Essentials

Hey Everyone!


I am so excited to be writing this post and to be finding some kind of normalcy again!  Last semester I wanted to keep up with my personal writing so badly- and maybe I should have.    But even though we only added an additional class, I felt like our work load tripled in size and anything besides studying and going out with friends seemed like a guilty activity to me- something I shouldn't be doing because it wasn't an essential.   Looking back though, there were a lot of "nonessentials" I sacrificed that maybe in retrospect I should have realized were things I really needed after all.  BIG example would be working out.  To be fair, I did try and take walks about once a week with friends and attempted to go to a few workout classes but nothing consistent.  While I'm obviously regretting this choice now that swim suit season is starting I think more importantly I'm recognizing that taking care of yourself should have been a better priority for me.  If I had worked out maybe my energy levels would have been higher and then I could have studied harder or kept my focus better for exams.


Well, one of my biggest mottos is no regrets so I'm trying not to drone on my short comings from this past semester too much and just try to look forward to the new adventures (haha maybe too many adventures) I have waiting for me.  In my next post I'll talk about my plans for the summer which I am SO EXCITED about.  Kind of a dream come true actually so I'll look forward to updating everyone soon (:   In the mean time- here are some highlights from the past semester- mainly from the very beginning and end of the semester but that is sort of another example of this blog post huh?   Happy Wednesday!


Love,
Anne

In Chronological Order....

My facebook friends will recognize this one-
Kevin and I toured around Georgetown in early January for the day and
snapped this picture in front of the main building on the undergrad campus.
 Sometimes I'm a little jealous our campus is so far away from here.

Gourmet Hot Chocolate to keep warm in January

Meredith and I went to Mount Vernon for a day trip before the semester started.  So beautiful!

Valentine's Day Flowers

Went to visit Stanford in March-
and came back with serious campus envy.

This was last week- 

went to NYC with Jane as her HS graduation present.

             Came back from MN yesterday from visiting my lovely friend Sam-
haha and came back with only a picture of the mall of America.  
That place was absolutely enormous!