I finished my first semester of college at BYUI a couple weeks ago! Let me just tell you that it has been an amazing experience! I absolutely love the school and the friends that I’ve made this semester. I’m kind of in denial that my first semester is already over! Time has just flown by so quickly. It’s crazy how much I have learned in such a short amount of time. I have loved my time at BYUI thus far. One of the things that I have learned this semester is how to bundle myself up. I am very inexperienced when it comes to snow and cold weather. Before I went up to school, I had no idea that show actually falls in flakes(it does and they are amazing). The cold in Idaho is so different from the cold in California. In Idaho the temperature is lower but it isn’t as humid as it is on the coast. It’s freezing and it is going to get colder but it is also absolutely gorgeous. I know that it is going to be so much colder next semester but that just means that I’m going to have to bundle up more! I’ve already changed my major in my first semester. It isn’t rare that students take the introduction classes to their majors and find that their initial idea of what they wanted to study wasn’t for them. This semester, I was one of those people. I took the intro to web design class and I could tell that it wasn’t for me. I prayed about it and my mind immediately went to how much I loved my foundations writing and reasoning class. So now, my major is English with a minor in Communications. I’m pretty sure that English is what I want to study. Each time I was assigned to write a paper in my English class, I got excited. I really like incorporating what I love to do in my school work. I took an Interpersonal Theory and Communications class this semester as well and I loved it. My teacher was amazing and I learned so much in that class. It was a lot of participation and we did a lot of presentations. At first I thought that I had wanted to drop the class but after the first few weeks it had grown on me. I’m really grateful that I had the opportunity to take that class because it made me so much more comfortable speaking to groups of people without getting nervous. I liked the class so much that I made communications my minor! I’m taking a group dynamics class next semester with the same teacher and I’m pretty stoked about it!
I have always been known to get really stressed out whenever I have a lot on my plate. But this semester I was able to figure out how to make time to do everything that I needed to in a day. I learned how to study in a way that works best for me, which I had always struggled with in high school. I think that even though it was a lot of work, this semester has been so rewarding. If you were to have asked me three months ago how I was going to move to a whole different state, take care of myself, and go to school all at the same time I would have said that I had no idea. But now that I have finished a semester, I think I have become more confident in what I can do. I can say now that I am really grateful that I got to come home for Christmas. I stayed up at school for Thanksgiving and I was a little bummed that I didn’t get to come home and see the fam bam. But I had Soph up there with me so it wasn’t so bad. I was happy to come home this time but it was also a little weird. I guess that I had gotten so used to living in an apartment and going shopping for my own groceries and going to class that when I came home, everything was a tad bit unfamiliar. But I am happy that I came home. The last week or two of school, I was really missing the beach, the fam bam and my friends from home. But now that I’ve been here for about a week and a half, I’m counting down the days until the 2nd, which is when I’m going back to Rexburg. I want to say that am super grateful for all the people who have supported and encouraged me to try a semester up at BYUI. I can’t imagine how different it would have been had I chose not to go. If I had any advice to give you, it would be to try new things and to push yourself to do your absolute best!
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My name is Ellie. I am a sophomore at BYU Idaho. I am excited to live life and to share a small piece of it with you!
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