Teen Movie Dreams and Realistic(ish) College Goals

     This is the first post, hopefully in many but more than likely like four or five before I forget about and never look at this blog again.
     I guess only time will actually be able to tell though, so here's  to finding this in ten years and wondering what the heck I was thinking at eighteen years old. :)

     Today is August 22, 2019 in a few short days I will be moving to Hawaii to attend Brigham Young University Hawaii... what the heck how crazy is that??? I'm literally moving to Hawaii and I'm actually starting university.
     I don't think I ever expected all of this to come so... casually. For some reason I thought that when it was time to graduate high school go to college yada yadah yada that it would feel more like a coming of age moment like teen movie style. There would be a super cut montage of my senior year, big graduation, then finally going to college. But it just kind of crept up and now all of a sudden its here and my bags are already packed and Abby is already gone and this is happening.
     Maybe I'm glad though that it doesn't feel like such a big deal. Don't get me wrong I'm taking the whole thing seriously and am ready to work hard in school. But I am also glad that it doesn't feel like such an ordeal-- leaving home, starting college. In a way it just feels like a very natural progression of things like yep, its time to go.
 
     Enough about that though, here are some of my goals for the upcoming semester:

• Get all A's: hopefully this one is realistic given that I've heard that BYUH classes aren't (extremely) difficult also I am going to college to do school so I might as well actually do well in it right?
• Create close and Lasting friendships: this one is a little more difficult to measure but well... you get the idea make friends that are more than just in class we chat sometimes type of friends.
• Be spiritually strengthened: this one is also difficult to measure but essentially if I plan on submitting mission papers in January, I will be going through the temple and preparing to serve so I need to be spiritually ready and strengthened. Maybe I'll make a more measurable goal like go to the temple at lease once a month while I'm there. (especially with it so close to campus, just makes sense to go) 
• Work out at least 3 times a week: okay this one needs to be measurable otherwise I KNOW I won't actually do it. Maybe I'll pick days and swim one day, walk another day, and do yoga some other day. I've been so bad about exercising this year and need to just do it. 
• Get a tan: this one is just super obvious, I'm moving to Hawaii and I want to actually look like I live there. Also shouldn't be that hard seeing as any sun exposure would be a step up from where I am now. 
• Prove to my self that I'm on the right path: this last one just kind of links back to my insecurity about whether or not I'm at the right school and doing the right things. Also that my State Department dreams are reachable and Political Science and Arabic aren't actually useless majors.

     That's all I got for today. I am going to try and make a goal of writing once a week just to keep myself accountable; so tune in next week to here my first impressions of Hawaii and my roommates and my new home for the next eight months!!!

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