I just submitted my mission papers online! I put December 21st as my availability date to go on my mission. It might not be on that exact date though, but I would like to leave before Christmas.

After submitting the papers online, the website took me to a "What to Do after Your Recommend Is Complete" page.
It told me basic stuff that I need to do in order to prepare for my mission. It also said that I will need to meet with the Bishop and the Stake President to review my recommendation form.

The very last thing that the site said was this:

At Church headquarters, your recommendation form will be reviewed by the Quorum of the Twelve, who will assign you to a mission. Thereafter a call letter from the President of the Church, accompanied by a call packet with information about what you will need to do to prepare to begin your mission, will be sent to the address you specified in your recommendation form.

 
It's neat, thinking that the Quorum of the Twelve in Salt Lake will actually be reviewing me. I just cant wait to get that letter from Thomas S. Monson, telling me where I'll be serving for the next two years =]

Tomorrow I start my first classes as a college student. I'm only taking two basic classes, ENC 1101 and MAT 1033. Don't really have time or money for anything else.
I havent bought any books yet, because they're all sold out at the bookstore, and I'm still not even sure what I need. I'm going to rent my books from Chegg after I find out what I really need.
It'll also be my first time waking up pretty early. My English class starts at 7:30, then I get out at 8:45. THEN I have work that starts at 10. I wonder what I'll do between school and work... probably hang out at the library. Tuesday I start my math class, which is 8-9:15. I'm really not looking forward to math, because I've already had this teacher in high school. She kinda speaks like an old withered elephant, and she shows no mercy. I'll just have to kill her with kindness.
Hopefully I'll do really well in these classes. I'm trying to boost my GPA before I leave for my mission in December. I want to boost it so I'll have a better chance at getting accepted to BYU after I return.
Well, wish me luck! I'll most likely need it.

Guess what? I'm graduating this Saturday!! I've been done with classes since last week, but I don't officially graduate till Saturday morning.

I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I want it to be over with, but yet I'm realizing that... I'm done with school. Or at least until college.

I remember at the beginning of this year I kept on saying that I don't feel like a senior yet. I still really don't. Senior. That's me. Graduate. That'll be me also.

Around the time that I get my diploma, and as I'm wearing my cap and gown, then I might start to feel like I'm a senior.

I'm also graduating from Seminary on the same day! It's later in the day though. I'll be graduating twice!!

It's going to be a big day for me and my family. I can't wait!

I love this guy. He makes me laugh so hard! =D

 

Tomorrow is basically the last day of school for me! I have to take two exams. Photoshop & American Government.
After those two are taken, I have no more classes!!!!
Wish me luck on the exams!

Just finishing some photoshop stuff. I hooked up my 22" monitor to my laptop, and it makes so much easier to work with.

And I've always wondered what would happen if you took a screenshot with two monitors attached.... now I know.

I'm actually pretty ticked off at myself, because I just realized that my GPA is too low to get into a college like BYU. That kills me. And it's not because I'm dumb, it's mostly because I procrastinate and get sidetracked on everything that I do, because I have ADD.
I even made sure I missed as few days as possible in seminary this year, and did other required stuff, to better my chances of getting in.

 I hate watching people get better grades then I do when they know nothing. They know how to cheat really good, and I sit here struggling to keep a C in my class.

 I killed english with a F at the beginning of this year, and a D in math. I've taken Spanish about seven times because I haven't passed it yet.

 And do you know what sucks even more? When all of my friends get invited to these nice scholarship nights, and I don't. No one wants to give me a scholarship. I won't ever get a scholarship. They don't care about me. I'll just sit here and struggle some more.

 My dream was to get into BYU. I wanted to get a nice scholarship so I could continue my education. I actually wanted to make a few good friends in the church, live in the mountains, walk through the halls of BYU. Well because I've screwed up so many times, BYU would laugh at me even if I tried to apply.

 I can't even get my associates degree over the summer, because it would take me a whole year to get it.

 I just hate trying, and getting nothing. I try so hard to battle my ADD so I can do good, but it's got the best of me.

 If I had the chance to go back in time and redo high school, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Watch out.

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Heheh, I have a beta copy of Windows 7! Hopefully I'll get the release candidate and use that alongside Ubuntu, and the RC of W7 is supported for a year.

It actually is pretty neat. It boots up fast, and it's got a bunch of new features. I think this one will resolve the Vista problems, thank goodness.

And I'll let you in on a little secret: I'm actually running Windows 7 UNDER Ubuntu.
Yes, thats right. I'm running it under a Virtual Emulator inside of Ubuntu.

But anyway, I think it's pretty neat so far. And in my opinion of operating systems, I support all of them. Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows (But only XP and now 7. Vista can die). I think the average user needs multiple operating systems, and shouldn't just depend on just one. Unless if you have a Mac, then you'll all set.

But as for me, I use Ubuntu a lot, but sometimes I need Windows to do something.

Well, I'm done blabbering. I just wanted to let you know how Windows 7 is doing.