The last three and a half months have been full of adventure. After starting life at a new school surrounded by new people, new professors, new experiences, and new opportunities, I've experienced a lot of "moments." I have compiled a list of moments which may be experiences, realizations, or accomplishments to sum up what my life has been like during my first semester at a new college.
Here we go:
1. Knowing that I would do things EXACTLY the same if given the chance to rewind to September of 2007 and start over.
2. Loving the fact that I only came in contact with 9 smokers while making my way around campus the entire semester.
3. Being taken out by a skateboarder--I broke my arm. Yes, skateboarding is the way to get around at UW-La Crosse. The sidewalks can be a scary place. Okay, I was kidding about the whole breaking my arm part.
4. Spending $101.25 on a calculator and realizing it was worth every penny.
5. Receiving a 94% on my third statistics exam.
6. Receiving a 99% on my fourth statistics exam, which was the highest in the class.
7. Passing my statistics class with not only an expected C, but an AB! If I put my mind to something, I can accomplish anything.
8. Deciding that I will have no career that has anything to do with statistics, despite the fact that I do actually know what I am doing.
(Side note: statistics was the biggest pain in my you-know-what all semester)
9. Being reminded once again that in life, there are no coincidences; I made an immeasurably beneficial resource on campus the second week of the semester.
10. Developing a highly effective and routine study schedule.
11. Being completely surprised by how different people can act two hours south of where I formerly went to school. That's right, people are not always that friendly.
12. Falling madly in love with The Rec.
13. Realizing I spend more time in the library than my own bed.
14. Deciding that I will not decide what I want to do with my life until I absolutely have to.
15. Getting offered an internship on the spot at a place I was applying to volunteer for.
16. Staring to volunteer every week doing something I love.
17. Having a person dressed as a gorilla and a person dressed as a banana run through my music lecture two days before Halloween.
18. Being asked to TA a class by my professor for next semester. UW-La Crosse started to feel like home for me that day.
19. Deciding that it is okay to not work as often as I would like.
20. Keeping the weight I lost over the summer off, yay me!
Despite many hardships over the past three and a half months, transferring has been the best decision I could have ever made. I am incredibly thankful for how much my life has fallen into place and how many opportunities I have had presented to me. I chose to focus on the more positive moments of the semester because when I look back, I do not want to think about all the struggles that I endured during this time in my life.
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