Organization

So I have been flipping through the electronic world pretty much ridiculously these past few days, why you ask? Well in addition to trying to figure out the world and all its problems, I've been looking at organizing things.


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When I went to college for the first time last year, I was pretty awful at organization. I mean it was organized chaos in my room but that was about as far as it went. I've always been good about keeping my school things organized so when I started last year I wanted to be well put together, and I managed for a while.

Second semester really had me hitting my schedule with precision and getting everything done that I wanted, however I want to come back this year even better. From scheduling, to looking at what I want to do with my closet, and how I want to set up my single dorm it all needs to be organized. I want to rock this semester hard pull my GPA up a bit and do all those college-y things.

Beginning my quest had me looking at Pinterest and going from there, it however is a place that suck your soul and time away, so while I enjoyed looking there I really loved going through all these blogs that have great ideas. I'm not taking quite as much to college this year... I may or may not have been a little to over-prepared last year, and I'm cleaning out my closet before I go. Those two things alone should help me get settled in better.

How do you guys get ready for the new school year? Is organization just as important or are there other things that take precedence?

Starting School

School.

It's coming, and if you're going to school at University of Wyoming, soon. The official first day for classes is the 26th of August, but if you're moving into the Dorms you can come the 22nd. Literally only a month away before we will be back. I for one am extremely excited. However, being an upperclassmen is wonderful, nothing like last year when I was excited but so unprepared. I didn't know the first thing about being ready for school, or anything else. 

So for those I recommend five extremely important things:

1) Get involved. Honestly, it is the best thing you can do.

I didn't, my best friends Rushed Greek without me, and now after realizing what I did wrong I am Rushing this fall. When about halfway through first semester I started to get lonely and miss my sports teams from high school, freak out over classes, and get frustrated at my dorm mates, my friends had sisters to bond with, go places with, and get advice from. I ended up being great friends with girls from Greek Life and that was just from meeting them in class. It doesn't really matter what you're doing as long as it's something you love. Greek, intramural, and other groups are great.

2) Do the Homework.

This is the first time you don't have parents over your shoulder and a lot of the time, you don't have to turn in the homework. However, if you don't end up reading the chapters they tell you to, come test time you are going to realize how behind you are.

3) Go to Office Hours

Just go meet your professor. I read all about that and I heard everything I needed to know that it was the best idea for someone. However, I didn't go. And to prove that it really does help, when I did end up going I understood everything so much better, my chem teacher? ya I didn't get anything in his class until we were one-on-one. It is scary, but if I'd been going from the beginning instead of from midterms, I might have actually passed the class.  Now, technically a is passing, but you need a C to move on, so in reality it really isn't.

4) Leave your dorm door open.

It sounds silly, but everyone in my dorm did. We all became really close, with closeness came some drama but with 40 girls and 40 boys living on one floor that is bound to happen at least a little bit. I had friends in other dorms that didn't know the girls living next door, and it was eerie to go to their halls after my loud boisterous floor. Over time they eventually got to know each other, but not in the way my floor did. We had girls nights and went out to dinner together. We all just wanted friends and wanted to fit in,  I may not end up being best buds with all of them forever, but now that they are in apartments and we aren't living together I know that if I need something I can just call.

5) Read The Freshmen 50 by Carly Heitlinger

I was looking through my Pinterest board and found Carly's blog, The College Prepster.
I then proceeded to find the book and buy it and read it. It includeds litterally everything I went through, how I felt and what I wished I'd done. She puts everything perfectly. I really can't recommend a better thing to do than to read it. There are tips I'm going to take from her to help with this next year of school. I am making plans and getting ready to go back, I'm ready to get the most out of college and put myself out there. This is my time and now that my feet are wet I can't wait to jump in wholeheartedly.

If you want to go to Carly's website here is the link: http://www.thecollegeprepster.com/

Hope your first year goes great!!

-WyoBelle

Shakespeare Weekend

Had a lovely time this weekend! Ended up going down to the Utah Shakespeare Festival, which is absolutely brilliant. I've been going since I was little and comparing them to some Broadway's I've seen they really hold up to snuff. I was able to see King John (wonderful, and very interesting I wish it was done more), the Tempest (great designs and a new take on the original), Anything Goes (sooo funny and cute), and Love Labors Lost (adorable). They hold literary seminars, costume/actor/set seminars, and a Guild lunch with the Actors. All of this is wrapped up in the adorable little town, well maybe not so little, of Cedar City. It is home to Southern Utah University and a great second hand bookstore. Also we went to the Garden House for lunch and had some amazing food.

Overall I'd say it was a great trip I loved the entire thing, the food in concessions is great with its 'Ye Olde' feel to it. Before the evening performances they have a free Greenshow outside the recreated Globe theater, its great to bring younger kids too but has plenty of adult humor as well. All the actors are amazing and most of them are in at least two if not three of the plays going on. The Elizabethan language isn't difficult at all because the actors really know how to sell it.

The star show this year is Peter and the Starcatcher which the USF has the first regional production rights, in other words this is the first showing off of Broadway. They were even visited by the original producers and creators. I think all of the shows are great though and would recommend seeing any of them. Starting last year, the festival is dedicated to going through all of Shakespeare's 38 plays through out the next ten years. They started this summer going through the histories in order. They also have the 2014 plays announced. I hope I get to go back soon!

Here is a picture from their site, hopefully it links to the site otherwise here is their website!!
www.bard.org

That picture is property of the Utah Shakespeare Festival and not mine, I am using it so help with my review.


Yours,
WyoBelle

Weekend and Exciting Nerdy News!

Can't wait for Sherlock to come out... thought that I'd try and add the countdown widget here :D
Anyway, I had a lovely weekend. Went to a cousin's graduation party, and then went to visit my mom in Salt Lake with an old friend. We went out and had some retail therapy, new clothes, new shoes, and new books can make a nerdy girl verrry happy! Now its off to work today, but I found out that the third season of Sherlock on BBC is coming out on Oct. 31, 2013. I love Sherlock, I waited and waited and finally had to give in to watching Sherlock and now I'm pushing it on whoever I'm talking to. Its like me and Doctor Who but worse, which I wasn't sure was possible. However, growing up reading Harry Potter has lead me to love anything nerdy. Speaking of the amazing world that J.K.Rowling made, it is has been two years since the last movie came out and the Harry Potter fandom is still going strong. I saw a post on Tumblr earlier that mentioned how they had just seen that there were special mini movies being made for the Harry Potter parks, the person then told the HP fandom to awaken, I corrected them... as a matter of fact here it is,

lumos5000:

WHAT!!! HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS!!! HARRY POTTER FANDOM AWAKEN!!!

We never slept… we were just enjoying the hard won peace after the Wizarding War.

Other than my almost appalling amount of time spent on various social media websites I haven't been up to much. My time on Pinterest however has given me great ideas for when I go back to college this fall. I am going to be rushing, which admittedly I should have done last year but somethings you must learn for yourself, and so I have a board for crafts and soroitity things going on and I have a college organization board.  It makes me want to be back in Laramie, but for now I'm going to finish out the next three weeks of my internship. This week is going to be a short week however, because I am going to be travelling down to Cedar City with my mom to watch some plays at the Shakespeare festival!! I am so excited and this year they are doing King John which isn't a very commonly portrayed play so I am very excited. Alright I actually need to get work done today so I will write more later!! 

Loves

WyoBelle

Getting Started

Hey there,

I'm just starting up now, I've been toying with the idea of having a blog, at least a different blog than one I set up in middle school. Just being able to get my words out and talking, even if it is to myself for the moment that's okay with me!

I will be starting my second year at the University of Wyoming and I want to keep a record of it. I was never much for writing in Diary's when I was younger, but these times need to be remembered and recorded. I realized this when I was on Pinterest earlier, I have to admit it has become my all to unhealthy addiciton, I followed a pin I had pinned to look at later. It lead me to www.collegeprepster.com an amazing place if I do say so myself. After looking through her blog it made me realize that this would be the perfect place to start. As it seemed this is where Carly did as well.

I'll be getting on again later, for now I'm just going to go play around with the site!

Tootles,

WyoBelle