2014-2015, A Year In Review
With this, I have finally finished my third year of school. How time flies! I can't believe I'm a senior, but to be honest I am ready to get out of school. I'm feeling very burnt out after a very tough year, both emotionally and academically.
Fall semester was one of, if not THE hardest, semesters I have faced thus far in school. I hope it stays that way! I was taking some really challenging classes, the hardest being Vertebrate Zoology. There was a lot of change at the beginning of the school year; I only had one week of summer (since I was taking classes the whole summer) and was living in a new apartment, while also focusing on a new path for my career: biology. I had finally decided that my efforts would be more focused on earning a biology degree and somehow working with animals. That being said, I am still determined to get my music degree! Anyways, I started fall semester already burnt out from taking classes full-time during the summer. I was exhausted! And my classes in the fall were not easy either; vertebrate zoology was easily the hardest class I have ever taken, but I really enjoyed the material which at least made it bearable. That being said, I was started to get really stressed out. I knew that I had to find internships for the summer, and that I was behind the game since I had only just sort of figured out what I wanted to do. After talking to a biology advisor, I discovered that there is a career in interpretation, or teaching the general public about the natural world in non-traditional settings. Great, I thought, of course I would pick another career with no money!
As the semester went on, things began to quickly go down hill. I'm not really sure what happened exactly, or what went wrong, but I ended up in a cycle of going through the motions of school every week, then on Friday and Saturday locking myself in my apartment, never hanging out with anyone and crying myself to sleep. Things got bad, and it really was a scary time; I didn't know why I was sad, or why I wouldn't try to hang out with anyone when that was all I wanted to do. But thankfully I made it to the end of the semester and somehow managed to get all A's and went home for winter break.
Winter break was a huge turn around. It was so nice being home again! But the fall semester got me thinking, that what I need is to be busy all the time and to meet a new group of people I could depend on, so that I could maybe find some more friends. That's when I, along with the suggestion of my mom and dad, started thinking about possibly joining a social sorority.
Come spring semester, I had started school again and wasn't enjoying any of my classes. One class could have been good in theory, but the teacher was just so boring I began to hate the subject. Another I had no interest in, but I was taking it so I could sit with a friend in class and have a study partner. But everything changed when I was actually in an honors ambassador meeting and one of the girls mentioned that she was the Vice President of Phi Mu, a new sorority on campus. I talked to her some since I was curious about joining a social sorority, and she gave me the name of another sister, who came and met me and took me over to the house to meet some of the girls. Somehow I knew right then that Phi Mu was where I was meant to belong, and I was ecstatic when I received my bid a few weeks later!
Even though I have only been a member of Phi Mu for a short time, I can easily say that it is the best decision I have ever made. It has really turned my life around, and I love having such a strong support group of sisters. There's always someone in town to hang out with, and we try to go to each other's events to make all of our day's special, whether through philanthropy or just plain fun. It's funny reflecting on how the "me" from freshman year or high school would have reacted at the notion of current "me" joining a social sorority. For all of my life I have had such a negative connotation of sorority life, and I thought it was just all partying, drinking, fake friends you had to buy and dumb blondes. Thankfully, I have never been more wrong! I found that by joining Phi Mu, I have finally found where I belong on campus. I'm excited to enter my senior year with my new sisters!
Fall semester was one of, if not THE hardest, semesters I have faced thus far in school. I hope it stays that way! I was taking some really challenging classes, the hardest being Vertebrate Zoology. There was a lot of change at the beginning of the school year; I only had one week of summer (since I was taking classes the whole summer) and was living in a new apartment, while also focusing on a new path for my career: biology. I had finally decided that my efforts would be more focused on earning a biology degree and somehow working with animals. That being said, I am still determined to get my music degree! Anyways, I started fall semester already burnt out from taking classes full-time during the summer. I was exhausted! And my classes in the fall were not easy either; vertebrate zoology was easily the hardest class I have ever taken, but I really enjoyed the material which at least made it bearable. That being said, I was started to get really stressed out. I knew that I had to find internships for the summer, and that I was behind the game since I had only just sort of figured out what I wanted to do. After talking to a biology advisor, I discovered that there is a career in interpretation, or teaching the general public about the natural world in non-traditional settings. Great, I thought, of course I would pick another career with no money!
As the semester went on, things began to quickly go down hill. I'm not really sure what happened exactly, or what went wrong, but I ended up in a cycle of going through the motions of school every week, then on Friday and Saturday locking myself in my apartment, never hanging out with anyone and crying myself to sleep. Things got bad, and it really was a scary time; I didn't know why I was sad, or why I wouldn't try to hang out with anyone when that was all I wanted to do. But thankfully I made it to the end of the semester and somehow managed to get all A's and went home for winter break.
Winter break was a huge turn around. It was so nice being home again! But the fall semester got me thinking, that what I need is to be busy all the time and to meet a new group of people I could depend on, so that I could maybe find some more friends. That's when I, along with the suggestion of my mom and dad, started thinking about possibly joining a social sorority.
Come spring semester, I had started school again and wasn't enjoying any of my classes. One class could have been good in theory, but the teacher was just so boring I began to hate the subject. Another I had no interest in, but I was taking it so I could sit with a friend in class and have a study partner. But everything changed when I was actually in an honors ambassador meeting and one of the girls mentioned that she was the Vice President of Phi Mu, a new sorority on campus. I talked to her some since I was curious about joining a social sorority, and she gave me the name of another sister, who came and met me and took me over to the house to meet some of the girls. Somehow I knew right then that Phi Mu was where I was meant to belong, and I was ecstatic when I received my bid a few weeks later!
Even though I have only been a member of Phi Mu for a short time, I can easily say that it is the best decision I have ever made. It has really turned my life around, and I love having such a strong support group of sisters. There's always someone in town to hang out with, and we try to go to each other's events to make all of our day's special, whether through philanthropy or just plain fun. It's funny reflecting on how the "me" from freshman year or high school would have reacted at the notion of current "me" joining a social sorority. For all of my life I have had such a negative connotation of sorority life, and I thought it was just all partying, drinking, fake friends you had to buy and dumb blondes. Thankfully, I have never been more wrong! I found that by joining Phi Mu, I have finally found where I belong on campus. I'm excited to enter my senior year with my new sisters!