GRADUATION!!

Guys I did it!!! I finally received my Bachelor's degree! It certainly feels a bit weird having spent my last 3 years in Oklahoma. It started off as a place I could never see myself calling home but now I'm sad to leave. It's especially hard when many of my close friends are staying in Oklahoma for the beginning of their careers. Sure sure they all tried to get me to stay but honestly I didn't feel prepared to be a grown-up and my degree certainly wouldn't give me a grown up job in the area they are all staying in. Needless to say this is kind of scary…moving back home…do I even have a game plan? Do I have friends left back home??? Will I spend all my days in the house dying of boredom?

NOT TO WORRY MY FRIENDS!!

Do NOT feel like a failure for moving back home with your parents! You just graduated and need some time to land on your feet and to save a little more money before getting that grown up apartment to go with that grown up position after you nail the interview of course.

In my case I am headed to law school…well not yet. I still need to take the LSAT in October. So I'm taking this time as ME time, and to study. I want to do well on the LSAT in order to hopefully receive some scholarships from the law schools I will be applying to in the fall.

Do I have friends left?
OF COURSE! Remember to never burn bridges or at least keep them intact. It's hard to move away from college and keep everyone close. That's okay, just reach out and try and re-connect with the people who were your day 1 homies. These people will NEVER let you down and suck you right back into their lives! (It happened to me so there is hope)
BUT do realize that some of your friends are going to move on to different things, possibly different states to follow their careers. Sure this is going to be hard but remember friendship is forever and technology gives us ways to communicate! Snapchat and Skype my friends comes in handy!

In the meantime I found a summer job just to keep me busy and to prevent me from spending 100% of my time on the LSAT…which would drive anyone insane.

As for the dating life, I'm still single just focusing on me. If the right guy comes along that would be nice. But don't feel the pressure to hurry up and get engaged, YOU HAVE YOUR WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF YOU!! Have fun with your girls (or boys) while you can and just do you boo!

~ C

Where am I?/Who am I?

So I guess you know nothing about me..and yet the blog title is "I am who I chose to be." I will start by telling you that I currently go to a University in Oklahoma, but when the academic year is over, my place of residence is in North Texas. This is my 4th (senior) year of college, and yet I have to take another year. Why? I transferred to this University located in Oklahoma for my Junior year of college. But that is a LONG LONG LONG story that will be discussed later…and not when I am running on little to no sleep.

Homecoming

In most high schools in the United States we have what's called Homecoming. With high school this means that the football team is having their last home game of the season and this is celebrated with mums and a school dance. For college it's a bit different, especially because I go to a private University in Oklahoma. Basically, we don't have a football team so our homecoming involves our basketball team. We still have a homecoming court (homecoming queen and king, etc) but we have no dance, instead we do several events during the week and to top it all off we have a parade with floats prior to the big game later in the afternoon on a Saturday. We have social clubs are university that are sort of like sororities and fraternities without hazing, alcohol and other such behaviors associated with the stereotypical sorority and fraternity. Rather we are social service based, and solely focused on upholding our Christian routes through our club activities. For homecoming we had an over-arching theme and then each club had to "bid" on an individual theme and see if they won that theme. My social service club won the theme of The Beatles. For this we made our float into a yellow submarine, had several girls dress up as the Beatles, and the rest of us wore Tie-dye and made ourselves try and look like hippies.

Here is what I looked like for the event:

Naturally I have really curly hair but I decided to straighten it for the event!

Headband: Easy as pie, litterally just bought some cute rope like ribbon from Michaels (craft-store) and then cut a desired length and bobby pinned it the back.

Sorry I don't have any close ups of what my make-up looked like but I kept it pretty nautral.

Hope you liked my look :)