Room pictures

So it's kind of dorky but we decided to take pictures all together as an apartment. We were all going to wear white shirts but then I realized that I left my white shirt at home. So we did half white and half black. In the top picture from left to right it goes Kortney, Kara, me, Jami, Jana, and Alli. In the bottom one starting with me and going clockwise it goes me, Alli, Jami, Kortney, Kara, and Jana. We went out kind of late though so we didn't get many pictures but we're going to do it again so that we can all look "extra cute" and actually have it planned out more than an hour an advance.

Mosaic

This is the finished final project of my mosaic. It took at least 15 hours to make. You kind of have to look at it from far away for it to actually look good. In the middle is Christ holding a book and you can't see it very well but his other hand is in a blessing gesture. It looked better without the grout because there were a lot of little pieces that then got covered up by the grout. He has a halo around him, for holiness. The cross is behind him as an obvious symbol of his death. The lily is basically Mary's symbol and the pelican is a symbol of his sacrifice. So there you have it. Part of the reason as to why I was so stressed out last week! I haven't gotten it back yet with the grade but I'm crossing my fingers for 100%. The actual mosaic is only half the score. There is also a two page paper that goes with it explaining the symols, the technique, and why it is a "Byzantine style" mosaic. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with it yet but I guess we'll just play it by ear.

Half way through my first semester!

I guess I supposedly started this blog just to talk about college and how it’s going and stuff. The roommate situation is pretty good. Kara and I get along really well. Throw Kortney in there and we have a fun mix. But our apartment is pretty divided. It’s become sort of an “Us vs. Them” situation. Kara, Kortney, and I against Jana, Alli, and Jami. It’s a bummer because I really would like it if we could all get along. Oh well, I guess we just can’t call our apartment Zion.
I’m not really sure what to think about college so far. Part of me wants to go back to high school just for a week. Everything there was so familiar but few things here are like that. When I was a sophomore I knew all of the classes I would take for the rest of high school and pretty much stuck with those. But now I don’t know what I’ll be taking next semester let alone next year!
I’ve been trying not to kill myself too much over homework. We spend at least 10 hours in the library every week. I have never worked so hard in my life. I never knew I could push myself this far either. I thought that taking 4 AP classes last year would be good practice but I was wrong. This is so much harder!
I don’t really have any good stories to tell. I study hard during the week and play hard on the weekends. The weeks go by so fast and I can’t believe it’s November already. Soon it will be Thanksgiving and then finals. But now it’s time to gear up for another week with a job hunt, 7 page research paper, and one test. Oh goody!