Begin at the Beginning

Freshman year:  What a failure that was.  Glad it's dead and gone, glad I only had to live through half of it!
Didn't really meet any great people; the ward was okay, but nothing spectacular.  My roommates were great, but they were pretty much the only friends I really made last year.  So I left.  (Okay, that's not really WHY I left.)  I left college for the second semester of my freshman year at college.  What did I go do?  I left to work at DISNEYLAND!
Disneyland:  What a growing time for me!  I was truly away from my family, from friends, and from the comforts of Utah.  I lived with 4 girls, none of which really shared the same values I'd grown up with, values which I cherish.  At first I had some real issues with my roommates.  But I was able to work through the bad situation, and I grew so close with some of them!  One in particular, Sam Weigers became my best friend in California, and I'll never forget her.  She taught me so much... just live life out loud!  Laugh!  Be the best possible person you can be.  Another trial at Disneyland:  I had to work every Sunday.  Something I abhorred.  But I, again, worked through the situation.  I was able to go to most of my church meetings anyway. 
Disneyland was really quite a blessing to me.  All my life I thought I wanted to be a nurse, because I love medicine.  Now I realize that no matter what career path I choose, I just want to work with people and see them happy!  Nursing could still take me down that road, but if I can't get into a good nursing program, I have other options.  I could really just go back to Disneyland for the rest of my life too... I really love it!

Now, let's bring things up-to-date.  Sophomore year:
I'm living in an apartment complex, so much better than on-campus freshman housing!  I'm meeting so many more people, and things actually happen!  People are social here.  I'm meeting new friends!
Classes are generally pretty good.  I LOVE my nutrition class, and I am learning so much from it!  I love learning about foods, about how to read nutrition facts, about what foods are really good for you, despite what the media or food labels say.  Minute Maid juice:  ya, awful.  Not even really juice.  But other than nutrition, my classes are still pretty awesome.  I'm taking, for my religion credit, Teachings of the Living Prophets.  I LOVE this class too!  I love to learn about what is more prevelent to our times.  Yes, the standard works are great, but the living Prophet is what will get us through the times that face us today.  Chemistry - well, I felt really confident about it.  I thought I had been doing so well in it!  I really thought I understood exactly what was going on in it.... then I took my first test.  Wow.  Apparently I know nothing. 
But it'll be okay.  It just taught me that I need to study a LOT more before my tests.  I just needed to get kicked in the butt about that.

And that's my time so far!  College life... so good!