Who’s finally finished with finals?! Me! I’m super excited. I finished with all my finals yesterday and I’ve just been relaxing and living it up since then. Definitely something to be grateful for. Not to mention Holiday break has begun and the second semester doesn't begin until mid-January. Exciting!

But at any rate, I’m enjoying being through with my first semester of college - went so fast! I don't really want to think about having to register for next semester of classes, but I won't have to worry about that until the New Year. So far I've been receiving decent grades in most of my finals - what's nice are the grades are posted almost immediately online, so there is no waiting. The only course final that I'm waiting on is my Intro to Architecture final. It included not only completing a final exam for the class, but also writing a college level term paper. When I was in high school we didn't write many term papers - only two that I can remember, and both were in English courses. This paper for my Architecture course was very difficult mostly because I had to involve organized research, proper formatting and a strong argument that I had to provide evidence for in the paper. Not only that, but I also had to talk with my professor first before working on the paper, because you want to be sure you're on the right track. Also, choosing the research topic was tough for me, but I feel pretty confident that it was a good paper.

We have a major snowstorm (apparently)coming our way in the next few hours. The city where I live, which is west of Milwaukee, is expected to receive 7-12 inches of snow which is a pretty good amount, even though I doubt we'll get that much.

I took the dog for a walk when the snow started and took a picture of a thistle bush covered in snow.


Tomorrow night I'll be seeing The Hobbit with Brent - he's a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien who also wrote the Lord Of The Rings series. I saw the first LOTR movie and liked it a lot, so hopefully this one will be just as good.

Happy Holidays!