I pushed it in all the way. I was frustrated because I had parked on the street and my purse and laptop were pretty much wide open for the public to see. Not to mention I didn’t have my fob (used to get into residence hall) or my key. I used the call box, but unfortunately it seemed all my friends and neighbors were already at class. Thank God the residence life coordinator came out and let me in. He also let me borrow a spare key for the day and I ended up getting a new fob and returning my old one.
After this incident, I realized how caring people at Wesleyan are. I mean any person can say they got locked out of their car, but people trust in you until you lose their trust. We will all have experiences like this, and like the saying goes, "We learn from our mistakes." By the way I did excellent on my quiz!
I have to admit that the first month of college was easier then my freshman year in high school. I couldn’t even believe I was in college! Yes we have had to sit through lectures and take notes, but don’t you do that in high school? Finally, the real college life came…….Tests, quizzes, book reading, chapter readings, group presentations, speeches, and the list goes on. Now I feel like I don’t have enough time for all of this. What am I going to do?
Around campus there are great resources; some which include pamphlets that give you time management tips. From these I have learned a lot, and can include these in my everyday life. Just to prove that I’m managing my time carefully, at the beginning of this week I applied for a job, today I had my interview, and Tuesday I start. I think I have succeeded greatly because now I have time to do homework, go to meetings, be involved, work, hang out, and even hang out with my boyfriend. Like all college students, I am a procrastinator at times, but hey it’s always great to study in the center pod with other students that are in your class. You can even quiz each other over the material. And if you haven’t met someone on your floor it’s a great chance to meet them!
I started the semester thinking I wanted to drop out of college. The first semester was so easy and now…My goodness, Welcome to the College World! Now, thankfully things are calming down a bit. Tests here and there, but hey it’s college!
The winter formal is tonight! I’m very excited. At first when I saw the signs up around campus talking about the winter formal I was like “Oh great! I thought I was done with prom.” Since I wasn’t sure what I was suppose to wear to the winter formal, I talked to some students that are helping set it up. Pretty much you wear your high school prom dress, nails are up to you, and pretty much have your friends do your hair! How exciting! I didn’t have to waste that much money! Thankfully, I asked someone, otherwise I would have wasted a big lump of $$$$. So now you know a bit about winter formal, that way you won’t have to ask anyone like me! Also, another advantage, we have no idea where the location is because busses will be taking us! Yeah, no gas money! I’ll tell you next week how it was…
I promised I would tell you about the formal. So here it goes… It was lot’s of fun! Although it felt like the longest bus trip ever getting there! Students were dancing, yelling, and moving from seat to seat. It was unbelievable! Actually so you can picture it a bit, it felt like I was in the bus with a whole bunch of LOUD 6th graders. Besides the fact, the formal was held at Pla Mor. The Web group that put it together provided food and water. They had nice up to date music!
I’m going to admit a secret about this week. Wednesday instead of being the “normal student” that I should be, I went and rented Matilda at Blockbuster! Some friends and I watched it! The next day I had two tests, and was feeling horrible because I didn’t study, instead I watched movies! (I did look at my notes for half hour before class, while eating breakfast!) I just got by grade back from one of the classes and I got an A on the test!
How do I start??? This week I have spent the time to actually sit down and do quite a bit of homework. For the first time in my life I am not being a procrastinator. I know that next week is midterm week and if I don’t do my homework this weekend, next week is going to be terrifying! Especially with two of my hardest exams being on the same day! I know I will make it through; it’s going to be a bit tuff though. The good thing is that the following week will be SPRING BREAK! I’m going to go home and catch up with all my friends. Not to mention, I am going to put in lots of extra hours at work!
I’m pretty excited about this weekend. My mom’s birthday was Wednesday, and Saturday I am having a surprise party for her! Tonight I will go shopping for everything! I hope she really likes her surprise! Now I hope she doesn’t read this diary! Sunday I will sit and do lot’s of homework like a good student!
Spring break is over already? It’s time to go to school again? WHAT? I really enjoy having breaks in college. It makes life more exciting, I think. In high school you get breaks, but they are a day long. This break was a week and a day long! So guess what I did? If you guessed sleep in, I sure did! Unfortunately I didn’t travel like most students. I would have liked to, maybe next time. I did work a few extra hours and make some extra $$$.
This week at school was nice because it felt like school started all over again. We’re learning new stuff, new lectures, etc. and not taking tests and writing papers! I enjoy school a lot more when I don’t have to do any of that nasty stuff! Well I guess I’ll have to see how it goes this week…
Another week has passed! :) We are almost done with school, but the unfortunate thing is that finals are coming up. After that it's three months off! I'm excited to go home and hang out with my high school buddies. I haven't seen or hung out with them since last year. We all came to college and we are very busy individuals! We only communicate on facebook, myspace, or texting. With summer approaching, I will get to do more with them than just communicating with them electronically.
Besides hanging out with friends, I will work to save money for next year, and I hope to travel. My mom says we might go to Minnesota, so I am very excited!
If you were on campus this week, all you heard were students complaining about their finals. I was officially done at 9am this morning, and honestly I feel relieved. I would hate to be one of the students to have a final tomorrow. In the fall, I had a final on the Friday before vacation and I ended up not studying for it because I was trying to do a million other things. Now this semester, I get to spend my last day packing! Let me tell you it really sucks! Yesterday I spent my time studying and packing. I ended up packing for five hours and I'm about half way there! The good thing is I will be home soon and three months later back to packing! :)
This summer I might go to California. Most of my summer will be spent working to save up again for next year! Yes, I know not very exciting, but at least I'll have a better income than I did while I was in school.
I hope to see many new faces next school year and wish you all the best!
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Me and my boyfriend at Champions this summer. |
| Part of my High School Dance Team before a performance. |  |
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My cousin Esmo, me, and my best friend Ana at our back to school dance. |
| My cousin Cuabett and I last Christmas. Cute and festive, what more can you ask for? |  |
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Me at my high school senior prom. |
| My quinceñera, a.k.a. "the coming of age". |  |