Exam week

I hope everyone is doing well in their studies and the exams they've taken. My first exam isn't until Wednesday so I've been slothing around my dorm room. Let me define slothing, all I've been doing is eating and sleeping. That is not exaggeration. I literally woke up at twelve, at breakfast, messed around on my laptop for a little, and immediately went back to bed. It's not one of my finest moments in life, but... I like my sleep. :)

First dead day

Well it is official. We have no more classes this semester. While these days are primarily designed for us to utilize for last minute studying I will be spending today and tomorrow napping. I actually only woke up a couple hours ago and went to lunch with my big. I am now back in my bed ready for a nappy nap! This makes me sound incredibly lazy, but I prefer to think of it as tapering for my brain. I'm letting it rest before it has to go into hyperactive mode. Yeah... that's it!

Last dayyyyy

It's the last day of classes!!! I'm on my second monster and its only 9 o'clock! I'm wired as can be and I'm ready to attack the day! Yes attack the day! It's kind of difficult to type I'm so hyper! I just noticed I've used an exclamation point at the end of every sentence! I probably shouldn't have opened the second monster. But... It's happened! Oh no, one sentence with out  an exclamation point! It's a sad day!

Finals

So.... who's excited for finals?!?! Not this kid! I've been diligently working on study guides for the past couple days. At this point I do just want to take the finals already. Not to say that I'm excited to take them, just ready to. I can't believe my freshman year of college is almost over. It's really crazy! I'm one fourth done with college. In three years I'll be commissioning into the United States Army. I don't nearly feel ready for it. I'm sure I will be when the time comes. Just thinking about how short my stay at Auburn will be is kinda scary.

Gapping

So... I have been trying to drop statistics for a while now, past the drop date. This was a huge problem. I'm bad at math and I had switched majors, there was zero motivation. As much as I tried to fight it, there was zero motivation. Then I discovered that if you gap a class not in your major it just disappeared. Statistics, consider yourself gapped!

It's the final countdown

Its that time of the year, when everyone is stressed out and on edge. School's almost out and we're about to have three months to ourselves. The sad part that occurred to me the other day was that our senior trainers for ROTC are about to commission in the big Army and we're about to never see them again. It's a relatively small Army though, so maybe one day we'll happen upon each other. Although the chances of me running into Barefield since he is branching Infantry are slim to none. Anyways... back on topic. Everyone good luck with exams! :)

Cadet of the Semester

So, my last post referenced how I got nominated for cadet of the semester. Well, I went to my review board and we were all lined up in class alphabetic order. I was last in my line. When it was finally my turn to go in I was extremely nervous. Before hand LT Sotolongo assured me that nervous was good. To make a long sstury short, I am first platoon's cadet of the semester!! And I got my first challenge coin (which is a big deal).

Cadet Review Boards

I was nominated for cadet of the semester last week. Today I have my review board interview. I was studying like crazy because I would be honored to hold that title, however, we were recently told that $1000 dollars was at stake. Everyone else started studying... SO now I'm extremely nervous. Basically I have to enter a room with three officer and three NCOs and they get to interrogate me. I'm super excited, but super nervous! Wish me luck!

I want to check you for ticks

SO I had an interesting weekend. Saturday morning when I got out of the shower I discovered a tick on my back. Where did it come from? I have no idea. My roommate and I called everyone we could think of. We took everyone's advice until we came upon Cunningham and he came to the rescue. It was then that we were informed that we did everything we were not supposed to do. Our tweezers weren't sufficient so he went to go buy new ones. On the way he ran out of gas and then a wasp flew into his car... Long story short, the tick is still not out.

I need that one thing

I know people view me as "army strong" and super hooah and what not... but I'm still a female.  I'm still going to react like one. I still have feelings. I may act all tough, but deep down I am very insecure. Guys will always be a mystery to me. Despite the fact that I spend like 90% of my time around them I have yet to understand them. What I do know is that most Army guys think they can just toy with girls' emotions and it'll be ok after a simple apology.

AHHH!!!

The second I put on my uniform and realized that it's only Wednesday. It's the middle of the week and I'm already about to die of sleep deprivation. It's like all our teachers conspired together to figure out the best week to overload us. Waking up for PT every other day doesn't help with my sleep issue. I know I need PT so I dont complain... too much at least. I'm still really tired though. This is me NOT whining by the way.

Moday Pop Quiz

So how about that pop quiz this morning. Welcome back to school from the long weekend, BAM! I love how the phrases were so obscure that it was very difficult to even make up answers. Once she said that we were talking about resources it was easier to come up with something to write down at least. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. It's nose to the grindstone now finals are almost here 

Its a hard life

I know that the title of this blog is way over exaggerated. I am aware that living in the United States almost automatically says it’s not a hard life. I know other countries have it worse, but I'm going to take a second to whine about my life. Mainly because we have freedom of speech and I can.
It is freshman year and I’m already sick of school. It’s going to be a rough next three years. All I want to do is make good grades so that I can get active duty and branch. If we took the academics out of school and I was just here to work out and learn how to be a good officer in the United States Army I’d be a happy camper.