Fitting In

Hello friends!!  I hope you are having an amazing time on each of your individual journeys and I hope God continues to bring you peace in whatever hardship you may face.  But now let me tell you why I am really writing this.  My first few weeks of college were rough; I will not go into detail about what happened, but lets just say it was not what I imagined my first few weeks would be.  Sure, I met a ton of new people and handled not gaining the traditional "freshman 15", but in the end after walking up a huge hill and rolling down the other side in despair, I realized that it was all part of God's magnificent plan for me.  Now that those weeks are behind me, I am starting to see Warrensburg, Missouri for the town it really is.  UCM is not a "college town", we are a community.  The people here are 100% willing to help you out and the professors are phenomenal.  UCM is truly a place where the professors are committed to their students.  Also, THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE!  GET INVOLVED!  In the past 2 weeks, I have started to go to club meetings, eating with friends, and found a church home that has honestly been the best part of my year so far.  But enough about school...lets talk about something else.  And yet, I can't think of anything else.  Nor do I have pictures to upload of my favorite obsessions.  Yet, I guess based on my last post, I will personally review iOS 7.  Lets just say, I really like it, the graphics and new interface are great, but still I just do not like iTunes Radio--I MEAN COME ON YOU ARE KILLING PANDORA!  However, I want to hear from you guys if since upgrading, you have seen your battery decrease on any Apple product.  I know i have on my iPad, so its either my system upgrade or I just get on Facebook and Twitter too much.  But, definitely, iOS 7 is a lot easier to use and the ways to close out apps, ask questions to Siri, and use the search bar are a world of better since iOS 6.  Lastly, as I transition here, I want to hear feedback from YOU my READERS!  I am so happy to have readers--I never thought it would happen.  I thought I would be that girl with the lonely blog.  So as a result, I ask you to come up with my next few topics to talk about.  It just has to be appropriate.  Please, please, please, reply to my Facebook blog posts and suggest away!  And I leave you with this as I go to my last class of the day- As I sit here in the library looking out into God's great creation, I ask myself what can I do to not only change the people and places around me, but the world as well?  We all have so many dreams, whether its to join the Peace Corps or travel to China to work with special needs orphans.  Or if your #1 thing on your bucket list is to do a TED talk, GO FOR IT!  I am here to encourage all of you, so do what makes you happy and change the world, because soon enough it will all be worth it.  And if you are going through struggles and are living in the deep, dark hole of pain and depression-remember there is a way to get out of it.  I trust that God has a plan for all of you and it is going to be placed on you in a thousand different ways, it may just not be your time yet.  So keep smiling and I will be back in a few days!!  Until then, its the SEASON 10 PREMIERE OF GREY'S ANATOMY TONIGHT SO WATCH GREY'S FANS AND LAUGH, CRY, AND DO A 30 SECOND DANCE PARTY WITH ME AND A MILLION OTHERS TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love to you all!!
-H :)    

Prioritizin!!

Hey folks!  Sorry its been a few days since my last post-been busy around here, staying up late, studying for tests, sleeping, eating, and cleaning.  Thats life in college.  Fitting to the title of this post- based on my last week of buisiness I have learned to better prioritize myself and what I need to do so that way I can be more successful.  So actually I should be reading articles right now out of my Sociology book and answering follow up questions instead of writing this but I wanted to update all of you on my latest adventures.  Like most of the world yesterday I too downloaded iOS 7.  And I think it is pretty dang great!!  The newly changed interface gives the Apple products a zing in their step.  It makes them brighter and friendlier!! Also all the new finger movements make it incredibly simple to change music, close out apps (which one should always do--it helps to save battery life), and to check your notification bar and search.  Having everything in my notification bar is nice too.  It allows you to see your calendar, weather, social media notifications, and texts.  Lastly, the only thing I worry is about iTunes Radio...personally I prefer Pandora.  But I think with the update of iTunes Radio, Pandora will slump.  But iTunes Radio still only lets you skip a certain number of songs, but has no ads.  So pros and cons.  But I do suggest that if you have not upgraded- DO SO!  But PLEASE BACK UP YOUR APPLE DEVICE BEFORE YOU DO!!  That way you do not lose anything important!  Back to college- Parents Weekend is this weekend and I am so excited to see my dad after being back here for 3 weeks!  Trust me future college students, you will call your parents every day because you will geniunely miss them.  Its a fact!!  But I have discovered a little more about Warrensburg so I am excited to show my dad around town.  And HAVE FUN MA!  Plus I joined my Christian Campus House and I LOVE IT!  I have also joined a small group Bible study and LOVE the girls in my group!!  Joining it was one of the best things I have done!!  Also, the best part has been meeting more people and not having to eat by myself!!  Today was good, the best thing was getting a surprise care package from my brother and sister in law!!  Thanks again Ben and Melissa!  Also I wanna give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to my other brother Joe Wright as he completes his THIRD IronMan this weekend!!  Good luck big bro-you will do amazeballs!!  I am so happy for you!!  MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!  (Hunger Games Reference!)  Well goodnight all, may your dreams be sweet and don't forget to eat breakfast--its the most important meal of the day!! 

Love to you all <3
-H :)

Life So Far

Hello again!  Its been a few days and so I wanted to update everyone on everything and anything.  Since I last spoke, I have filled out some forms for international special needs orphanages trips.  I have also had the chance to go back and visit Delta Zeta, to see if I can get a "continous open bid."  I go to these events because I did not get a bid for a sorority when I went through formal recruitment and so the hope is I get an open spot bid because I really want to join a sorority!!  But I have also grown during this time as well.  I have realized that a sorority is just a sorority, not being in one does not ruin your college experience, it helps you to get involved in other stuff on campus.  For example, I have gone to Campus Christian House for worship on Sunday and I have also joined a small bible study group and I had my first meeting last night!  I loved it, the girls are so nice and such good people!  I have also joined in on Central Society for Child and Family Development majors and I have also joined CHAMP which is for students interested in the field of Child Life.  So as you high schoolers can see, there is MUCH MORE than Greek Life!  Get involved in everything you can or else you'll be staring at the wall in your dorm room all year!  Its gotten a little better here, and I feel like I have so many new friends!  Soon I hope to post some pictures of my favorite products and talk to you guys about them! 

Believe in Yourself, and Your Dreams Will Come True,
-H :)

Hey everyone!!  Sorry its been so long since my last post!!  Things have been crazy busy around here!  First off, I hope everyone is having a great school year so far!  These last three weeks have been super rough for me, but I am so happy to hopefully be getting them behind me.  Homework is cray cray in college, I especially don't like BlackBoard.  I like being able to get paper assignments and hand them in the next day.  In college you have so many long term assignments!! But its nicer because you get 10x more sleep then you did in high school.  Socially, I've joined my Christian Navigators group here at UCM and in Collegiate Choir we are preparing for our concert already at the end of this month!!  We had our "choral retreat" this weekend, and it helped us to further memorize our music.  Did laundry today too and have hung out with people.  The big thing was that I went to my first football game this week!!  It was alright, we lost in the last like 30 seconds, but our school definetely needs to pump up the spirit!  The bad part was I had no clue what was going on, so my dad will have to explain the game to me on parents weekend.  I would much rather watch the STL CARDINALS play.  I had an amazing time on Labor Day and I loved being able to go home!!!  Luckily, my brother comes in town for dinner with me Friday so I'm so excited!!  Thats pretty much it...college life I suppose.  Homework, eat, sleep,class, homework, eat, sleep.  Oh and somehow have a social life too... :p

Byeeee
-H :)