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Didn't realize I actually used to write in this journal much at all... I guess that was before Livejournal which was before Xanga... for those of you interested (I'm flattering myself and pretending that those people exist), my user name there is "melthesouthernbelle."
Just wanted to write something up here so that the last thing (and first displayed) wasn't the sad news of one of my best friends in the world moving away. So much has happened, but basically, now I'm at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This is my third year (and I will only be staying for four, can't afford more!), and I'm a Psychology and Policy Studies double-major at Baker College (for those of you familiar with Rice's Oxford/Hogwarts style college system). And I love most of my time here, though there are a lot of hard moments, struggles, uphill battles, but I chose that and I chose to fight those more or less on my own when I chose to come out to Texas, where I knew nothing and no one and my family stayed back in Georgia. But it was definitely one of the best decisions of my life, and definitely my first truly substantial decision that I made for myself and that dramatically affected my life. And I did a pretty good job, considering I'm still here three years later and enjoying it, all things considered. If only everyone else could find something that works out so well, particularly considering the hell I went through to get here - only the last little bit of which is chronicled here!
So, I guess taking a risk paid off for me in the college decision making...
Just wanted to write something up here so that the last thing (and first displayed) wasn't the sad news of one of my best friends in the world moving away. So much has happened, but basically, now I'm at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This is my third year (and I will only be staying for four, can't afford more!), and I'm a Psychology and Policy Studies double-major at Baker College (for those of you familiar with Rice's Oxford/Hogwarts style college system). And I love most of my time here, though there are a lot of hard moments, struggles, uphill battles, but I chose that and I chose to fight those more or less on my own when I chose to come out to Texas, where I knew nothing and no one and my family stayed back in Georgia. But it was definitely one of the best decisions of my life, and definitely my first truly substantial decision that I made for myself and that dramatically affected my life. And I did a pretty good job, considering I'm still here three years later and enjoying it, all things considered. If only everyone else could find something that works out so well, particularly considering the hell I went through to get here - only the last little bit of which is chronicled here!
So, I guess taking a risk paid off for me in the college decision making...
First Days of Summer
School is finally out and I am officially a Lakeside alumnus. Weird. Felt like forever when I was there, but looking back, it feels like I just started school there.
I'm going to Rice University in Houston, Texas this fall. And now that I'm leaving I have finally hit my stride. My sister and I are getting along really well...which of course means that the time of my departure must be getting close. Isn't that always the way it goes? The irony of it all...
Cathryn left and moved to Miami. She's coming back Saturday to finish stuff up so it still doesn't feel like she really moved yet. I guess I'm telling myself that she hasn't moved yet so t
Just change that college name
Of course now that I posted saying that I was actually almost definitely going to the University of Georgia, I got the call from an admissions officer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, telling me that I am in! I'm thrilled to death that I'm in now, but I'm not entirely sure where I'm going to school.
I was on "priority waitlist" at Rice because there was this whole ugly mess up with my transcript (the same counselor who sent off all seven of my teacher recommendations without names or addresses and thought that they would get there.....this is the same woman who actually graduated from Vanderbilt....GRADUATED!!! not flunked out! And she
The end is near...
I'm going to UGA almost definitely, which is exciting and scary at the same time. I've talked about it to death, so I'm not really going to expand on it, but I just wanted to put that here so that people know and because I know I haven't updated in a while and I kinda started the college decision-making process as a storyline in my journals and I didn't want to leave a big cliffhanger...oooo...scary, I know. Lol.
I am so freaking tired right now because I've been working non-stop basically all year...come to think of it, all eighteen years, but particularly right now. It's the final push of the school year, of high school really. Only one mo
Sick On Spring Break
I'm really tired...probably mostly because the pollen count here is about four billion and so I've been so sick all week...my eyes are burning, my throat is raw, and my nose is running. But, I don't even freaking care because this is my first even remotely semi-real spring break! Freshmen and sophomore years I went on the tour of grandparents (dad's parents in rural Georgia and mom's parents in south Florida - no swimming without a hairnet, trust me, I learned that one the hard way). Last year I visited a lot of different colleges all over and I got to interview on campus. Since colleges don't like interviewing juniors, I got all the shitty t
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I majored in psychology too! Not policy studies though. I could barely handle the one major. Now I teach math. Go figure. I liked the Baker commons. I wonder if it's changed. Hmmm.