week 2: Taking on more than I should?

      My life has started to change in the past few months much faster than I ever intended for it to. I have realized that when you decide to share your life with someone that also means you are sharing your life with all the other people who are apart of that person's life as well. I have recently found out that I will be moving to Clearwater, Florida as soon as I graduate which will be in March, 2012. I have also decided that I did not want to wait very long to join my new family in the sunshine state so I took on the task of taking 21 credit hours for the next three quarters and work around 18 hours a week. While this seemed like a good idea in the beginning I have began to ask myself, "What was I thinking?" I have a standard that I hold myself to when it comes to school and my grades...keeping that standard with 21 credit hours may be harder than I thought. I am totally committed to accomplishing my goal because I do not want my family in another state without me for very long. I have also been researching ways to help with stress and how to find time for myself, time for me to relax. I have also started to wonder if my brain can every reach a point where it is too full. I know that may sound silly to some people but it seems that every week I shove so much stuff in there I am bound to forget some of it. I really want to learn from my classes not just retain information long enough to get an A on the test. I have been researching ways to increase my brain power and how to retain information longer. This is an article that caught my attention:  http://www.mindpowernews.com/BrainPower.htm - 70 Ways to Increase Your Brain Power

Week 1: First Impressions

      For most of my life I have felt like I spent a lot of my time trying to fit in with other people. It seemed to go that way for me all through high school, at Indiana University, and at Ivy Tech. I have always wondered where I belong and what I will end up doing with the rest of my life. The Art Institute has finally been able to help me answer those questions. 

     I remember coming here to visit and loving how this place felt when I walked through the doors. I have always been more artsy than other people around me but by being here I feel we all understand each other on some different level. I love that I can walk around this place and see people dressed like me while seeing others who are dressed in I do not even know what. I love the freedom I feel hear to express myself the way that I want to and that I am encouraged to do so. I have always hated the fact that I had to take certain classes throughout my life that I know I will never use and learn things that have no bearing on my life. From the first general education class I took at the Art Institute I knew it was going to be different. The professors understand what it was that I wanted out of my life and they knew how to get me there. It was not through needless equations and pointless research papers. It was all about what I was passionate about and to make sure I stayed that way. I will always be in debt to the people here because I all ready know that without them I would have never found what  I love.