Junior Year

Well junior year has come and is basically gone. Next week this time I will be taking my last exam and preparing for a fun filled summer of work and one summer class. Hard to believe that I will be a senior in college, really hard to believe... A lot has happened in this crazy hectic year but I loved pretty much every minute of it. I may become a student forever because I am just not ready to be a grown up. Good thing I have another year to "grow up." Graduation is May 9th and a good majority of my friends will be turning their tassel and moving on to the real world. Scary thing is a lot of them still haven't been able to find jobs. Its a scary thought being in college when the job market is in the tank. My hopes for this time next year is a job. I want to graduate knowing where I am going and what I will be doing..


Happy Earth Day to everyone, hope you are enjoying this beautiful day!!

BLOGGING SURVEY!!!

Hey Guys! If you could please complete this survey, as well as possibly post it on your blog so your followers can see it, that would be greatly appreciated!! :) It's for my Marketing Research class and any and all feedback will help!!

THANKS!!

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Spring Break

The first week in March I headed to Panama City Beach, Florida with my roommates and several other friends for spring break. I must say it was probably one of the best weeks of my life. I had so much fun and would drive the 13 hours back there right now to relive it all again. Just being on the Gulf was awesome, it was so pretty to watch the sunset every night while lounging in the hot tub or sitting on the beach! Our condo was beautiful and had a huge balcony.. the only down side was our break was earlier than most schools and at times, in our condo, I felt like I was in a retirement community. But besides that the beach was great, met a lot of people (mostly from Michigan), and of course the bars were fun too. It was pretty nice the last couple of days there but not nearly as warm as it was the following week, oh well we still laid out and got a tan! Still trying to get back into school mode after break, only have about a month and a half left of the semester and then I am a senior, scary thought!!

In the hot tub!


Some of the group at Margaritaville


Some of the girls on the beach


On our balcony, so pretty!


Laying out


Some of us out one night

High School Reunion

Obviously not my ten year.. This past Saturday I went to Greenville and saw all of my best friend's from high school. I talk to most of them often but for all of us to be together again at the same time, in the same place was awesome. I seriously haven't smiled or laughed that hard in a long time and random moments from the weekend keep coming to mind and I start laughing aloud, I think people are beginning to think I am going crazy :) School and work and life have been stressing me out lately so a break from that was very much needed.

Here is a group picture of us + my current roommate Britt



In other exciting news, 11 days till Panama City for Spring Break!!!!!!!!!

Bad Blogger

I am horrible at this.. I never ever seem to update this thing. I am going to try and be better about that. While on the topic of blogging in general, I am doing a project on social media, particularly on blogging and micro-blogging, so I am going to need everyones help with surveys and stuff :) More details to come soon.

So January has flown by and it's already almost the middle of February. January was fun, it SNOWED, school is picking up with projects and tests galore but work however has slowed down to almost extinction. My employer is cutting hours to save money so next week I am not even on the schedule and the following week I work three hours, plenty of hours to pay the rent, not. My internship is still going well, love the people I work with, the projects I have been given have kept me occupied, so far so good.

Last week I caught the infamous stomach bug and it knocked me down for a few days. Got sick Monday night and didn't eat my first meal with flavor till Friday, and let me tell you I ate and ate on Friday.

Really looking forward to Spring Break the first week of March (yup 20 days away!!!)A break from Raleigh and classes will be amazing and is already needed. I am heading to Panama City Beach, Florida with two of my roommates and a couple other friends of ours. Praying for sunny, HOT weather and just an amazing week overall!

Here are some pictures from the amazing snow day in Raleigh!!

New Semester

The spring semester started on Wednesday the 7th as did my new internship. My schedule is pretty packed for the next few months, with 2 jobs and 16 credit hours. My classes are all Junior/Senior level classes and I love finally being in concentration classes and actually learning things that are useful.

I have one class Monday/Wednesday and that is a Business Ethics class. It is really interesting so far but I am curious to see how our first quiz goes because everything we have done so far is very much up to your own opinion.

I have four classes on Tuesday and three on Thursday. On Tuesday I have a Calc lab, yes calc, and yes it has been 3 years since I have taken it. Not sure why we have to take this class but we do, we shall see how it goes. After that I have Investments and Portfolio Management, then Marketing Research, and my last class is Personal Selling. So far, so good. I have a HUGE project in both of my marketing classes, 45 minute long presentations.. It will be great experience but is a huge jump from classes with only tests to classes that require so much participation.

I am also taking an online class, Operations. I like this class better than the other online classes I have taken in the past because this one has dvd's of the professor actually teaching the material.

My internship is going great so far, I love the people I work with and the tasks I am given actually require me to think, which is awesome. My other part-time job is going.. the department I work in is going to be phased out within the next few months and they have started to cut our hours, give away our work and it has become rather stressful. Until they completely cut our job, I am going to stay around just to make some extra money, since the internship is unpaid, probably until around March. So until then I work around 20-25 hours a week, take classes, participate in AKPsi and try to have a life. So far I am making it...

Winter Break

It is so nice to be done with school and home for the holidays!! So glad that my semester is finally over and that I get a fresh start in the new year, new classes, new professors, etc. I am also starting a new internship in January. It is with ClearImage, which is a marketing firm and I will be working in the business development and marketing research departments. It is unpaid which is never fun but I am hoping the experience will be worth it! I'll keep you guys updated on that in the near future.

I got to meet Lincoln last week and he really is the cutest thing ever! I was paranoid to hold him at first, forgot how tiny newborns are. I caught on after a day, needed to because he loves to be held and I am a good auntie so of course I was picking him up whenever he made the slightest of noises. Hope to see the little reptilian again soon :) Ava is also adorable. She is such a little Princess, and I love it and her obsession with pink. My roommates always ask to see pictures of her and we are plotting to steal her and bring her to our apartment. Personally I think she would fit right in.

The weather in NC is so weird this time of year. Two days ago it was almost 70 and then today it was 35. I really hope if it continues to be so cold we see some more snow this year, we have just had some flurries and I'm kinda hoping for a little bit more.

I'm off to bake Christmas cookies, hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!!