Saturday, December 13, 2008

It's Over!!! (I mean the semester)

Well, the semester is over, and somehow I survived 15 credits while working two part-time jobs. I only worked about 20 hours a week, but that is plenty to do. I also only had 9 credits at the beginning of the semester since two of my three-credit classes were second-block classes (New Testament and Political Science 110). I also took MS101 (leadership development) and MS104 (Ranger Challenge), COMM102 (Public Speaking), and Chinese 101. My two hardest classes were the second-block classes. I guess that probably partly had to do with me getting into a relationship, as well as increasing my credits by 66%, and still working two jobs. I loved this semester, though.

I am considering whether or not to change my major again. I began with computer science, but it wasn't quite the thing for me. This semester I changed to Political Science with a broadcasting minor, but after my political science class, I'm not quite sure if that's what I want to do either. I loved my military classes, so I've considered whether or not the military is an option for me. I also love Chinese like crazy, and I loved my Communications class, so I've considered changing my major to Broadcasting with a minor in Chinese (that idea actually sounds very appealing to me). I think I am going to follow James's advice (Crissa's husband) and take a careers exploration class next semester, just to see what I really would like to do, and see if I am going in the right direction.

I guess I should also mention that I talked to Brother Wahlquist yesterday about the seminary training program. He used to be over the program, so he knows a lot about it. All I have to do for that is take two classes during the two semesters of my junior year, then I would do part-time student teaching my senior year at a local seminary. That idea is also extremely appealing to me, so we'll see what happens with that.

Here's a video from my public speaking class, as well as one from my Chinese class. I would be willing to say that these were my two favorite classes this semester.