Back to the past...I had a crazy, different roomie freshman year until I lived alone for the spring semester while being busy as a bee as a softball manager. I enjoyed being alone and had great supportive friends during that time who I had a lot of fun with when I did have time to party. I made okay grades that year but I lived and breathed softball and that job became a priority.
My sophomore year was when Shelby joined me in our humble abode. It was the adjustments to living with another homo sapien that kept me on my toes with a harder course load in the fall. Of course, there was the time Shelby came home saying she was changing to Pre-Med. We were a little awestruck by that one but she changed her mind and stuck with business/pre-law. Oh this one is even better! Shelby had traveled to Austin to watch Meredith Bard play volleyball and came home proclaiming she was transferring to t.u. because she LOVED austin. I almost threw up but I'm sure Great Papaw was jumping for joy in heaven. But once again, changed her mind. Plus! Who wouldn't want to live with me in my awesome house?! haha... And there was that football season which was alright but it was memories made that fall that were amazing. Dating a cadet in the band and sitting up-close and personal with the action on the 1st deck! Heck yes! James was a gentleman but that relationship lasted a short 5 months but we still are acquaintances. But because of my struggles, I finally reached out to a horse trainer and began lessons in the English discipline. Boy, was that my release. My go-to-activity to get my head straight. You have to physical and mentally do so much on the back of a horse that it frees your mind from everything...except on bad days...then it gets difficult to concentrate and I cry so Aubrey listens.
Junior to say the least was a hard transition. I made a lot of mistakes and cannot say I would take them back because that's how I learned! Courtney Janak moving in was not a mistake! From taking that wretched physics that summer, we became closer when she moved in and began a long-lasting friendship that I cherish everyday. Unfortunately, she became a buffer to some of Shelby and I's arguments. That's what sisters are for? Anyways, I started getting nervous about graduating and getting into PT school so I started researching more, talking to more advisors, and it wasn't until that summer of 2011 that I began shadowing an awesome PT. But last spring was a whirlwind. Taking 2 science courses and carrying 15 hours was difficult for me. It was even more difficult for me to not help provide for my education now that I did not have job. Money isn't everything but it stresses me out. That summer was great too! I joined the summer choir at St. Mary's and just have the itch to sing praises all the time now!
Now I'm in my final spring semester in my undergraduate career. Time has flown and friends have come and gone but I truly embrace being able to attend this school and incorporate the diversity it brings to my life. I originally wanted to complain in this post about the stupid hard exams I have this week but I wanted to reflect more on the good than the bad. I've been very blessed. And I am very thankful yet I still have a ways to go and I cannot let go of my sights, dreams, hopes, wishes and abilities.
Thanks for reading...and I leave y'all with this...
"Ask & it will be given to you;
seek & you will find;
knock & the door will be opened to you."
- Matthew 7:7
...we're cool Aggies...
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