Classes!

I keep saying I'm going to tell about actual school....and I figured now that the semester's practically over would be a good time (:
Besides that, I'm sitting in the airport about to go HOMEEEE...but I have to wait another two-ish hours :)
So here we goooo :)


I'm taking 6 classes at a total of 16 credits this semester.  Let me walk you through my schedule...

MONDAY/WEDNESDAY/FRIDAY :)))

I roll out of bed at 9:20, throw on a jacket and join Janel, Lydia, and Shelby for breakfast.  Seeing as I get more tired every morning, Shelby normally comes and knocks on my door, loudly I might add, and wakes me up.  Afterwards, I come back to the dorms until 10:45, when I leave for my first class.
MUSIC 101 :))
This is probably my favorite class, because it is very low key. It's held in the Madison Recital Hall so it's a huge class. Katie Schurtz saves me a seat everyday. :)
BIO 100 :P
From then, I walk across campus and down four flights of steep stairs to the RB for Bio.  I have that class with Whitney. I hate the subject but it's actually a fun class because our professor is crazy!
WRTG 150
I walk right back up those 4 flights of stairs (ughh!) to Writing. I love writing, because it's my only small class and I know everyone in there.

After class I meet Shelby for a "quick" lunch in the Cannon before going back to "study" before my favorite class.

MUSIC 117 aka GUITARRR!
Bro. Green is legit and plain cool, besides being an awesome guitarist! Alyssa Adair is in my class and it's soooo cool to have like 60 kids playing guitar in one room! I only have guitar on M/W which is too bad but my day ends 5 p.m.

TUESDAY/THURSDAY :)))

HISTORY 201
I have my favorite hard class at 9:30 that goes until 10:45.  My professor is awesome. It's complete lecture, not like copy down the power point slides--copy down every word he says! We always have these awesome political discussions that somehow always relate to the Church as well!

After that I go straight to Devotional or back to my dorm.
Whitney and I always go to lunch together and afterwards, I have my last class.

RELIGION 121
Book of Mormon with Brother Griffin. So spiritual, so uplifting, so enlightening.  My friend from my ward Jared and I sit together and it's the best class ever.

Well, those are my classes...and they are great (:


♥♥♥I love BYU♥♥♥

Lessons Learned

I think the Carrie Underwood song is appropriate song of my life for the past week or so.
Not only do I love her as a country music artist, but her lyrics really ring true to my heart this week.
"And every tear that had to fall from my eyes Everyday I wondered how I'd get through the night, Every change, life has thrown me...Some pages turned Some bridges burned
But there were lessons learned."

I learned A LOT today. Not only about myself but about life, politics, history, science, and most importantly...BYU.

I'm convinced this is the best college EVER and I know for a fact that it's where I'm suppose to be, where I fit in, and that is a great feeling.

Take today for instance. In my history 201 class, we've been talking about how climate affected ancient civilizations.  We talked about how climate is continuing to change like it did in the Medieval Era. I was struck by the book we read, and how he talked that my generation and my children's generation are going to suffer we don't do anything. I had one of those "I'm gonna change the world!" feelings when I left, which aren't very practical. Still, I was kind of affected by the class and kept thinking about it.

Then, Whitney and I decided to go to this lecture for extra credit for Bio. I know, gross. But I need it....haha. So I went with the attitude of this is going to be REALLY boring.

Surprise!!!! It was the COOLEST thing ever! The lead scientist in conservation, Dr. M. Sanjayan came and spoke. He talked about almost the same thing that we discussed in History class. His main point was that conservation could play a big role in providing a helping hand because nature has value.  However, at the end, he said this--"There are seven billion people on the planet, and for the most part, life is good. However, this good life is coming at a big cost, which your generation and your children's generation will have to pay to see the best in life."

WOW. Again, I was sitting there thinking, I need to go tell the world that we need to change or I'm gonna have to pay!!!

Just my own opinions of course (it's my blog right??? haha) and tonight, I'm sitting here doing the same thing as every other night, Facebooking, blogging, listening to music and having a good time with friends, so obviously I wasn't thaaat effected. 

But I learned of these awesome lectures that BYU has ALL the time! I have a new goal to go to more lectures, just because!

So then....I learned something about the HFAC....they have SUPER COOL CONCERTS!

I have to go to a total of 11 concerts for my two music classes....yummy. So I saw that there was a Folk Music Ensemble concert tonight that would count for my guitar class.

Best. Spontaneous. Decision. Ever.

The concert was soooo legit, like a mix of international/folk/country music and it was so neat! Half the songs were originals and the lead vocalists for the last two bands was the same girl and she was AMAZING. I had serious chills.

So, new goal? Go to more concerts, even if they don't count for a grade!

BYU is sooo cool, there is always something going on, and I love life this week (and especially today :).

Goodnight world! :)

An EXTRA SPECIAL Devotional

Yesterday, I was sitting in my dorm room a little longer than normal because my 11 AM class was canceled.  At around 11:20, everyone in our hall started screaming in the hallway.  Whitney went out and ran back in the room screaming,
"PRESIDENT MONSON IS SPEAKING AT THE DEVOTIONAL TOMORROW."

Man, just typing that gives me chills.

President Monson is the latter-day prophet of our church. For him to come to BYU to speak is a HUGE deal.
I didn't see them nor did I get pictures...but apparently kids brought out tents and slept overnight outside the Mariott Center (the basketball stadium where we have these campus wide devotionals).  Kids I know went and stood out in the RAIN for four hours this morning to get a seat up close.
Sadly, I have class in the morning up to devotional time so my friends Janel and Jonathon went as early as they could to get us seats and we were in the top corner of the stadium! Craziness!

My history professor was hilarious this morning in class.  He's quite the sarcastic guy and yesterday in our class's Facebook page (weird how useful technology is!) a freshman girl posted that he should cancel class tomorrow because no one would want to go to class because we'd be late to devotional (class ends at 10:45, devotionals start across campus at 11:05) and most likely not get a seat. So at like 10:20 during class, Prof. Dursteler goes "Rumor has it that some of you are worried about getting to devotional...and apparently this one is pretty important...I mean I don't think the Prophet of God is more important than my class and we all know what he's going to say!" The class muttered "Get married!" He goes, "Well....that's not what I was thinking...but I guess marriage is more important than my class, get out of here!"

I decided to walk with my Sunday Playlist on my iPod to set the tone. I'm sooo glad I did. I arrived with tons of time to spare but the Mariott Center was already PACKED. Students had started sitting behind the podium because everywhere else was full!

A shot of the Marriot Center,
posted on BYU's Facebook Page

When Pres. Monson walked in, we all stood up and a hush fell over us. The Spirit was instantly strong and I had chills. He is quite the character and waved at us all to sit down, laughing to himself. M. Russel Nelson and his daughter also accompanied him.
And of course, when he stood up, what was the first thing he talked about? Marriage!!! He set off with a funny story about giving devotionals and how one girl thought he wasn't married because he can no longer where rings!
His message was on being an example to the believers, which here at BYU is interesting, as majority of us are obviously members. However, reflecting back on his words, I think his message is powerful and needed throughout the church today. He told of a missionary who needed surgery while on his mission in Canada and was sharing a room with 5 other men.  On the morning of this missionary's surgery, all 5 roommates refused breakfast, explaining to the nurse that this missionary had taught them of God and the gospel of Christ, and they were fasting for his surgery to go well.  The doctor explained as well that he would not cost him a fee because "someone on high" had performed the surgery.

He concluded with a quote from the Lion King, saying "Look inside yourself. You are more than what you've become." "Remember that you are a son and daughter of God."
It was by far the best devotional of the year and it was so neat to be in the same room as the prophet of God. During the closing prayer, I received a witness of the Holy Ghost that Thomas S. Monson is the true prophet on the earth today. I'm grateful to go to such a beautiful, spiritual, amazing university.

Birthday Weekenddd!

My Wednesday of this last week was a crazy day because I was trying to get everything done before Thursday!!!!! I took my Book of Mormon midterm (which, for those of you wondering, it is SO weird to have tests on the Book of Mormon!?), had a history book to read, and meeting with my peer mentor (which I am happy to report, I will NOT be taking American Heritage as it does not benefit my major! YIPPIE!).  

We had decided though that during open hours, some of the boys would come over to our room.  I bought food (to lure them over ;) and Cortney, Devin, Brian, and Isaac joined Shelby, Whitney, Emily, Lydia, and I for most of Batman Begins.  After 9, we had a homework party until 11:45, when Janel, Elise, Emily, Whitney, Shelby, Lydia, and I walked out to the tunnel by the Tanner Bldg and they sang Happy Birthday to me at midnight!

 

The next morning, Whitney left me the CUTEST scarf ever and Sarah and Blythe Spendlove left me a candy bar outside my room! So cute :) Everyone who knew took the time to wish me a happy birthday, which was always nice. :) I received a package from all my wonderful family back home with a bunch of randomness, which is my FAVORITE! Thank you family!! :)

That night we had decided to go to the soccer game but most of our guy friends went swimming.  We only stayed for part of the game and then that night Lydia, Whitney and I watched Psych. In the middle of the episode, she randomly went over and opened up my window. When I looked outside, Devin (on his saxophone), Cortney, Isaac, Brian, Ian and JJ from our ward were outside and started to sing to me! It was SO awesome and totally made my night :) I wish I had pics/a video but it was dark....funny side note though, girls on other floors opened up their windows as well! haha!

On Friday night, we had a GIRL'S NIGHT, finally! I love hanging out with the boys in our friend's group but man, I love my girl friends! We went off campus to Thai Village, it was SOOOO good! We ate family style and it was a lot of fun :) After, we went back and had a sleepover in our room! Lydia actually brought in her mattress and we fit five people in one small little dorm room! We watched the Mormon version of Pride and Prejudice which I fell asleep to! We finished the night with Divine Comedy.

The next morning, we all (except Shelby and Whitney) slept in till 11 (isn't college the LIFE!?). I had to rush to get ready for the game at one! The football team must have known it was my birthday weekend because...our seats were ROW TWO! It was AWESOME. Sooo much fun and PEARLY came with us as well as the normal crew! :) We won 55-3....and it still a fun game without the competition!

Well, my friends had planned something for Saturday night, but I wasn't told what it was.  So at 8 PM, I went down and was told to go in the vending machine room, only to find "12 of the hottest guys" in our ward, according to Cortney.  We got into cars and went off campus....when I finally figured out what was going on!? They had planned a visit to my first ever haunted house!? I was freaking out!!! We went to Provo Town Center and went to the haunted insane asylum!!!!! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN despite the fact that it was suppose to be scary. Now, there were a few parts when I was scared but otherwise, it was hilarious because Whitney was so scared!!! Afterwards, some people paid extra to go on "The Last Ride" (aka reenactment of being buried alive, gross!) so a group of 7 of us went to Macey's and bought cheesecakes to end the celebration.  We went back to the Tanner Bldg (what else is new?!) and watched the first part of "I am Legend" which is a terribly depressing movie, just saying. After that my birthday celebration was officially over! But my new friends up here and friends from back home and family made it a GREAT birthday!!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes!!! 

Hugs and kisses,

Megan :) 

Oct. 7-8

What a few crazy weeks. I have a ton to catch up and I realized that I never touch on my classes, so I should say a little more about thaaat, seeing as this is college and all.

But first. Let's catch up on the social aspect :)

Laura, Shelby, Lydia, Kenny, Emily, and I at the Temple!

So on that Friday, I finally went to the temple for the first time up here! It was crazy and so different than back home.  We walked over and it was raining, lucky us. But it was still kinda fun, just different. There were TONS of people so we were only able to do 3 names for confirmations and 3 for baptisms.  The Provo Temple keeps everyone on a tight orderly schedule, which was different as well.  But it was just nice to finally be in the temple and have time to ponder.

The boys always model...and so we talk pictures of them!
From left to right: Devin, Cortney (back), Brian,
Tanner (in the hat) and Swanson.

After the temple and dinner, we had decided to do the one thing on campus that none of us had done--bowling! I was talking to my friend Cortney and he and I decided that we needed to get off campus more.  So my group of 6 girls told like 3 boys to get people together to go bowling and then start making off campus trips.  We ended up meeting a huge group of boys from our ward! Basically, our friends had gotten all of their friends in their dorms and we girls were outnumbered. We first walked down to this old fashioned malt place and BOY was it good!? As we were walking back, everyone decided that we didn't want to go bowling (well the majority--I still did!) so we decided to go in the Tanner Building and watch "How to Train your Dragon." After the movie, we played Sardines. After the first round, Whitney hadn't found the first group hiding, so we were like well now everyone go find Whitney! Turns out, the boys (Cortney, Tanner, and Swanson) pulled a fast one on us and took Whitney out of the building!!! We couldn't find any of them and they finally told us they left! After that, we messed around outside for awhile (our friend Zack decided he was going to videotape EVERYTHING, and he did! even at the beginning of this crazy adventure!) but it got too cold to bear. So we went into May Hall because we realized the lobby wasn't closed yet. We ended the night by some of the guys walking us back to Chipman. We were up WAY late. But it was such a crazy fun night!

The Family at Los Hermanos!

Saturday was the homecoming football game!! Grandma and Grandpa were up for homecoming and they picked me up that night for Kevin's birthday dinner at Los Hermanos! Another trip off campus, woo! It was some seriously good Mexican food :)

Isaac and I...Denny's Round Two

Afterwards, we bundled up for the football game, starting at EIGHT at night. Freezing. Actually, okay, it wasn't thaaat cold. We started by sitting with our friends from our ward but then went to check out our seats.  It was only a few of us in the sports pass group, Sarah, Alyssa, Charlotte, Whitney and I. So at halftime, we went back to our ward friends' spot.  We squished in with them and it was way fun! The game, however, got boring cause we were winning so everyone turned their tickets into paper airplanes and tried to get them onto the field, in the end zone. It. was. so. funny! Afterwards, Cortney suggested we go to Denny's. So half of us went to get a table and the other half had to go back to the dorms.  When the first group got there, they received word that more people were coming! So when the other like 8 people showed up, there was a huge line....and they didn't get seated until after our first group was done eating...so we decided to eat AGAIN! We ended up staying at Denny's until 2 AM and finally went back and got to sleep by like 3-ish.

Me, Whitney and Charlotte!

Oh, the college life is for me :)

Craziest but Best Week of College (Thus Far :)

Yupp. The title says it all. It was one CRAZY week and I don't really know where to begin.

Aunt Kerri!!!!

 Well, let's being with Monday :) On Monday I got a surprise visit from Kerri, D.C., Katie, and Adele! They came up and saw my dorm room (which was slightly clean for once haha) and then walked me to my first class! We got lots of "Awww's" on our walk but it was way better than walking by myself and my iPod!

Monday night is FHE, and this week we decided to combine with another family for another round of Missionary Tag! It was a huge game in a light rain on muddy grass by the library. So. much. fun!! I don't understand why that game is so enjoyable, but alas it is! After FHE, Lydia, Shelby and I had a study party in her room which turned into a Skype party with some of the boys in our ward! It started out with just Cortney and slowly turned into a room full of guys, being random and cracking us up!

This is what happens....the guys do something crazy and
us girls get out our cameras. Hence why we don't have
ANY pictures of ourselves!
But here is (from top to bottom)
Cortney, Will, Liam, Matt, and Brian

Tuesday was the opening ceremony of Homecoming, which is so much more legit than high school. Kerri and Don picked me up after my classes and we went to Tucano's. New favorite restaurant say what? For those of you who have never gone...it's basically a meat lover's heaven! It was so much fun and again, great to get away from campus again! Tuesday evening was the "light the Y" hike....however....many of us were lazy and decided instead to watch it from campus. So Lydia, Janel, Emily, Whitney, Cortney, Devin, Josh, and I went up to campus, bringing my guitar and like always acting crazy while watching the Y. It was fun and took away some of the stress of the week which was SO NICE.
After some "studying" took place, Lydia, Shelby, and Devin were having yet another study party outside (because it was after 12 AM and Devin could no longer be in the lobby haha) so I went and joined them. It felt nice to be with good friends and just smile and act crazy till 2 AM....yupp, college is great.

Whitney, Lydia, Shelby and I fell asleep
waiting for them to set up the video game.... :)

Wednesday is open door hours, so craziness always goes down. Shelby's computer was (and still is) dead so we (the normal group of girls) took it over to Cortney the technology master who said he could fix it. Unfortunately it has like 394083 viruses or something like that but all of us girls brought out our homework and got some of the guys to study with us! Towards the end of open hours, the guys showed us this video game "Amnesia" which is basically a zombie video game that freaks them all out. It was hilarious--not gonna lie. Definitely needed those laughs from the fun guys in our ward. :)

Me and Whitney all decked out!

Thursday was crazy cold. October brought COLD weather--and I'm not talking CA cold! I'm talking SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS. It was crazy. And cold. Very cold. I layered up and got made fun of but it was COLD. No one studied on campus because it was raining so everyone was inside (unlike normal, when everyone sleeps, studies, cuddles, etcs. on campus). Campus looked deserted, it was really odd. But the best surprise of all....I walked out of my Book of Mormon class at 2....and IT WAS SNOWING!!!

The "Y" was still seen!

Okay, not really, more like freezing rain, or sleet, or ice, or something but it wasn't just rain! And it all of the sudden turned freezing!?! Luckily, Grandma and Grandpa came and took Whitney and I to Brick Oven Pizza, so it was quite warm! It was great to see them as well!
Well, because we're crazy kids, we decided to go to the soccer game that night....BAD DECISION. It was sooooooooo cold and the seats were wet....but it was actually still fun! We left at half time and instead decided to go have another study party in the boy's dorm...which meant no one got anything done!! I went to bed "early" that night....like midnight...haha :) Did I mention I love college??

Well.....this past weekend was GREAT....but I think that'll be another post. It's now midnight and Whitney's been asleep for awhile....and I should follow her example :)

Night!

General Conference Weekend!!

Another crazy week for me, so I'm late blogging about the past weekend!
Conference was great and dramatically changed my life for the better. I had a change of heart, revisited priorities, and am back on track! 


But General Conference was such a different experience at school than home. For the Saturday morning session, a group of 6 girls from our floor came in the basement and were joined by 3 other girls from Chipman. The best part of the morning session was when President Monson's talk. When he announced the *second* Provo Temple, there wasn't a dry eye in the room.  The Spirit was so strong in the dingy basement room and it definitely strengthen my testimony of temples.


For the afternoon session, we watched in the lobby. We were forced to pay real close attention because the vending machines were soooo loud! I turned into a really good lip reader!

After the priesthood session, our group of 6 girls (Katie, Emily, Whitney, Shelby, Lydia and I) got a group of boys together and went in the Tanner Building (a huge 7 floor building near the dorms). Emily rented the movie R.E.D. and we messed around in the one of the classrooms watching that. We started Forever Strong but got kicked out at 11:45. But, being college and all, instead of going back to the dorms to sleep, a plan was formed to play a game of rugby....IN THE SPRINKLERS. Which turned into just messing around in the sprinklers and getting soaking wet at midnight!...which turned into missionary tag on the muddy slippery grass! Best. idea. ever!! Instead of directly linking arms, you would practically run into them and hope to grab their arm or hand to avoid slipping! We finally ended around 1:30 AM when Jonathan had fallen one too many times. It was seriously one of the best nights yet!!

J.J., Daniel, Shelby, Janel, Lydia, Brian, Whitney, Me, and Katie
(not pictured: Emily, Cortney, Jonathan, Josh)

Me and Lucy!


We watched the Sunday morning session in the basement with our "new" group of friends. After, we had lunch all together in the Cannon. I left midway and watched the last session with Kevin and Julia! It was a lot of fun and odd to be around little kids again. But I was nice to be off campus and having a home cooked meal!?

When I got back, I went over to the boy's dorm for visiting hours where we watched the Best Two Years in their basement- which was fun as well as a "spiritual end" to the conference weekend!!!