USU, Get Connected....

Well, I am finally, OFFICIALLY a student at Utah State University!!!

:) :) This last week has been a crazy one, but it's been really good. I opted to take the USU Connections class for incoming freshman, and it was a really good decision.
Before the class we had an assignment to read the book, Zeitoun. To my surprise, it wasn't half bad. It's by far not something I would chose to read on my own, but it's a book I'm glad I read. It's about a Muslim family during Hurricane Katrina and everything they went through, from the husband deciding to stay and getting arrested, the fight to get him released, his wife taking care of their 4 kids halfway across the US without knowing where he is, to the re-building and growth of New Orleans after the hurricane struck. I learned so much about what actually happened during Hurricane Katrina, because I was so young when it happened i didn't remember much. Then, we had to write a 5 page paper on the book. not too bad.

The class started out on Wednesday, and I got to meet my teacher, my peer mentor, and all the kids in my class. They were all pretty cool. Of course, in every group of people there's the few that are really annoying, especially when most all of them are little 17/18 year old kids who haven't had any taste of reality yet. So there were a few kids I wanted to smack, but overall, it was just fine.
I got to park at the bottom of Old Main every day and hike up the stairs(let's just say, I feel like i've totally got my exercise in for sure this week!) and of course, running all around campus going to seminars, and finding our classes, learning about the computers and other resources available to the USU students, and all the other fun stuff we got to do.
Friday, we got to go do a service project for a program in our community. That was really neat, I always enjoy doing service. It makes me feel so good!! And it was AWESOME to see all 32 of us students in our USU game day t-shirts out weeding and cleaning all together. It was hot, and we got dirty but it was great. and we bonded over it as well. I love giving back to the community!

There were other fun activities that went on, friends were made, and I learned a lot! I'm really glad I took the class, even if I had to deal with annoying little teenagers all week.

I can now say, I feel a bit more prepared for my first day of official classes on Monday.

USU, Here I come!!!!

also, here's a neat video we watched in one of our workshops. It was on the Aggies Think Care Act campaign. The program is designed to:
"Encourage positive individual decisions, Promote pro-social behavior and bystander intervention, and create a culture of caring." It's about getting out in the community; both on the USU campus or around in the valley and doing things to better the community. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! :)