Minor in creativity.

Tomorrow is my last day at home. Saturday morning I head up to Austin to spend some time with my family. Sunday is my last day in Texas. Sunday night I fly back to Utah. This winter break went by way too fast! It hadn't hit me that I start school on Monday until I got an email from one of my professors today. Part of me doesn't want to leave Texas and wants to stay here forever, but then the other part of me is excited to get back. Home is just too comfortable. I don't feel like I am accomplishing anything here. I feel so lazy and unproductive. I am excited to get back and start working on something again.
Today I was thinking a lot about my schooling. My major is Business Management with a focus in "I don't know yet". Two years ago, I would have never ever thought I'd major in business. I would have probably told you that business is BORING. These days, I'm still not truly excited about business, but I know that it will get me to where I want to be. While a minor has been on my mind, I wasn't ever really sure of what I wanted it to be. Then I realized how interested I am in graphic design. BYU doesn't have a graphic design minor, but the do have one in Advertising Design which is basically graphic design with a focus in advertising. Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of Mad Men lately, but that sounds really interesting and exciting to me! I've always been to envious of those art majors who get to create all the time. I'm excited to get to be trained in a creative aspect! I'm excited to learn new skills that will no doubt be beneficial to my future plans. I'm taking baby steps!

Carli

These are the things that are happening.

The other day I almost changed my major yet again. It came after one of those moments when you sit in the testing center for 3.5 hours taking an Accounting test and think "Oh crap..." Then later you repeat that statement as you find out your score. The college life is hard. It is especially hard when what you want to do in life doesn't have a specific major. So you take a bunch of classes that you aren't interested in just so you can get a degree that will only get you on the road towards your where you want to be. I envy all those people who have always known what they are going to do, how they are going to do it, and when they are going to get it done. I also envy those people who walk right off their college campus and right into the doors of their dream job. I mean for reals... how do you do it? Because I'd really like to know. Then I got home and talked to my parents and I realized that I just need to stick it out. Its amazing how parents can calm you down when your being a little too dramatic. Now I know that I have a lot of work to do to finish out this semester with the grades I need.
Then yesterday I went to my economics class with the determination to pay attention and understand. The lecture was actually really interesting and I understood everything. Then the best thing ever happened. Please tell me you have seen the Sexy Sax Man video on youtube... if you haven't please view the following:

You know that part where sexy sax man plays for a biology class? Well that exact same thing happened in my economics class. There are a few things you should know about this occasion. First of all, my economics teacher is the most infamous professor at BYU. Everyone knows who he is. Everyone knows that his class is tough. Everyone knows that he is not always the nicest. So when thus sexy sax man walks in playing his sax I expected Professor Kearl to yell at him to leave, but instead he said "I don't know what's going on... but his is funny." Then he stood back and watched. Later he applied sexy sax man's interruption to economics. I could not stop laughing. It was the best thing ever. In fact, I have been singing that song over and over for the past couple days. So much that my roommates are probably getting a little bit annoyed.

Other than that, I feel like my life is pretty much a typical college student life. I have been socializing a little too much, studying a lot but not enough, and not getting enough sleep. Sorry it's been a little slow around here. Life has just been happening so fast that I have had little to no time to record it. I still have pictures from my vacation to share... I know... that was almost a month ago. I promise I'll get them up soon!

Carli

Summer Is Here!

I have been waiting for this day for a very long time. I just finished giving my final presentation and turning in the essay that took me what seemed like three years to write... It's hard to believe that the semester is over. I am so happy that I don't have anything stressful to think about anymore. The weird thing is that I don't have any thing stressful to think about. I feel like I have been stressing for ages. The college life cannot be good for my health. 

The next week is still going to be crazy though. Tuesday will be the beginning of my long drive home to Texas. I am so excited to go home spend time with family, spend long days basking in the sunshine and laying in the sand, and most of all... being able to do all the things I have been wanting to do but never did for lack of time. This summer is going to a productive one! I have an entire journal full of craft and do it yourself projects that I have dying to get my hands on. This means that I will finally be fulfilling my new years resolution of do it yourself features on my blog! It will be amazing to finally put all these ideas to good use. I have so many exciting things planned for this summer. I only hope that I can fit them all in! 

And because blog posts are funner when they have pictures.

Here are a few pictures from home I took last summer.

Are you ready for summer?

Carli