Merry Christmas!

a few days late...

Christmas is such a great time! I love getting to spend time with my family. And this year was awesome! Both of my brothers and their families came home for Christmas. So I got to spend Christmas with my niece and nephew! They are darling! And to top everything off. It snowed like CRAZY! Which led to a very white Christmas. So white, that my grandmas, who usually come out to my parents for Christmas, couldn't.

For Christmas, I had a hard time making a list for my parents of what I wanted "Santa" to bring me. My list was sad but what Santa brought me wasn't. I got a Wii! I also got money to buy the things I want for my wii, and some wii points so I can buy all the old school games for the wii and a recharging docking station for the controllers. I'm excited, although, I'm not sure how I'm going to play it in my tiny bedroom at school. Oh well! :)

Oh My!!!

I passed the FE! It was the scarest thing of my life. I got this email from NCEES saying the following:

"NCEES has released the results for the October 2008 Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) examinations. Your exam results will be available online until 12:00 a.m. EST, December 22, 2008. To access your results, please log in to your ELSES account and follow the instructions posted. Your exam results will then be e-mailed to you as a pdf attachment. "

And my heart started pounding. Needless to say, I instantly logged on to my ELSES account to get my results. And it tells me that my results will be emailed to me within the next hour. So I'm hoping that maybe I would be lucky and it would come soon. But no. I came back to my computer about every ten minutes to check if I got my email yet or not. And FINALLY, an hour later, I get an email. And all it says is, "Your results are attached."

Now my heart is really pounding because my computer just won't move fast enough to download the two files that are attached. When it finally downloads it won't open very fast either because my computer's just that lame. Well finally it opens. And this is the first thing I see:

YAY!!! It's so exciting! I'm glad I prepared so well for it. Its such a relief to be done! I was so excited, I actually started crying and I couldn't honestly believe what I was seeing. I literally printed it off to make sure I wasn't just seeing things!

Oh man it feels great! I'm an ENGINEER IN TRAINING!!! WOOT!

Too bad I didn't get a recording of me reading my letter. Maybe, if they actually send a paper version, I'll record me opening it! :)

Oh, and to top things off! I got the best grades I've ever gotten at USU so far. A, A, A, A-, B, B!

Updates

Just so everyone kind of knows what's been going on, cause I'm a slacker at this right now. School has been crazy busy! I've been working on reports and preparing for finals! It has been a crazy finals week too because I've only had two finals. I finished one today and it wasn't too bad. We'll see how I did come tomorrow when my grades get posted! But so far, I've gotten three A's! I probably got a B- or a C+ in my economics class but I'm okay with that because economics is the devil! I have one final on Friday! I'm hoping to do well on this final, I've been doing really well in the class so far but this test could either make or break my grade. I've been at an A- since our last test and I'd really like to keep that.

Forget about school, I got in my first, and hopefully only, car accident on Monday! Talk about scary! It wasn't even that big of an accident but it scared the crap out of me! I was upset for hours! Luckily, no one was really hurt. I got whiplash, but it is going away pretty fast. I'm still a little sore today. My car, on the other hand, is in PERFECT! condition. Who would have thought that a car almost older than me could hold up so well!?! They don't make cars like they used to though, because the car behind me cracked their bumper. I got to go to the emergency room too, which is something I haven't done since I was about ten. I got to wear a neck brace and lay on a backboard. Brian took pictures of it for me, so I'll add them on here once I get them! They took x-rays and made sure that I wasn't injured inside. But, they let me go and told me I should be fine, I'll just be sore for a while.

However, on a happier note, I'm going to Kurt Bestor on Saturday! And Friday night, we are going to go see Temple Square and see the lights! I'm excited for that. Seeing Christmas lights is one of my favorite things to do every year! I am way excited for both! And I'm excited to be done with classes so I can read like fifty books over winter break! Just need to figure out what to do for New Years!

Can I just say...

... that I love these pictures! Meg and Ash seriously did an amazing job. I'm going to attach a couple here. These are just a few of my favorites! I haven't even seen the others that they have edited!





I know I still haven't gotten my birthday pictures up but I will.. I promise!

Photo Session

So I haven't had a chance to get my pictures up from my birthday yet. But Ash and Meg have gotten my pictures up from the photo shoot I had with them yesterday! I pretty much think they rock! I'm linking their blogs.. or you can just click on their links on the side. Feel free to comment on their pictures if you want.

I had so much fun! They rocked seriously!

I'm FREE!!!!

So on Saturday, I took the lovely 8 hour test, which ended up only taking 7.5. It was really funny to see all the engineering students lined up in the engineering building at 7:15 in the morning with their clear plastic bags that we all brought in. You would think I was totally freaked out when I went in there but it was actually kind of calming. Like I was just ready to be finished. Quite nice I must admit.
And the first four hours flew by! I had plenty of time to finish everything but man those hours went by fast. The second four hours weren't as nice. I did get finished early though so I left. But sitting in those rollie chairs they have down in engineering 101 really aren't that comfortable after 6 hours. And the best part, I feel good about it! I really don't think there's anything I could have done better. I answered everything I knew how to do and guessed as well as I could on the ones I didn't. I guess we'll see the results come end of December.

Engineering Rocks My Socks Off

Tomorrow is the day....
The day of reckoning...
I'm selling my soul...
To the Engineering World...
Tomorrow I start an 8 hour test... it might as well be 50 hours.
I am going to ace (so Mandy says)

I have to be at the engineering building by 7:15, and we begin the test at 7:40. There are 120 questions in the first 4 hours and 60 more questions in the second 4 hours. I think I get an hour to an hour and a half lunch break. I should be done around 5:30... ish... so by that time my brain will be fried! Yay for engineering!