Schedule

Hi guys, it's that time of year again! Signing up for classes.... oh the joy. I signed up on Sunday night - well, actually 12:00 am Monday morning. So here is the schedule:

Physiology (PDBio 305) - Lecture MTWTh 12:00-12:50, Lab Monday 8:00-9:50, 4 credits
This class should give me an intro to some of the medical sciences. Mom and (especially) Dad have been pushing for me to take this one. I think they still sustain hope that I will be a doctor. We'll see.

Honors Econ - TTh 9:00-10:50, 3 credits
This class is a basic course that I think is basic groundwork every college student should have. As my high school econ class was a joke (governomics and politickles), I'm taking this. It will also be exciting because I'll need this class if I decide to go into Polisci or IR.

Honors Organizational Leadership (Honrs 223R) - Wednesday 9:30-11:50, 3 credits I'm taking this class for three reasons: 1) Honors credits so I can graduate with honors, 2) it will be kind of an introduction to business and management, and 3) it looks really cool.

Intro to English Language - TTh 1:35-2:50, 3 credits
This is a prereq to getting an editing minor. It is english with a linguistics flavor to it, and should be interesting.

Honors D&C part 2 - MW 1:00-1:50 (even though I haven't taken part 1...), 2 credits
It was either this or Old Testament at 4. If taking the second part first doesn't work out, I'll just switch in the first two weeks of class. Also, this should work out fairly well because my scripture reading will just be getting to the Doctrine and Covenants by that point in the year....

World Dance - MW 6:00-6:50, 0.5 credits
Exciting? I think so. I went to Kirsi's folk dance performance last week and it looked like a ton of fun. Hopefully it will be :)


I'm also hoping to get into a martial arts class and a tennis class, but we'll see if spots open up in either of those!

Oh, and I'll also be TA for Intro to IR, which is 2:00-2:50 MWF. I may also have office hours, depending on whether I'm an office TA or a research paper TA.



That's next semester's schedule. I'm also starting to look at options for winter semester. I'm interested in going on a study abroad, and my favorite options right now are looking like India and Israel.
What do you think?

<3
Eliza

P.S. Updates about my mini-spring break with the family and the last week of schooling are coming! I'm just a little bit busy, but after Thursday I will have some time to catch up!

Working on next semester's schedule

Hi guys!
Here is my potential schedule for next fall. Hopefully it works out and hopefully this post will work so you can see my file!

I love you lots!
Eliza

On Friday, my roommates and I watched Gone with the Wind. I loved the books, but I'd never seen the movie, which is sad because it's a classic. The acting was amazing, and I really liked it. I highly recommend the book and the movie.

And this also applied to my Sunday school lesson! We talked about how trials can make you better. In Gone with the Wind, the only time that Scarlett is really likeable is when she's going through trials trying to stay alive and keep Tara going. When she has resources she's bratty, selfish, and awful. But when everybody's lives rely on her, she works hard and stubbornly keeps them alive. It makes me wonder if we're all better under pressure, or whether it's just the stubborn ones of us...

Military Mormon jokes

Thursday I went to see General David H. Petraeus, the guy in charge of Central Command (aka the U.S. military in the Middle East), with Amy. He was actually really funny, and he gave ten reasons why BYU students make good solders:

10 — They have already been on many a mission.
9 — Army chow is no problem for folks accustomed to eating green Jell-o and shredded
carrots.
8 — It’s not a problem if they don’t know what rank someone is, they just refer to them
as Brother or Sister so-and-so.
7 — They never go AWOL. They just call it being less active.
6 — They will seize any objective swiftly if you tell them refreshments will be
served.
5 — They know how to make things happen. In fact if you ever need a base built quickly in a
barren wasteland, stride out to where you want them to start, plant your walking stick down
and say in a loud voice, “This is the place.”
4 — They have innovative ideas for handling insurgents — like assigning them home
teachers.
3 — They always have a years’ supply of provisions on hand.
2 — They are the world’s most reliable designated drivers.
1 — They understand how far Iraq has come over the last seven years, and they
think that Iraq’s old spot in the “Axis of Evil” can now be filled by the
University of Utah.

They made me laugh. I hope they make you laugh too!

Love,
Eliza

Whoa, just discovered that JK Rowling wrote out a whole chart of who marries whom and how many kids they have/what they're named. Check it OUT!

Oh, and spiritual thought of the day.

Yellow sunglasses

Nothing really exciting, but I just wanted to show you guys my new sunglasses that I got in Las Vegas!





Also, spiritual thought of the day is here

Now I'm off to study for my chem test and write the research paper for my Islam class.

<3
Eliza

Spiritual thought

Well guys, you may have noticed I'm not doing the weekly monologues anymore. Along with the change of making posts more frequent and shorter, I'm going to start putting links to spiritual thoughts in them. So, the first one is here

<3
Eliza