Okay so I have a confession to make. Many of you already know this but some of you don't. It's a little embarrassing, but obviously I'm not TOO embarrassed, otherwise I wouldn't be telling you. So here it is (for those of you who don't already know, and an update for those of you who do).
Technically I didn't graduate in April.
I walked, obviously, since there are a ton of pictures and hundreds of people watched me walk, but I wasn't actually graduating. See the thing is, I didn't quite have room in my schedule for my last GE, History 202, so I decided to take it online through BYU Independent Study. I started it last June and then basically did nothing about it until oh, about the next February. It wasn't a very hard class (except we had to do these one page writing assignments based on a primary source, 11 pt font, single spaced, and we were supposed to fill the entire page...let me just tell you, it was practically impossible to fill that whole page based on the questions the professor gave...but I digress). I just didn't want to do it, and I suffer from this condition called procrastination. If you are a procrastinator, online classes are the WORST. Avoid online classes like the plague. I would have rather shoved that history class in my last semester and taken 18 credit hours than do it online. If you're not a procrastinator, then online classes are fine, and you are awesome.
So anyway, the deadline for getting my online class done if I wanted to graduate in April was April 5th, and April 5th came around and my class was not even close to finished. I talked to my academic advisor, and he said if I had the class done and the grade was in by the time grades were due (which usually isn't until a week or two after the semester ends), then I would still graduate in April, otherwise I'd be technically graduating in June. He said I could still walk though, since my name was already on the program (Nice.). Well guess what? I didn't finish my class by the time grades were due. There were two weeks after graduation before we moved to Oklahoma and we all figured it would be best if I got my class done in that time. Well guess what? I didn't finish before we moved. All I had left was a few of those cursed primary source analyses, a 750 word book analysis (for a book that was on Spark Notes...see Spark Notes isn't just for lazy high schoolers), and the final. Fortunately, I got the writing assignments done pretty quickly. Also, if you don't know how BYU online classes work, you have to request the midterm/final, then they print it and you come in and take it if you're in Provo, or they mail it to the nearest university if you're outside of Provo, because it has to be proctored. You can't request the final until you have all the other assignments turned in, so once I finally got those writing assignments turned in (which by the way, is difficult when you don't have internet in your new apartment) I requested the final. And then I waited and waited and waited for it to get here. Seriously, it took more than a week. It only took us like 20 hours to drive here, but it took that stinking test like 8 days to get here in the mail. Fortunately for me, Lawton has its very own university called Cameron University so I didn't have to go far to take my final. I had to have an appointment to take it, and after waiting a few more days I finally got to take it. It was so easy, it only took me like 20 minutes and the proctor was super surprised when I came back in. She was like, "Wow, that didn't take you very long at all!" And in my sarcastic (and as my parents would say, sassy) brain I'm thinking, "Uh yeah, that's what happens when tests are easy." But anyway, I'M DONE! WOOHOO!! By the way, all the students I saw at Cameron University looked like they were 12 years old. Did I look that young when I was at BYU? I don't believe it.
So now I can officially say that I'm a graduate and I can thank people who congratulate me without lying (it's just easier to say thanks than it is to say, "well I actually didn't graduate because I had this online class and because blah blah blah..." you get it). Anyway, the moral of this story is get your online classes done in time. Or don't even take them at all. Your life would be so much easier.
And the award for world's worst (or should I say best?) procrastinator goes to me.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Welcome to the Army
Alright so I'm resurrecting my blog. My mom has asked me a couple of times about it, and now that we're out in the real world I'm sure most of you will want to know what's going on with us and this will be the easiest way. Let me just let that sink in for a moment. We're out in the real world! This is so weird to me. It doesn't really even feel like we're out in the real world yet. Of course, we're kind of in limbo right now so that's probably why and I'm sure it will feel more real as soon as real life actually starts, but whatever.
So as you all should know, Andrew and I just moved to Lawton, Oklahoma. Here's where it is, if you were wondering.
Now I know many of you are worried about us because of the tornadoes in Oklahoma, but there's no need to worry yet, the tornadoes weren't near us. I'm sure future tornadoes might be, but no need to worry now.
We left Utah yesterday around 8 am, and since we moved ourselves, we were driving a Uhaul and had our car on a trailer. We originally planned to drive through Albuquerque, but according to the GPS the shortest route went through Colorado so we decided to go that way instead. It was a gorgeous drive (at least through Colorado), but it ended up taking us forever because the speed limits ranged from 35 to 65 for most of the way, and you can't really drive that fast in a Uhaul pulling a car anyway. What we thought would be a 16ish hour drive ended up being a 20ish hour drive. It felt like it would never end. Fortunately it did end, and we got into our hotel around 530 am. As we were coming in, there were actually tons of guys leaving for PT.
Everyone who told us about what Lawton was like would tell us how ghetto it was, so I was expecting a shantytown or something. It is pretty ghetto, but I was expecting a lot worse. If given a choice, I wouldn't choose to live here, but I'm sure there are lots and lots of worse places to live.
We didn't know where we were going to live when we got here, so today we went apartment hunting. They have a housing office here on post, and the nice lady there recommended several places for us to check out. The offices of the first two we went and looked at were closed (perhaps it was a sign...they didn't look that great anyway), but the third place, called Summit Ridge, was open, and it looked like a really nice place. When the lady in the office (her name was Brianna) asked where we were from and Andrew said we just graduated from BYU she said that she and her husband had graduated from BYU as well. Her husband was even in ROTC and Andrew actually knew him. He was in his third year of ROTC when Andrew was in his first though, so he was a bit older. Small world huh? Anyway, the apartments there were all either 2 bedroom 1 bath or 2 bedroom 2 bath, and they had two townhome options (which means it has stairs, which I didn't know before she told us), and one flat. The townhomes were cheaper, and they were both really nice. We pretty much knew right away that this was the place, although we did have a couple more we were planning to look at. Brianna offered to give us the skinny on all the places we were looking at, and her advice was actually really helpful. She may have been a little biased, and she was of course most complimentary of Summit Ridge, but it really did seem like one of the nicest places we'd probably find for a decent price. Even though we pretty much knew we were gonna rent at Summit Ridge, we decided to go look at one more place anyway, but we just ended up going right back to Summit Ridge. So anyway, we have a place to live! We went with the 2 bedroom 1 bath cause it was a little bit cheaper, and I think we're going to like it. We move in tomorrow.
Well that's pretty much it for now. Tomorrow Andrew reports and on the 31st he starts his training. It's called BOLC (pronounced bullock), which stands for Basic Officer Leadership Course, in case you were wondering. Andrew's training ends in mid October, but we don't know where we're going after that. So yeah, that's all I can think of for now. There might be more, but I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night and I think I have a cold so my brain's not working too well. So that's all folks!
So as you all should know, Andrew and I just moved to Lawton, Oklahoma. Here's where it is, if you were wondering.
We left Utah yesterday around 8 am, and since we moved ourselves, we were driving a Uhaul and had our car on a trailer. We originally planned to drive through Albuquerque, but according to the GPS the shortest route went through Colorado so we decided to go that way instead. It was a gorgeous drive (at least through Colorado), but it ended up taking us forever because the speed limits ranged from 35 to 65 for most of the way, and you can't really drive that fast in a Uhaul pulling a car anyway. What we thought would be a 16ish hour drive ended up being a 20ish hour drive. It felt like it would never end. Fortunately it did end, and we got into our hotel around 530 am. As we were coming in, there were actually tons of guys leaving for PT.
Everyone who told us about what Lawton was like would tell us how ghetto it was, so I was expecting a shantytown or something. It is pretty ghetto, but I was expecting a lot worse. If given a choice, I wouldn't choose to live here, but I'm sure there are lots and lots of worse places to live.
We didn't know where we were going to live when we got here, so today we went apartment hunting. They have a housing office here on post, and the nice lady there recommended several places for us to check out. The offices of the first two we went and looked at were closed (perhaps it was a sign...they didn't look that great anyway), but the third place, called Summit Ridge, was open, and it looked like a really nice place. When the lady in the office (her name was Brianna) asked where we were from and Andrew said we just graduated from BYU she said that she and her husband had graduated from BYU as well. Her husband was even in ROTC and Andrew actually knew him. He was in his third year of ROTC when Andrew was in his first though, so he was a bit older. Small world huh? Anyway, the apartments there were all either 2 bedroom 1 bath or 2 bedroom 2 bath, and they had two townhome options (which means it has stairs, which I didn't know before she told us), and one flat. The townhomes were cheaper, and they were both really nice. We pretty much knew right away that this was the place, although we did have a couple more we were planning to look at. Brianna offered to give us the skinny on all the places we were looking at, and her advice was actually really helpful. She may have been a little biased, and she was of course most complimentary of Summit Ridge, but it really did seem like one of the nicest places we'd probably find for a decent price. Even though we pretty much knew we were gonna rent at Summit Ridge, we decided to go look at one more place anyway, but we just ended up going right back to Summit Ridge. So anyway, we have a place to live! We went with the 2 bedroom 1 bath cause it was a little bit cheaper, and I think we're going to like it. We move in tomorrow.
Well that's pretty much it for now. Tomorrow Andrew reports and on the 31st he starts his training. It's called BOLC (pronounced bullock), which stands for Basic Officer Leadership Course, in case you were wondering. Andrew's training ends in mid October, but we don't know where we're going after that. So yeah, that's all I can think of for now. There might be more, but I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night and I think I have a cold so my brain's not working too well. So that's all folks!
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