The First two weeks

Hello Everyone!

I'm happy to say that my first two weeks of school have been GREAT! I have been a little busy, since my schedule is a fuller than last semester. But I'm enjoying it. Getting back into the daily commotion of school took a few days of hard work, but I'm back in business. I'm doing so much better managing my time and getting my work done. I have some exciting projects this semester, one being a small documentary for my women in popular culture class. I'm pretty excited about it. My other classes are great but I have chemistry this semester, and WOW, I know that I'm going to have a hard time with it. I'm doing fine now but as we get further and further into the book I'm going to need a tutor or something.

Oh yea, I did find that article about becoming a doctor. Its pretty cool and the website which is "HowStuffWorks.com" has a lot of cool articles too.

You know one thing that amazes me, is the amount of homework each individual teacher gives out, KNOWING that the average student is taking at least three other classes. I know that this is just what you have to go through to get through college, but maaannnn. lol. I have a final project/research paper in all of my classes this semester. Its alot, but I love doing research papers. My only problem are the papers you have to write on your own topic. That seems like the easiest thing ever, but it is not. I sat and stared at my screen for a good ten minutes just to write a summary on three topics I want to write about. My mind went completely blank. But I pulled through and thought of three cool topics: The psychology of happiness, Beautification of the body, and Culture. I think those are pretty broad subjects that will have enough information to write a whole paper.

Well, there's my update for the first few weeks of school, I hope everyone is enjoying spring semester as much as I am. And I hope everyone has fun with all their wonderful research papers :-).

Happy New Years!

Hi everyone!

First off, I would like to say Happy New Years to everyone! Then, I would like to apologize for the delay between blogs. Life is a little hectic for me. But, I hope everyone is enjoying their break and is ready for the new semester. I know I am. Last semester I was so eager for break, and now I'm eager to go back to school. For some reason being at home for a month was a little tiring and boring. I didn't do much, and I didn't have anything challenging me. Even though I utterly HATE staying up, cramming and studying, I kinda missed the rush.

So, For this new year, and new semester I made myself some resolutions. Hopefully I'm not setting myself up for failure. I think I can handle all of them.

1) Stop being lazy (I'm HORRIBLE when it comes to being lazy, literally if I do not want to do something..I will not do it no matter how important it is, and that I realized does not work while in college)

2) Get a 3.0 or 3.5 this semester. Last semester I had a few bumps and bruises. I can and can't blame myself. It was my fault, but I feel like if I wouldn't have gotten the understanding of how things need to be done, if I didn't mess up a little. So I'm going to (keyword: GOING) to bring my 2.5 up.

3) Be more organized and learn how to say no. I don't know how to say no to my friends. So last semester I would have to work, and study and all the above, but never failed that the moment they asked me to go out to eat with them, or hang out during the weekend I would make time for that. Instead of making time for school and work.

Those are my three main resolutions. I think everything will fall into place if I get those three things together. I'm so excited that school is in a week! I know there's going to be a lot of work, and there will be nights I will be on the brink of tears because I just want to sleep. But I know its all worth it. And its a challenge, and i mean who isn't up for a challenge?

I also did a lot of research and thinking and planning, as far as my career goes. I decided to apply to the nursing school (which I think can be done in March), and I believe I mentioned before that I would still minor in psychology. Bad news, I can't minor in psychology. I spoke to someone at the school (sorry I don't remember who) but they informed me that nursing students here at Ursuline, cannot minor, because the nursing workload is too much. Ouch! I wanted to cry. Not because I couldn't minor, but because it made me realize what I would have to go through.

I also found an old packet I printed off the Internet, many many years ago (I want to say, my freshman year in high school, or maybe even 8th grade) Which explained the whole process of becoming a doctor. And wow, it was not a pretty thing to read. But I know at the end of all of my hard work I will be proud of myself, and that school will be one of my biggest and most fulfilling accomplishments. So its worth it. I may be able to find an updated version of the article, and If I do I will gladly post it.

I also read this interesting article on MSN, I thought I would share with you guys. Its called The Falling-Down Professions . It talks about how Law and Medicine are loosing its allure, which I thought was interesting.

Well, This is the end of my post, I will update you guys on how my first week of school is going next week, and I hope everyone had a great break and that they do well this semester!

Stress

So I know I've been a horrible blogger and have left my wonderful readers hanging for about a month. I am soooooo sorry about that. I've been extremely busy these days. So, anyway. Life at school is great. I've been up to date with my homework and everything, its a wonderful feeling to go to school in the morning knowing that I don't have an assignment I need to rush and do. Its kinda weird, I start to feel a tad bit bored. But, its good it gives me more time to do everything else.

I hate having a hundred and one things going on in my life. Even though my experience here at school is wonderful, life doesn't want to pause and let you stay in your "school world". It carries on. Its hard sometimes trying to strike a balance between life and school. I mean we all learn how to handle it going to school all our life's. But its always hard to strike that balance. I mean we spend almost everyday at school, have whole "life's" and responsibilities there and then you leave and go home and have to deal with your home life. Its been clashing for me recently. My friend just got married yesterday, and I still haven't recovered completely. Her wedding was my Thanksgiving break, lol. So now its the weekend and I'm exhausted. And stressed. For some odd reason it amazes when other people realize that your stressed. The other day my mom asked me"Are you OK? are you tired or something?" and I answered her confused like "ummmmm no I'm not tired I'm fine" and then she says "oh, are you sure? you looked like that yesterday when I picked you up". I was thinking to myself, "Wow, it must be bad if other people realize it". But I hate it because I'm not myself when I'm stressed. But hey its life right?

So its almost time for FINALS!!! I'm not really looking forward to that, but I am because that means winter break. God, I think we all need it. I'm sorry guys this entry is going to be a little short. But I hope you guys enjoyed it. You should get another one in about a week, and I promise it will be great!

That beautiful thing called time

I was just randomly laying down thinking the other day, when I realized that the end of the month had come. And I thought to myself, "wow, guess its time for another blog!" Time is going by so fast its amazing. These past few months have been so eventful that I forget a lot of what has happened and what I need to do. The past few weeks since my first post I've been trying to get my schedule and time management together. Its funny because as soon as I think (and keyword...think) I have myself stable, organized and under control , then everything decides to go everywhere, my homework ends up being done at 2am and it all just becomes a shuffled mess. And then I think to myself, "this is only the beginning!". But I'll make it.

I've been struggling to get my schedule together. I swear it seems like there aren't enough hours in the day. I go to school, I do work-study, I come home, I WANT to sleep, I do homework, I sleep and I wake up in the morning exhausted. In the back of my mind I have the little voice telling me "All of this is for a bigger good, and in the end you'll be happy". So I guess that's what pushes me every morning to wake up, look at the blurry alarm clock that says 7:00am, actually get out of the bed to realize that the clock I thought said 7:00 actually says 7:30 and leave my house dreary eyed ready to talk, learn, and be happy for another full day.

But, onto better and more exciting things, I made up my mind about my major, I'm going to major in Nursing, and minor in psychology. And thanks so much to my psychology professor Rachel Cain and her husband. Ironically she stumbled across my blog and told her husband about my dilemma and he gave me a little piece of advice, which was much appreciated. Its funny because the moment I told my mother I wanted to change my major she goes; "Tahiyya, please don't be one of those "professional students" who waste money going to school all their lives and don't know what they want to do, they just go to school with no purpose" I thought that was quite funny, seems how I actually know a few people like that. I honestly think people shouldn't start college without having some sort of idea as to what they want to do. But, that's just my opinion.

Oh yea, before I end this I thought I might share a link with you all. My sociology teacher posted this on her announcements on educator. I thought it was a good article and thought people would be interested in looking at it!

"The (Non-Monetary) Value of a College Degree"

Well, that's all for October! Hope everyone had a great month, and I hope you enjoyed my new post!

The new blog!

Welcome to my blog, My name is Tahiyya, you may have seen me walking around Ursuline, the only girl with a scarf! lol. I'm muslim, and I was raised in Cleveland just about 30 minutes from Ursuline. I grew up in a pretty big household, which made me not want children (but ironically I want to be a pediatrician or a child psychologist). I'm a freshman here at Ursuline, majoring in Psychology. I was Homeschooled through middle school and high school so I had to get used to waking up every morning and leaving the house. I would look at my clock like " ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!" I have to LEAVE and sit in a CLASS. But, I'm greatful I've been having such a great time so far, and the people are so wonderful.

I splashed cold water on my face this morning then looked up into the mirror in front of me. Wow man, thats a reflection of ME. It feels weird to reflect my whole life in 5 seconds of looking at myself in the mirror, but I'm happy. I'm happy about where I am today and what I've achieved so far. There were a few rough patches, but ultimatly I made it. I'm here. I'm a young adult and in college now. Tahiyya man, your in college I thought to myself....

In college, aspiring to be a doctor or psychologist - who knows? I'm a little confused, and its so funny to me because I was so sure of what I wanted to do just two years ago. Even when I applied for Ursuline, I gave myself two choices, nursing or psychology (with a minor in biology). Well, psychology came easy, and it sounds good and interesting so I stuck with that. But now I'm only about halfway into the semester and I realize, wow, do I REALLY want to major in psychology? I mean it is interesting and it is fun to learn about. But, I think that a degree in nursing will get me more money, and I would have a better chance at getting into medical school. So I've been second guessing my major alot recently. But ultimatly whatever I major in I'll be happy, because there are so many people who don't make it to this point in their life, and for me to do this at a young age is a great blessing. My mother started college and never finished, my step-father did the same, and my grandmother and uncle are the only people in my close family who finished college. So, I'm even more determined to finish.

I think also, the experience that I've had so far at this school will nurture me for the hard, long four years I have ahead of me. Everyone here is so nice and supportive. I mean really, I havn't gotten a frown, everyone always asks me if I need help, If theres anything they can do, and they sincerely and truly mean it. The teachers won't even give you the opportunity to get a C. They push you so hard and work with you so personally. I'm really greatful of that, because I think that I need that type of support through school.

With everything said, I hope you guys enjoyed reading my blog, this is my first one, and I'm soooo lost, lol. Really, I'm like well "Am I supposed to write it like thiiiiss? or like thaaaat?", but I think it will be fine. I hope everyone enjoys it!