So... I broke an arrow with my neck...

Did you see that guys? I broke a real life archery arrow placed in the soft part of my neck by simply taking one step forward.

Step 1: Place the arrow properly on your neck

Step 2: Take a step forward

Step 3: Shatter Arrow
Photos courtesy of Paulina Bryant

This took place at the scholarship conference I went to last weekend in Van, TX. And was an exercise in confidence building, because if you were confident and took a strong step forward then you break your arrow, but if you take a timid step the arrow slides up your throat and leaves a big old red red mark, so you have to have confidence in yourself and your abilities to be able to accomplish the task.

My Small Group for Team Building Exercises
Photo Courtesy of Nancy Phillips

The conference is always an interesting experience and this year was not exception. Unfortunately I had to miss two days of class to attend the conference, we left early Thursday (Shout out to my Boyfriend, Townsend, for driving me to the airport at 6 AM) and didn't get back until late Sunday night so we missed out on both classes and homework time, fortunately I had been able to warn my professors in the beginning of the semester and we were able to work out plans for me missing class on Thursday and Friday. That's one really, really nice thing about Transy is that you can work with your professors for conflicts and they know who you are, even in Intro classes like my Preparing to Act course.

The whole group of students and alumni from across the country for the Phillips University Legacy Scholarship.

I'm trying to catch up on all that I missed out on and I'm doing an ok job, except for the program I have to write for Theory of Programming languages that I'm ignoring while I write this blog. :)

I hope that your college search is going well! TTYL.

Room for One, please!

As I started to look at schools, the thing that interested me the most was getting my own room to decorate the way I wanted, I mean your dorm room functions as your bed room, study, living room, game room, and even your kitchen some times. So to help out with your imagination I would like to share some pictures of my room, granted I'm an RA and I have my own room, for various reasons, but you can at least get the idea.

Each Forrer room comes with two closets and two sets of drawers

Two People Forrer Rooms have two desks, some have a little bookshelf for above your desk

Since I don't have a roommate, I have plenty of room for a couch, but if you bunked your beds so could you!

All beds on campus are Extra-Long twins, my dad and I made the canopy last year for my room in Rosenthal.

The nice thing about living in Forrer is that you can have a really good community on your hall. The bad (for me) is that you share a bathroom with all the people on your hall. Just say yes to shower shoes!

Familia!

Well hello to all you boys and girls! I hope you're been having a great fall so far, I know its college visit madness right about now, my little sister Maggie is working on hers I know, so good luck to those of you who doing the same!

So, this pleasantly warm weekend is Family Weekend, a wonderful time of the year when the families of all the students are invited to come hang out on campus with their kids. There's plenty of things to do, like checking out my fellow blogger Cory, or CoCo as I like to call him, in the play - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, or checking out the Art show by senior Kathleen Burke or coming to the Family Weekend Concert with all of the musical groups, including me in the Transylvania Choir!

My parents came up, like they always do, not because they want to come strictly for Family Weekend, but because it's always situated the weekend before my birthday! That's right folks, this here blogger turns 21 tomorrow! I'm not planning anything to big or crazy, but some of my friends and I are going to go out to eat for some delicious Mexican Cuisine.

Moving right along, registration is right around the corner and being an upper level student now, next semester I'll be taking two computer science courses, with the same professor, and two Spanish courses, with the same professor. So, needless to say, it's going to be an interesting couple of months, three of the courses are also situated on Tuesday/Thursdays so through one of the CS professors, I sent in my resume for an internship next semester, a paid internship. Here's hoping I get it. :)

PS My boyfriend's familia has season tickets for UK football so last weekend I got to go watch the game! Up close and personal!