University of New England: Emma Bouthillette

Wow all,
Sorry for not being on top of this blog in the month of November. Not quite sure where this month went...phew!

Anyway, I'm having a hard time bringing fun stuff to you about UNE because as noted from the Septembers blogs, I am doing my semesters work at Salt. While Salt is fun and exciting, it has consumed my life. Just ask my roomies, friends and family. I eat, sleep and breath documentary work.

Needless to say, there is one thing that I know for certain happens to most college students after Thanksgiving. You get almost a week off for that one day of turkey consumtion and then you return to classes on Monday and wham!!! Everyone realizes there are only 3 weeks left to the semester.

3 weeks can be exciting...
Christmas is around the corner. Snow is in the forecast. You have a month off to look forward to. You look back and realize how fast the semester went by and how you have survived the syllabi handed out to you on the first day.

3 weeks can be nerve-wrecking...
My second to last semester as a college undergrad is coming to an end. Graduation is only 20 weeks away. I have a TON of stuff to get done in the next 18 days. For the traditional college courses there are finals to be dealt with...for me it is polishing my writing and planning the gallery openning for Salt.

3 weeks can be tiring...
You've just had a mini vacation and are still recovering from a turkey coma. You've spent the past 5 days catching up on soap operas and watching all the Christmas movies now plaguing the television. Maybe you even woke up at 4am to go to Old Navy at 5am to get great deals on sweaters (yep...I'm crazed). And NOW they are asking you to put the pedal to the medal and finish off the semester with a bang...all you want to do is sit by the fire and watch Charlie Brown's Christmas and The Grinch for the 100 millionth time in your life.

Ugh...it's rough I tell you sometimes.

Either way, you push through. You get it done. Then you look back and Thanksgiving seems like just yesterday. It is a constant push and pull for wanting time to go by faster because you want to be done for the semester and time haulting because you want to bask in the moments of college. While college may not all be peaches and cream, as I look back on the past 3 and 1/2 years...and it's cliche but I'll say it... I know it will be one of the best times of my life.

<3

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Hi all,
So as you've been meeting your new bloggers I hope you are enjoying to get to know them. They have a fresh look at the scene at UNE and will provide great insight.

As for myself, I am crazy busy with my semester at Salt and life in general. I'm keeping everything not to just go run out side and scream like a lunatic (although it may release some negative energy).

There are deadlines and demands from my professors flying at me right and left...on top of that I redeveloped the cold I never got rid of toward the end of August...and the crunch is on for the end of the semester (I only have four weeks to finalize my writing for salt AHHHHHH).

I just wanted to touch base quickly with my blog fans and tell you all I am still alive (barely) and will be getting some more interesting blogs up shortly.

Praying for the first snowfall this week!!!
Yay!

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Ladies and gentlmen,
Boys and girls,
It is that time of year again...
It comes twice a year for the luck college students...
REGISTRATION!!!

Oiay....that is all I can say.

This is it, my final registration as a college undergrad. I went to the dentist today and my next appointment they set up is May 13th...3 days after college graduation. It is scary to think that the next time I get my teeth cleaned I will have graduated from UNE.
Do I have any idea what I will be doing?
Well I will be moving out of my fun little cottage....but other than that NO!

I met with my advisor today at 12pm...now it is 12am and I am sitting at my computer. Fingers crossed. CRNs (course registration numbers) written down. Schedule mapped out. (a couple pumpkin head beers in me because after all it is halloween)

Everyone gets so crazed come registration time. Seniors are trying to figure out if they have enough credits in the right formation to graduate with their majors and minors. Juniors are angry because they don't get first pick. Sophomores have the hang of U-Online by now. Freshmen may be using the system for the first time and mostly they care about not having a class before noon. (JK they care that they get the classes they need. Freshmens have the most required coursework)

Not to mention, registration begins at midnight on your designated day. Seniors get first pick, Juniors six days later and so on. Whoever thought of midnight as a good start time is crazy though.

The website is slow because EVERYONE is trying to get their courses. Some people don't stay up that late normally. Other people are out and about (we had to leave the bar early). I don't know many people though who don't sit down at their computer at 11:55pm and set themselves up. They get as far along in the process as the program allows and count down the minutes.

5...

4...

3...

2...

1...

Enter your CRNs NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I got all but one class.

Monday I have...
2-2:50 Literature of the Sea
3-3:50 British Literature and its Others

Tuesday...
nada

Wednesday I have...
12:30-1:50 Citizenship
2-2:50 Literature of the Sea
3-3:50 British Literature and its Others

Thursday...
6-8:50 Painting (yay)

Friday I have...
2-2:50 Literature of the Sea
3-3:50 British Literature and its Others

I'm waiting to hear from the PSY professor because I really want to take the Introduction to Art Therapy on Fridays but the program is telling me there is a major conflict....so we'll see. Hopefully I can get in. I also will have an independant study on Literary Publications based on my work with Zephyr.

January 17th will bring around a new schedule and in 6 months I'll be looking at the schedule for senior week.

Yes, it seems just like yesterday I was anxious to get through my high school senior week and enjoy summer before diving head first into college.

All you prospective students...enjoy the times you have

and dream about the days to come.

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