I chose my major for many reasons. I love psychology and always have. In high school, it was my best subject, and I was just able to grasp the information better than any other subject — so it was kind of like this major was calling me. When I first started at Fontbonne, I was an Occupational Therapy major. Just recently, I’ve changed my major and created a minor to specialize in nutrition. Along with psychology, I’ve always been fascinated in food and nutrition and they way it effects everyone. I hope to someday be able to either study how food effects people’s behaviors, or I would want to help those who struggle with eating disorders. I’m really excited to begin taking nutrition courses!
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Break was fantastic. Break was phenomenal, break was magnificent, break was everything I could have wanted and more. But since break is over and I’m back at school, I might as well be happy to be back! And I am: happy to be around my friends and happy to get started with what should be a fun semester.
I’m excited for lots of things this semester: Track meets, the Environmental Fair, the Spring Formal… I’m even pretty excited for my classes: Business Management, Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, and American History. My schedule is pretty balanced, too, so I should have plenty of time to get homework done.
So here’s to the new semester! May it be a good one for all!
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And 2012 has begun! Which means…. Welcome back to college! I missed Fontbonne. The kids, the teachers, and of course being on my own again. Break just seemed to drag on for me. I am still used to my one week of high school break so this seemed like FOREVER!
Classes and homework are back too. I had all my classes and have no problems with any of them. Although my online class is already making homework due….. This will be a great semester!
Also, being back means volleyball has started. I am so excited for this season. We have a great team and have been working very hard in practices for our upcoming game on January 28th.
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I will never underestimate the power of sleep again. Last semester, I had the stupid idea of, “How about I stay up as late as I possibly can to study and get stuff done?” This was a stupid idea because it led to numerous, undesired side effects:
- I began to crave food, which is bad considering how closely I monitor my diet to ensure that it’s as clean as possible. Yes, I began to eat and eat and eat (or so I thought anyway. To most people in this “super-size me” culture, however, I probably still appeared to be consuming hardly anything.)! Plus, anytime I felt stress coming on, I found myself eating. Seriously. When I found out I had to write a paper that was due in a couple of hours one morning, I found myself eating. Stress/emotional eating (even if it’s eating nutritious food, as was my case) is bad with a capital “B”.
- I found myself falling asleep in class. I remember sitting in chemistry lecture, which was my earliest morning class I had last semester, literally holding my eyelids open with my fingers because they felt so heavy. If Dr. Bookstaver didn’t think I was weird before that, he definitely does now.
- I found it harder to motivate myself to study and do other productive things.
So, I’ve come to the conclusion that depriving myself of sleep was probably the dumbest idea ever. As evidenced by the above list, staying up late to study wasn’t helping my academics at all. I mean, if you have no motivation to study and you can’t stay awake in class, you are, as my favorite high school teacher Mr. Reeves would say, “SOL”, or “Sorry, out of luck” (ha). I was so good at going to bed early over the summer, and to completely throw my circadian rhythm out of whack like that during the school year was hurting me much more than it was actually helping me. Thus, I have decided that I am not going to shop online, look at my favorite fashion blogs, or read the latest album reviews on Pitchfork until all of my homework is complete. In other words, no more procrastination. If I hadn’t procrastinated so much last semester, I wouldn’t have felt the need to stay up so late studying because I would’ve been finished with everything I needed to do.
Since I’ve rediscovered my love of sleep and my body is no longer craving energy through food because I’m getting adequate rest, I’ve decided to start working on getting ahead now while I have all of this free time so I’m not buried once school actually starts. That means I’ll spend less time doing homework and more time getting the sleep I so desire. So, as hard for me to do this as it was, I broke out the old Organic textbook and began to read ahead.
Am I totally dorky/boring/lame for working ahead so I can go to bed earlier than my 12-year-old sister? Maybe. But when you are experiencing the dilemma of having to hold your eyelids open during class halfway through the semester, I’m sure you’ll see my side of the situation.
Anyway, have a great first week back everyone!
-Carly
P.S. Holy Ghost! is my new musical obsession. Their self-titled album seriously gets better with every listen, and the totally 80’s music videos, which showcase an old-school New York City (the love of my life) in all its glory, are super addicting as well. Check out “Hold My Breath” here!
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