School and Other Scholarly Things

January 8th, 2010...the first day of Spring Semester here at Troy University...

I have a good feeling about this year. Even though Troy was not my first college, I was still very nervous last semester about everything; would I be able to handle the classes? Would my professors be mean? Would I make any friends? I didn't have any traumatic experiences my first semester here, but this is what I did learn:

1.) Professors vary, but you have to take them with a grain of salt. The majority of them will go out of their way to help you succeed. (And if they don't, there are always those lovely teacher evaluation forms you can fill out. ;])

2.) As "mom like" as this sounds, friends are not the ones paying for my tuition...I don't need them to survive. If I make them, great, but I am not going to go out of my way to befriend Sally Sorority either. I have met some really great people, some whom I wish to keep in contact with for a long time. However, I MET them...I didn't find them.

3.) My biggest worry: Would I be able to handle the classes. I am not going to lie, I screwed around and I am having to retake a couple classes this semester. I am having to do this though because I did not take the work seriously. Every day I realize more and more exactly how much I can handle, and it's a lot! The classes are hard yes, but they can be conquered just like anything else!

I only have a few classes today, but I am excited! I felt like such a nerd putting all of my things together. I even got a pencil case to put all of my writing utensils in...haha.

[Umm...some sort of transition goes here, but I am not sure what, so yeah....bloop bloop bloop.]

I have an obsession for random quotes, so here a few of my favorites! (:

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." --Gandhi

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." --Oscar Wilde

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship." --François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." --Napoleon

Well, since I do have school tomorrow, I should be going to bed I guess... thanks for reading! (whoever you are...)