Recent additions to the house

Here is our new washer and dryer. We have had them for a little while but it took a while to post them.This is our new glider. We got a ragged one from DI for $20 and found the fabric on a sale of a sale at Joann's. Endrit's mom is an awesome lady and reupholstered it. So in total a $120 glider was $30! I am good and Luljeta is awesome!

Scholarship

Dear Rachel,

I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected to receive the Norma Eardler Academic Career Advancement for Women scholarship during the academic year 2008-2009. The scholarship amount is $5,000 which will be paid in two increments of $2,500 each semester.

I also got a call from the Dean's office and received another $1,000 scholarship from them! WHOOT!

YAY!!!!!!

I am so happy right now!! With the money that I will be making to go to school will be enough to pay for another complete year if I don't get any more scholarships or grants. Talk about a lot less stress. I just wanted to say that I am happy about this.

Finals and Stress Relief

So the last couple of posts have told about finals, but at this moment I am not too stressed out about it. I maybe should be but I am not. I have received my study guides to the 2 finals that I do have left and I know exactly how I am going to be studying for them. It is nice because the teachers actually talked about exactly what needs to be done to study effectively for their tests and what will be expected in an answer. WHOOT!! As far as stress relief I am busting it out in the gym. I turn up my mp3 player far too loud and do my 2 routines on the elliptical. 45 minutes on interval which is 2 minutes at low intensity followed by 2 minutes of high intensity going back and forth for 45 minutes. Then I rest a bit and go back on longer intervals of 8 minutes each for 35 minutes. I love working out!!! If I get tired or bored at home, I have an exercise ball and resistance bands that I work on toning. My body is still trying to adjust it's metabolism from the medications but I think that it is getting much better. If I keep this up I may just do a half marathon with the top of Utah marathon. Who knows! It is all good. I feel that I will be more than prepared for my finals and I have kicked butt on the finals that I have already taken. Yay for me.

Normal People

I like to think that I don't get star struck, but I find that I enjoy seeing people that have made their faces known quite well in their respective areas. When I went to general conference a year ago I was star struck by the first presidency and the 12. That was an amazing thing and I don't think that I would get much more star struck than that for the rest of my life. But I was thinking about this today as I was going to the gym and not 5 seconds before I go into the gym, a Nobel prize winner walks into the gym. How great is that? I thought that this was a great thing because that man was just going to the gym like any other normal person. He was wearing an old Utah shirt and sweat pants. Nothing to say "I won a million dollars last year" I know that the money usually goes toward further research into the subject that it was given, but that isn't mandatory. It was just nice to see an important person as normal. But I have to say it was fun to share a gym with someone that I admire in the field of science.

Death, Taxes and Finals

Finals are not my most favorite things to do in the world, but in the world of schooling they are as inevitable as death and taxes. I have had a final already this week and classes have not let out yet. I have an essay final in History that will be a gargantuan pain in the behind and a regular midterm in my Earth Materials class. It won't be too bad just as long as I get around to studying along with all of the end of semester assignments that teachers love to give out. I will be done with all finals and assignments Tuesday, April 29. This is the first time that I have a semester end before May. I don't get too much time off though because I will be Starting summer classes May 12. I hope that I am emotionally ready to have physics ingrained into my brain from 8:00 am-12:00 Monday-Thursday and from 8:00-2:00 on Fridays. Lucky me! I will have homework due every day with a test every Friday. I just have to keep reminding myself that I will get both semesters done in one summer without having to think about any other classes. It will be busy and interesting, but I know that it will be worth it.
I think that I have planned out what classes I am taking during which semester. There are a few classes than can be taken whenever, and I am hoping to utilize summer semesters to get done with some of the classes within a couple of weeks time. I really would like to do that. I will just have to see how it goes when the time is come to make my semester schedule. I can't wait to graduate.
I was looking at the graduation procedures and they are a bit different from those in ISU. The school is so big that they have a commencement for all of the graduating class, but you actually have little ceremonies for each of the different colleges in the school. Endrit will be graduating from the college of Science and I will be graduating from the college of Mines and Earth Sciences. For married couples they allow you to graduate in the other's college, but we haven't decided who will go to which one. Endrit wants to graduate from the College of Science, but I want to go to the graduation that will last about half the time because it graduates half the people. Who knows. I think that I will give in because he is the one that is getting the PhD and deserves to graduate wherever he wants. We may even graduate with our respective colleges if we think that we can attend both of them. It would be a long day but oh well. The things that I think about. I just want to have good pictures to have with both of us graduating. This is all dependent of if Endrit is able to graduate the same time as me like we are planning. Only time will tell. I just wanted to explain how graduation works around here.
I am getting ready to present my last big assignment in one of my classes but my team members aren't here so I blog...