I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend! I don't know about you; but it seemed like the longest weekend of the year...don't ask why?! Anyways, I am "fixin' to" (sorry, had to bring out the stereotypical Texan accent....Did you know that we also all wear Cowboy Hats?! It's crazy! ) go downstairs to meet up with some friends for lunch and I thought I would share with you what will most likely be going through my mind as I make a selection from the "vast variety"...

The first thing...

Overwhelmed! That is how I feel right about now. I have officially been to all of my classes (Except Chem Lab) for the first day of the semester and the stress & LOAD of work that each entails is just now coming back to me (I tried to forget about it over the summer!).

First and foremost, you need to make sure that your bill has been paid for, whether by scholarships, loans or straight up cash/check. And if you have loans, you need to contact lenders, your school and 10 other...

The first day of school seems to have changed so much since the olden days of elementary school. I remember being so excited for school to start because it meant that I would get to color with my friends and play on that awesome slide at recess. My mom would take me shopping a week before school started to buy a new lunch box and a Lisa Frank folder and then I would return home even more excited than before!

Not much changed during middle/high school. Sure, I graduated from the Lisa...

Before leaving for school, my dad decided to run a virus scan on my laptop...in the rush of things, we forgot to back up my files! Therefore, when my computer froze and we worked with restarting it and trying to restore it for 3 hours, the only option left was to restore it to factory settings and hope that at least THAT would work. Well, it worked all right; but I also lost everything that...

"Tips, Tricks & Experiences from a Flourishing College Girl"...today I'm going to share a "Tip" with you from of those "Experiences"...PACKING!

As soon as I sign off, I am going to head up to my room (which has turned into a tornado disaster site since I started packing yesterday). I have been trying to figure out what to pack, what to leave & how I'm going to fit it all in my room! It's like trying to figure out one of those Diabolical level sudoku puzzles...haha!
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