I'm sure all of you have been thinking about applying to grad school next semester.  I don't know about any of y'all, but I'm nervous.  It's just nerve wrecking because what if you don't get in?  It's kind of like you went four or more years in college to hopefully become what your major is and pretty much not getting into graduate school prevents you from becoming that.  It just sucks that we can't really do anything with our 4 year degree.  It's scary to think about what I'll be doing a year from now and where I'll be.  I really don't want to be too far away from home, but I'm going to go where I can get into school.  Another thing that is on my mind about next year is that my current roommate is graduating, so therefore I will be getting a new roommate.  They'll be random and I'll be living with someone I don't know, which is kind of weird.  Hopefully they'll be cool and not psycho.

An Update on Physics Class

So surprisingly physics has gotten a little better or at least the lab portion has.  We are now over half way through the semester and we have started on our final projects.  For the past couple of weeks we have been practicing soldering in lab.  And honestly I find it very entertaining and cool.  Last week we made these circuit boards that ended up making these two lights flash.  Which I guess that doesn't sound like much fun, but I enjoyed it.  I decided to build an amplifier for my final project, which I get to start building tomorrow!!!!! I am super excited!  As for the actually class part....it's going ok.  I've gotten to the point where I'm just ready to be done!  Pretty much the 2200 word paper we had to do for our midterm did me in.  It was the hardest, most annoying paper I have ever had to write.  But hey at least there is only 5 more weeks left and then I'll never have to worry about physics ever again!

The Beer festival

I don't know if any of y'all have ever been to a beer festival or not, but it was kind of like the wine festival except with beer.  So I don't like beer at all.  The only reason I decided to go was because my boyfriend and his friends wanted to.  The good thing about this event was that they gave us these cute little wine glasses.. I'm not sure of the formal name for them, but they looked like midget wine glasses.  Well none of the beer at this festival was under 10% alcohol!!! And they even had some that was 18%..WHAT?!?!  So it was disgusting, but John seemed to like it so I guess it worked out for him.  But really even with the gross beer I had a really good time even though it was super cold and windy.

Asheville for the Weekend

This weekend John and I are going to Asheville.  We are going to visit his best friend, which is always interesting.  On Saturday we're going to a Beer festival, which is suppose to be kinda like the wine festival, but instead of it being shots of wine it will be shots of beer.   I'm not really sure how I feel about this because I'm not really a beer person, but I think if it's in shots I may can handle it.  I'm pretty much going for the entertainment of John getting drunk.  He's very funny when he drinks.  He likes to dance and sing...it's hilarious.  Anyways so hopefully this will be a pretty fun weekend!  Maybe next week's posts will have some pictures attached so y'all can see my experience.  Maybe even a video of John dancing.  We'll see how it goes.

The Turtle Trot...

So I guess I'll talk a little bit about the 5K race that took place this past Saturday.  Well Ivy and I decided to do this for extra credit for Dalton's class...why I didn't just do the Comeback Shack fundraisers I don't know.  A few years ago I decided to do a 5K run in my hometown, which is relatively flat land or at least flat on the path they chose to do the race on.  So before I ran at this Turtle Trot race I had pictured the run to be on flat ground...didn't even think about how Boone really isn't flat and has a lot of hills.  So as soon as we start the race we are going up hill.  The first hill wasn't that bad, but still it sucked!  Then for some reason they decided to choose a path at the end of the race that had these two giant hills.  The first one I could still somewhat run up, but the other one I didn't even think about trying.  Anyways I guess the race went good overall.  I did a lot better than what I had expected to do and we weren't the last people to finish!

My Spring Break

Well due to the week gap we had of not having to post blogs...I have totally forgot about them.  So I figured I would write a little about my spring break.  I did absolutely nothing over spring break! I did go home and see my family, but other than that I really didn't have anything eventful happen.  I did however go to Virginia to a place called "Ararat", which sounds like it would be in a desert or just somewhere kinda creepy.  I went with my boyfriend, who has a friend that has a "lake house".  John likes to call it a lake house, but in reality it is a pond, but I guess lake house sounds cooler.  So we get there and his friend has these two giant, beautiful peacocks and a lot of chickens, which is pretty awesome because I love chickens!!! So after messing around with them for a little while we decided to go fishing.  Well John had this thought in his head that I wouldn't be good at fishing I guess mainly because I'm a woman....he's dumb.  Anyways I ended up catching two bass while John on the other hand didn't catch any!!!!! It was great!

My Friend the Heartbreaker

So my best friend Rachel, who I grew up with, is a little bit of a heartbreaker.  I mean I feel sorry for the guys, but it is quite funny because it's so unbelievable how she acts. Now Rachel is one of those girls who like guys who play "hard to get" or pretty much treat her like crap! I guess you could say she likes the challenge and the chase. Well she's been dating this guy for about 4 months this time around...the first time she dated him I think maybe they dated for about 2 or 3 months. She has a record of dating these guys and really liking them and just one week she won't like them anymore, so she dumps them. So she dated her recent boyfriend over the summer and once school started back she decided it was time to break up with him. So she did and he was pretty upset over it because he is a nice guy and he truly cares about her. And then she goes about 2 months without even mentioning his name or anything about him and then she just suddenly wants to get back together with him. I don't know what the deal is. So they get back together and she's still dating him right now. On Sunday, she calls me and is talking about how he gets on her nerves and about how she's thinking about breaking up with him. Like seriously two weeks ago she was telling me how happy she was with him. I don't know...maybe she'll change her mind and start liking him again. Anyways it cracks me up..which might be a mean thing to say, but I just can't help it! She's entertaining with how she does her men!

Activities Over the Weekend

This weekend I didn't do anything that was super exciting. But I did stay up in Boone, which was the first time in about a month. I normally go home on the weekends since my hometown is pretty close to Boone.  I'm very close to my family so I love seeing them on the weekends, plus my boyfriend lives in my hometown as well. Anyways, so I stuck it out up here this weekend and went and hung out with one of my friends I graduated high school with. His name is Logan and I've known him practically my whole life. Now he is a little bit of a partier and I don't mind partying on the weekends, but he's one of those people who like to party the majority of the week and I just can't do that and still concentrate on school. So Friday night he took me to a party that took place up at the Cottages. We got there about 10:00, so it was kind of early, but he was close with the people who were throwing the party. Well at about 12:00, people started getting crazy hahaha. There was these two guys that were dominating in beer pong and well they were just way to into it. It was interesting..I suppose. On Saturday my boyfriend came up here to visit me and we went and ate at The Local, which was a first time for me. The food was actually pretty good and they had a band playing so it was nice. So it was a pretty good weekend altogether!

MIDTERM WEEK...DUN DUN DUN!!!!!

I'm sure that everyone is freaking out about this week due to the excessive amount of tests and assignments that are due. But just think about how once this week is over it'll be spring break!!!!!  So right now I am sitting in my bed studying for our test in Dalton's class tomorrow. Honestly I somewhat wish she would have kept it as a take home test..that would have been great! But since she did not...I'll be studying for most of the night and probably tomorrow morning as well. Also I have like a 5 page paper due in physics this week and it's suppose to be on amplifiers. I don't know ANYTHING  about amplifiers other than that they amplify things...like my guitar. But hey after this week I'll be half way done with physics!!! Just knowing that brings joy to my heart!!