Well, it's 3:45 am on the first night of finals week and this is the first semester where I don't feel overwhelmed with cramming for tests. The School of Education is set up with mostly papers, projects and lesson plans with little to no tests. Therefore, the only test I have to finish is my Spanish TAKE HOME final. (Which after this one, I am done with any formal class/essay/test/evaluation of Spanish FOREVER!) I finished it earlier tonight and am technically on Christmas Break....why am I up so late then? Who knows but my brain is flying a million miles a minute. Two more nights until I'm back in Fargo for a bit and all I can think about is all the fun, stupid, exhausting, crazy, tiring, pointless, ridiculous, unreal, amazing, life changing moments I've had this semester and how I need to take more time out of my day to thank the ones in my life and that are impacting me. There have been so many times where I've thought that I made a mistake choosing to move out of my comfort zone in the midwest all the way to the pacific northwest and go to PLU. I've had my share of breakdowns, the feelings of wanting to pack up my clothes and fly home the next day, my thoughts of choosing the right career, the voice inside me asking if what I'm doing is really making me the best person I can be. But this crazy, roller coaster of a semester filled with extreme highs and extreme lows has proven to me that I wholeheartedly love being at PLU and wouldn't change my relationships with friends, professors and the people of the surrounding schools and community for anything in the world.
"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones that don't. Believe that everything happens for a reason...If you get a chance- take it; If it changes your life- let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it."
