Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Life at the Y


So I figured I needed a college life update on my blog, and Taryn wanted me to put up a new post to keep her entertained:) So here's the lowdown on my BYU life so far! I'm a freshman here at BYU, Provo and I'm loving it!.

I'm taking Physical Science, so far I'm doing well and the class isn't as bad as I expected my teacher is fun so that makes it better. I also have Intro to Sociology, I liked it at first now it's getting a little boring and my first midterm and only paper are coming up and they are going to be killer so wish me luck with that. Then I have American Heritage, one of my favorite classes, Dr. Kimball is amazing and hilarious! I love going to that class. One of my other favorite classes is Human Development my teacher is SO good and I love going to that class and I really enjoy the material. It's such a good class, the emphasis is on child development and I love it! I also have Book of Mormon, it's a pretty good class my teacher is a nice guy sometimes it's a bit boring other times it's really cool. It's nice to have a class to explain more about the Book of Mormon and I'm enjoying reading it again. Then because I'm in Freshmen Academy(helped me get housing and the girls on my floor are in 4 of my classes) I have to take Freshmen Seminar, the most ridiculous complete waste of time, but hey whatever only have to go once a week. So far I'm doing really well in all my classes, it's been stressful at times and very challenging but really rewarding and I'm enjoying it a lot.
Ok Enough about classes...so my roommate Lexi is amazing! She is from San Diego(like my second home growin up lol) and she and I get along so incredibly well. We have similar class schedules b/c of Freshmen Academy so that is nice to study together and stuff. And we also just have similar daily schedules and stuff, like we study at the same time, eat at the same time, shower at the same time(not together though...), have fun at the same time and ya pretty much we were meant to live together! We have super compatible personalities and we are together like all the time it's fun. :)
So the girls on my floor are completely amazing too! We are all really close really fun really nice girls. We don't have any of that stupid girl drama, we all just get along so it's really nice! We all have bonded quickly and we do random fun stuff together. We created a fake sorority for our
floor, fake cause they're against BYU policy or whatever. It's Tau Lambda Roe...we took the greek letters for TLR for Taylor(our Hall) and made that our sorority name. The greek letters look like TAP lol ya...so we made floor shirts and I love them they are super cute! The picture is Lexi and me in our doorway in our awesome shirts:) They say TAP obviously then next to that it says BYU Taylorettes, and the back says 3200(our floor #). So ya we are all really good together and we have some fun times making shirts and going out and dressing up crazy and just chillin in the hallway. It has been nice to all have at least some shared classes so we can help each other with papers and vent about our stupid classes.
I miss my friends from high school and home a super lot! And I miss Steven like crazy of course, I've gotten excellent at bringing him up in conversation so those crazy BYU boys know to lay off! tehehe But mostly I've had a blast and I'm loving college life and everything that comes with it! It is really nice to have Holly out here with me, we've hung out quite a bit and that has been tons of fun:) I wish Taryn and Grant were sitll here but they are having fun in KY so that is good too:) Ya BYU is awesome and I'm doing great!!!











3 comments:

Holly said...

I was a little worried I wasn't going to get any mention in your blog at all! But I love having you out here, we have fun!

Grant and Taryn Layton said...

Of course she'll mention you Holly! thanks for the update, and it was a nice long one too...you need to get in the habit of posting every time something fun, funny, weird, etc happens. You'll get better :) Glad you're having SO much fun! Love you.

Danielle Harris said...

Yea, another blogger in the family! I am pretty new to it too, but it is lots of fun. It was fun to see your pictures and hear about all the fun stuff going on at BYU and California. I miss both places a ton. I am glad you are doing well and loving life!