It’s been a week since I left South Carolina to drive to Kansas, and I’m here to update you that I am alive and well but very tiring. I’ve been busy since the minute I arrived in Lawrence with orientation and getting setup for classes, then moving into my apartment on Tuesday, to starting classes [...]

My mom left Kansas in April of 2001, I stayed behind and lived with my dad, step-mom and sister because starting high school with my friends and being with my then boyfriend was more important to me than anything else in the world. When my dad kicked me out and sent me packing to live [...]

It’s amazing some of the things we will say to someone admist an argument. For me, I prematurely told Alan I had gotten accepted to Michigan State the other day during an argument, in hopes of diffusing the situation. My heart was in a good place, but I shouldn’t have said what I did. Granted, [...]

I haven’t had the time to post much lately because I’ve literally been working on school work the majority of the past week. I tried really hard to make sure I didn’t want until the last minute to do all of it, but that never seems to work; I’m the best procrastinator there is! Originally, [...]

When Alan and I first started dating, we talked about everything; what we wanted out of life, what our plans were, what we wanted to do as far as education/career goes, we even talked about marriage and things of the sort. It was mentioned that I should try applying to Michigan State University, partly because [...]

Even though, I completed my Associate of Arts degree last semester and don’t need to take anymore classes I decided that I’d take online classes this semester for a couple of reasons: 1) to keep my health insurance through my dad which is through the military - I have to be enrolled in school full [...]

I was able to pull straight A’s this semester, 4.0 GPA and raised my overall GPA to a 2.75 (do they round that shit? lol). I’ve requested to have my transcripts sent to MSU which should be done within the week, so now I just have to call and get them to change the semester [...]