Almost Over

    I can't believe that this semester is almost over. At times I thought the end would never come, but we've almost made it! At the beginning of the semester I was very stressed and not sure if I would be able to handle my course load. (I took 19 hours this semester) But as the semester went on I learned to balance my time and was able to complete all 19 hours, with all A's I might add. I only have two more finals left to take; one tonight and one Friday afternoon. Then I'll be home free; well until summer school starts anyway.

    My first couple years of college I goofed around, skipped a lot, and in return failed a bunch of classes. Since I wasn't too concerned with showing up to class I didn't know about a lot of the assignments and quite frankly I really didn't care. My only motivation to even enroll in college was the fact that as long as I was in school my parents paid for my car and insurance. But for some reason or another I decided to take a break. In the first couple of years I actually took two semesters off. The first semester I took off my parents continued paying for my car and insurance, but the next time around I had to start paying my own insurance. Let me tell you when you've had what seems like a million speeding tickets and you're insured under your own policy it can be quite costly. It only took one semester of that before I decided to go back to school and stay in school.

So now I am trying to make up for lost time by taking big course loads and classes every semester. After this summer I will have taken and passed 43 hours this academic year. And I still have two more years of school to go. L I wish I would have had this motivation when I first started, if I had I could have graduated this year, if not before. Oh well, you live and learn. I definitely learned my lesson and after I get my bachelor's degree I'm going to go right back to school and get my master's degree. Taking breaks only makes it that much harder.