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"Normal Life"?

I have been in Utah for almost three weeks! I still have no idea what normal life is going to be like... For two weeks I was in intense training for my job. I was working from 9am to 4pm M-F. Have I talked about my job yet? I LOVE IT! I am a Freshman Mentoring Peer Mentor. I get to interact with the Freshman and make sure that they are able to take full advantage of all that BYU has to offer. I am basically here for them for wahtever they need. Have I mentioned how much I love it?

But as part of my job, I got the opportunity to attend NSO again. Now, last year I did not like NSO that much. Infact, I kind of despised it. Why, you ask? It was just so long! Here is the schedule from this year (which it is very similar to what we did last year)
Wednesday:
10:00 a.m. On-Campus Housing Check-in
8:00 p.m. Housing Move-in Socials Per Assigned Housing

Thursday:
8:30-10:00 a.m. NSO Check-in, Meet Y Group
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Convocation
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00-3:00 p.m. Education in Zion & Library Tour
3:00-5:00 p.m. Campus Tour
5:00-6:15 p.m. DINNER ON YOUR OWN
6:30-7:30 p.m. Honor Night
7:30-9:30 p.m. Y Photo & Rise Up Pep Rally

Friday:
8:30-9:40 a.m. Devotional
10:00-12:00 p.m. A BYU Education (Peer Mentor Meeting)
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00-3:00 p.m. Getting to Know Your Major & College
3:00-5:00 p.m. Information & Service Fairs
7:00-9:00 p.m. Evening of Traditions
9:00-11:00 p.m. Friday Night Extravaganza & New Ice Cream Flavor Reveal

Saturday:
8:00-11:00 p.m. Saturday Night Finale

The bolded events are the ones that I attended this year. Just look at that schedule!! Can you blame me for being exhausted and homesick by the end of it my Freshman NSO? This year though was completely different. I had a purpose. I didn't have to go to everything. I had been moved in for two weeks. So, will all of these differences, I loved it! :)

Now school has started. And my life has been turned upsidedown. I am taking 15 credits of all classes for my Major! I have a love/hate relationship with this fact. I love that I am taking classes for my major, but I am hating that I am just so stressed out by all of these classes. They all expect so much, but I am trying to get used everything. Between 15 credits and 15-20 hours of work, it is hard to get used to everything again. I am actually thankful that I am not doing DC this semester because I don't think I could handle it all and still try and get good grades. So now I am waiting for normal life to resume...maybe someday...
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