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My life...recently.
Jun. 19th, 2007 | 10:37 am
Last Wednesday, I drove up to Tulsa to enroll. It was soooo exciting! Here's my schedule....
Mondays:
11:00AM to 11:50AM CS-1043-02 Intro to Program Problem Solving
12:00PM to 12:50PM Bus-1001-10 CBA Orientation
1:00PM to 1:50PM HON-1003-03 Honors Greek History, Philosophy, and Drama
2:000PM to 3:15PM MATH-1103-02 Business Calculus
6:00PM to 8:45PM BUS-1013-05 Business in Society
Tuesdays:
12:30PM to 1:45PM CPLT-2713-01 The Faust Myth in German Literature and Film
2:00PM to 3:15PM CS-1040-L3 Intro to Program Problem Solving Lab
Wednesdays:
11:00AM to 11:50AM CS-1043-02 Intro to Program Problem Solving
1:00PM to 1:50PM HON-1003-03 Honors Greek History, Philosophy, and Drama
2:000PM to 3:15PM MATH-1103-02 Business Calculus
Thursdays:
12:30PM to 1:45PM CPLT-2713-01 The Faust Myth in German Literature and Film
Fridays:
11:00AM to 11:50AM CS-1043-02 Intro to Program Problem Solving
1:00PM to 1:50PM HON-1003-03 Honors Greek History, Philosophy, and Drama
Tell me that even though its 7 classes and 18 credit hours that it's totally not easy. I'm pretty damned excited about it. Especially my honors and Faust class. Oh, and my computer class I think is going to cover Java, since it was on the name in Facebook. I think it'll be pretty easy too. Give me a good feel for whether or not I want to pick up the IST major or not.
I just called my advisor today though: I need to see about taking Calculus instead of basic calc, since the engineering school requires it. I'm hoping I don't have to take like three math classes just to get to take my stat requirement and all. But meh, I've never been bad at math, and I have good math habits now thanks to Mrs. Hall. I miss that class, lol.
I'm also excited because I got my first reading list: my honors class. I just have to read this book about Greek mythology and the Illiad. FUN!
So I'm finally woken up for the day so I'm going to call Jon to see if he wants to go to White Water...it's finally warm enough to I think.
Oh, and Jonathan: Go look at my pictures on Facebook! You can see my new shiny laptop... Even if it's a vista. Vista is like soo uncool in someways, and cool in others. I just dislike all the bloatware I got with it. But hey, it cost only 600 bucks.
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Cabin Fever
Jan. 18th, 2007 | 11:17 pm
mood: 
bored
So I didn't make the finalist cut for the McDermott scholarship. I have to admit, I was kinda suprised. I fit all the requirements they had asked for and I thought my essays were pretty good too, but they said in the letter that they had a lot more applicants than last year and that a lot of people that would have made it in past years didn't make the cut this time. Still, I was really bummed. I'm still waiting on my scholarship letter from UTD and Tulsa. I did finally get my acceptance letter from UTD. Won't matter much though I don't think.
It was pretty awesome. I was shopping at Old Navy and ran into Diana Perez. I really miss last year's grade. So many of my friends were in it...but then again there were some people in it that I'd prefer never seeing again for one reason or another. I just can't wait to graduate though.
So I came into this wanting to make a serious post with some great big point, but once again it's kinda pointless. I think it's because I'm so damned bored. Cabin Fever doesn't even begin to start to describe it. At least though I've been able to watch American Idol. I think it's so cool that 5 people from OU (two of which are graduates from Classen Class of 2005 that I remember really well) made it to the hollywood round. I can't wait to see them audition and to see if any of them make it on. :)
Someone find me something to do!!!
Edit: I almost forgot to add: I made straight A's on my semester report card for the first time since elementary school. The closest I've ever been was in 9th grade first semester, but I made a B in Geometry. God I hated that class... lol. And Mrs. Hall says I'm not bad at it now. I just was then I guess...
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Jobs and College
Jan. 4th, 2007 | 06:18 pm
location: My room
mood: 
contemplative
Which brings me to my next dilemma. OCU has a great communications school, but I'm not so sure how good their job placement is. Tulsa, I don't know how strong the program in the major is. UTD is out of the picture if I decide to go this career route. So once again, it comes down to what major I want to be. I really need to find out what the Atech major is totally about, and start thinking. Ohhh woe is me. Not really.
What got me started thinking was talking with a friend of my mom's and mine that is the sales manager or something like that at Frontier City. She had told my mom that she needs an intern this summer, and if I wanted to, that she would try and get me the position. I'd love to go back to work at FC. I miss the place so much, mainly the people. (Not the picking up trash at Front Gate or the cranky customers or running rides in the heat) We talked a lot, and I really think that if I can get the position, I'll go do that. It'll give me a taste for what the career is like. The only thing is, if I go into that field, there are absolutely no opportunities in Oklahoma for that kind of position. I'll have a hard time finding a job. Hmm.
What are your thoughts?
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Love and Holidays and School
Jan. 2nd, 2007 | 07:27 pm
mood: 
loved
music: "Painless" by Mae
What wasn't crazy good was this stupid holiday break. I think I don't like the holidays much. I mean, I love giving and recieving presents and all the time I get to spend with my non parental family, but I really hate having to be around my parents this much. I'm so ready to be away from them. Soooo ready. They've been grating on my nerves like crazy. However, I have been able to spend a ton of time with Jon, which is good. During November and December we had hardly any time together thanks to finals. But luckily thats done with now.
But the best part of Christmas was this long story relating to a gift I gave to Jon and love. I'm finally starting to be able to somewhat define what love is for me, although I definitely believe there are many forms of it. I'm not sure what kind of love it is, but I love Jon. Not in the bastardization that I use when my friends are being goofy and I say I love them, although thats still a form of love for me. I love my friends. Each and every one of them. They've all made such an impact on my life. Some more than others. I think thats one of the greatest things about love. It's present in so many aspects of our lives, yet for me, I never really realized it. Its pretty cool.
So how has everyone else's holidays been?
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End of Semester: Compy update and College Update
Dec. 20th, 2006 | 06:05 pm
location: my room
mood: accomplished
Compy update! The only parts I lack are my DVD burner drive ($30), my motherboard ($60), my processor ($95) and my graphics card ($70). But just to be getting my computer up and running will cost me $180. But, I have $80 of rebates pending from my hard drive and RAM, so I'll only have to spend $100 more!!! I'm so damn close. Ommmgggg. I cannot wait. Oh, and depending on how hot the thing runs, I'll have to buy some 92mm fans to bring some more air in. But thats like ten bucks per fan. Stupid case only came with the back fan. Plus the front of it is solid, so I can't get any glowy lights for my fans either. Harumph.
So if all goes well, I'll be getting straight A's this semester. As long as I didn't fail my SOTA or Math or english final miserably, I'll have em. I'm so excited, because it's the first time I'll have straight As since elementary school. WOO!
Edit: WOOT! Got an 89 on my math final. That means I still have an A in there. Happy day. And I don't think I have anything to worry about in SOTa, because so far the class average for the final has been a 90. Suhweet! Now I just have to make sure that Teague puts in the bonus correctly to pull up my grade in that class. I have a friggen 88 right now, a high one at that.
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Dec. 9th, 2006 | 11:13 am
location: My room
mood: happy
music: None
After school was pretty awesome too. I went to the mall to buy Jenefar's christmas present, then to get my car washed, and finally to Borders to buy Christmas presents for people, and the Bleach DVD for me. (WHY THE HELL IS ANIME SO EXPENSIVE?!?!?!?!) After all that I went and picked up Hayley. On the drive up there, I heard on the radio that the first fifty people in line at Pole Position Racing by my house would win Disturbed tickets. So I called Jon and asked him to go there to try and get some. But while I was waiting on Hayley to come outside, I get a phone call from the Buzz asking me if I had sent a text message to win Disturbed tickets! I was like yeah, and the lady said that I had won! So I get to head down there on Sunday around 5:15 to pick up my tickets, and the show starts at 6:30!!! Plus they're floor tickets, and I get to get in early!!! I have never been so excited. I hardly ever win anything like that, so it was great. So I call Jon and tell him, and then take Hayley home.
But it gets better. (Sorta) I come home and in the mail is a letter from OCU with my scholarship offers! Turns out right now they're giving me the $9,000 dollars a year Trustee Undergraduate Tuition Waiver and the $5,000 a year Petree College of Arts and Science Tuition Waiver! So thats $14,000 a year, or $7,000 a semester. Tuition is $9,500 at OCU per semester, so with the money I should get from Dad being an alumni and me being methodist, I'll have full tuition. The only problem with this is the fact that I should be getting $16,000 a year according to the website. I've emailed Rob about it (my admissions counselor who rocks the world), but haven't heard back yet of course. The website about the scholarships says that they factor in G.P.A and your ACT score, and that for a 32+ ACT and 3.5+G.P.A, you get 16,000 a year combined. SO, I'm thinking that my new ACT scores didn't come in in time for them to be considered, so yeah. I'm also thinking the honors program gives money, which I plan to be in if I go to OCU. So all in all, I'm pretty excited. Now to see if I can find any scholarships there that will give me money for room and board to top UTD. Which is why I really like UTD. They give you lots of money. The only thing I worry about is a lack of a really strong Social Scene there. I don't want it to be all hard work and no play. If I go to Tulsa, I know I'll have tons of opportunities to play there, especially since I plan to be in a sorority. Iono.
So yeah. My day still wasn't over. After getting home and finding that out, and doing research about it, I headed up to City Bites for Rachel's birthday party. Which I must say was AWESOME! It was a ton of people from school, and we had so much fun. After eating, we went to the movies to see Apocalypto, which was really great. It was like one great big adrenaline ride. I definently recommend it. After the movie we roamed around the mall til it closed, and then a bunch of people had to head home so they could get sleep for the ACT tomorrow, so we all dispersed. As I was leaving some guys said I had a cute car (or something like that), and I think they said I was cute too (I was getting in my car so I couldn't really hear), which was a nice ego boost. After the mall I headed over to Jon's for a bit, and then went home.
So now that I just made this huge long post, I'll shut up now. :-P I still must say though that this was the best day in a looong time. The rest of this weekend looks like it'll be just as awesome too.
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Dec. 8th, 2006 | 09:54 am
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Jon, isn't your birthday on the 6th? This is crazy ironic. I love blogthings.
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College Acceptances
Dec. 7th, 2006 | 05:59 pm
location: My room
mood: 
anxious
music: None
So besides the fact that I haven't posted in like forever, I realized that I hadn't updated everyone on where I've gotten into so far. I got my acceptance letter for OCU a while back, and I just got my TU acceptance letter in today!
So much for UTD so far. They still say my application is incomplete, even though I've given them my resume, transcript, essay, application, and ACT scores. It shows on the site that I still have to give them my end of year grades, but thats retarded. So I dunno. I guess I just have to wait more.
What I can't really wait for though is for my rebates on my hard drive and RAM to come in. 70 or 80 dollars of amazing goodness that is going straight towards my processor. If I keep all the money in my account in there and dont spend it, I'll have enough to buy the last parts for my computer!! Now I won't have the graphics card yet, but since I'm planning on buying a procesor with one built in, then it's no big deal. I'll buy IT later. Graduation maybe? Hehehe. I can't wait for graduation gifts. Except if I go to UTD, it'll all be stuff for my apartment. Pain in the ass! But apartments are bad-ass, so no biggie.
I also can't wait for finding out whether or not I made it to the finalist's weekend for the McDermott Scholars Program. Jonathan, what did you make on your ACT and what was your G.P.A consequently? You did get invited to that right? (I'm trying to gauge my chances on being accepted.) I also cannot wait to see how much money each school gives me. AGGGH.
I really cannot wait for college.
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Thanksgiving: Round Four
Nov. 26th, 2006 | 06:36 pm
I've decided I'm kinda looking forward to married life and kinda not. Jon's family invited me to Thanksgiving at his Dad's and at his Mom's, and my family invited him to the one at our house and at my Aunt's, so I've been to four damned thanksgiving dinners. I swear, I've probably gained five pounds from all the food, lol. Yet it was all very yummy. I actually think though that the one at my house was the best, but that's just because we had some nice sparkling wine and crescent rolls with it, haha.
The really fun part though was at my Aunt's house today after dinner because we played Trival Pursuit Pop Culture DVD Edition, which was cool. I could actually answer quite a few of the questions. It was awesome. Especially all the video game questions... like: What arcade game in 199* (I think 3) featured the words "Finish Him"? MORTAL KOMBAT!!! I loved that one. There were soo many gamer questions in the Sports and Games section...made me happy to know something for sure. Oddly enough, my cousin and cousin in law ended up being the best, since they're real in tune with pop culture. But actually my mom and aunt won just barely, by luck. However, Jon and I almost won, because our final question was what four flavors are PEZ candies? We answered Strawberry, Grape, Lemon, and Watermelon, when the right answer was Strawberry, Grape, Lemon, and Orange. We were soooo close.
I love technology. I'm sitting here on my mom's laptop, and her Cingular GSM card is giving me an actually decent signal here on the turnpike, and Jon's sitting next to me with his Macbook using it as a light to do work on. Being able to surf the net anywhere there is a decent cell phone signal is awesome. Plus the wi-fi card keeps saying I get connections, but they aren't strong. So the stuff from Cingular is superior.
Lol, Jon just had a stroke of inspiration. (He's composing music)
Anyways. I wish more people than just Cynthia and Jonathan had livejournals. Like Cat. (Or rather I wish they'd post or something...)
Hmm... I don't know what else to ramble on about. I have soo much work to do still on my Study of the Americas IA. I have most of the research done, but I haven't gone through it all to highlight exactly what I need. My Math IA is faring slightly better. I have most of the data and the introduction written. Just gotta make up the rest of the data (UGH) or convince Hall I don't need more data... Hmm. I think I'll try for the latter and say I had no way to get people to play. Something. My ITGS IA is going ehh but I already have the rough draft started for the first one, and those essays are easy. I have no idea what the IA is for Bio though. English I really should start working on. I have no idea what I'm doing for it yet. Stupid Kafka. Stupid Solschznitzyn or however you spell his name. Stupid Marquez. Well they're not stupid but the essay I have to write over two of them is. German shouldn't be too hard, just a 3 minute oral or something like that. Not too big of a deal, my spoken language is pretty strong. (Hey, I like to talk) So my IAs aren't going too badly, but not great either. I can't wait to be able to say that I'm done with them.
I just can't wait to be done with IB. To graduate. (I'll resist now from breaking into song... ya know, lion king I just can't wait to be kiiiiiing. OK I'm sad. Haha)
*yawns*
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Nov. 21st, 2006 | 09:15 pm
location: My room
music: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ok, I'm updating again! No, the sky has not fallen. I'm sitting in my room on my mom's new duo core laptop computer she got from her office. Needless to say, I'm jeallous. She has a friggen gig of ram. I'll probably only be able to affor 512 MB for my compy... :(
Speaking of my compy, I have good news! I'm going to be buying a graphics card (512 MB Radeon x1600 Pro) for $99.99, and a 200 GB Hard drive for 19.99 (after rebates). Plus I'll be getting a digital camera for Christmas along with these computer parts, and I'll be buying some RAM hopefully. I may just go ahead and buy my motherboard... I'm not sure. I know for sure though I'm going to buy my DVD drive with my rebate money. I'm so excited. :)
I seriously cannot wait to have my computer built. I just wish I could be able to have a laptop to take to school. Since my mom is getting to keep her old laptop, I wonder if she'd let me borrow it for school? That'd be nice... I wouldn't even neccessarily want it for the net, just to take notes on. I would actually pay attention in SOTA for once I think. Haha. I'm great. Seriously though, her new laptop is rockin, even if it only has a 60GB hard drive. I'm finally going to have a copy of my iPod files on a computer again (Due to the fact that we were out of space on our old computer, I had deleted all my music files. Good thing too since I killed the CPU...)
I now vow to, while working on any computer I am unfamiliar with, have someone with me to keep me from doing stupid things. I'll just slap them though if they try to do it for me. Back off bitches!
I love laptops. Seriously. If they weren't so expensive, I would have just bought a super laptop to have played my games on, but its actually cheaper to get a dinky laptop and build a decent desktop computer. SAD, but true. I'm only going to spend about 700 or so on my computer. I'm guestimating I'll spend 650 on everything but the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Noot bad for a gig of ram, 200GB HD space, 512MB GPU, 2.5Ghz duo core processor... woot.
I love black friday. Rediculous deals, but goood the lines I'm scared of. I'm planning to get up as early as four possibly if I still have to go to best buy for my GPU, later if I don't since I'm going to Staples for my HD.
