it's time for a lengthy college post!

so things were hard at first. they really were. and i did not like it one bit. being away from my family, even though i knew they were only an hour away, was a complete shock to me, and i just wanted to curl up in a ball and hide.  the things i missed about merrimack completely outnumbered the things i loved in ( Read more... )

i feel like i've missed a lot being out of town over vacation... but i guess i always do when i read through livejournals after not doing so in a while. haha ( Read more... )

today

i donated my hair to locks of love

and

i donated my blood to the red cross

:)

so here's my silly little "take the first sentence of the first post of each month this year" thing ( Read more... )

i love this month.
i love christmas, i love my birthday, i love new years eve (is that redundant?), i love hot cocoa, i love christmas lights, i love family.

college college college--- i find out this month. well, except for one, which i'm not getting my hopes up about anyway.  i just hope i don't get terribly disappointed by the others.  i'm ( Read more... )

i realized tonight that i am blessed beyond belief.

miracles come in packages you'd never expect, and moments of clarity like this one are so worth the months and months of prayer that precede them.

i have two college essays that i have revised the pants off of.  they are kind of similar in format and theme, but i need to choose one soon. please, please read them if you have time and let me know which one you like better. thank you.

ESSAY #1

As I stood at the edge of the world and scanned the sea of yellow poppies beneath me, I ( Read more... )

i neglect this thing.  it's been over a month since i last updated and so much has happened. but i say that every time. i swear to gosh i do.

to sum it all up, i feel like i am the luckiest person alive.  every day i'm just realizing more and more how little i have to complain about. sure there's school and college and a future to worry about, but ( Read more... )

so lately i've been feeling kind of down... about college, about what i want to do with my life, about the future in general .  i'm sure everyone can relate when i say that i wish there was a button you could push to tell you what direction to go in.  personally, i feel pretty lost.  there's so much i want to do that i don't want to make a wrong ( Read more... )

so it finally decided to come in the mail, haha ( Read more... )