The Importance of Being Lauren

So today is the day! My research paper is due, and then I have a final next week!!! The fact that I have two major grades in two weeks is not exactly why I'm happy. I'm happy because after next week I will officially be done with my first semester of college!!!! It wasn't half as bad as I thought it was going to be. I can hardly wait for next semester!!! I find myself looking forward to the new challenges of school, instead of dreading them. Going to school has been an amazing experience for me! My family helps me with so many things. And prayer has become a huge part of my life. I love all the changes that I have gone through since starting in August. It's been awesome! The weather here has been amazingly awesome! And it's the first day of December!!! One of my favorite months ever!!!!! *I also found out today that I can get my perfect 100% (even though I have "flagrant tardies") if I write 3 essays on scriptures that mean a lot to me!!! Yay !*

A month ago one of my Seminary teachers have everyone in the class a name tag. It said of course our names and what ward we are in. The name card was plain, boring, and it was pitifully ugly. I decided that nothing that had my name written on it could be so lame and like everybody else's so I took it home with me. I armed myself with markers, and a pencil and I attacked that tag until no spot was left uncolored. I'm in love with my name tag's colorfulness!!! I drew a flower, made a colored border, colored in the letters, I even wrote "Be happy" in big happy yellow letters, and I drew a Pimpster-Sun on the front. I must say it was one of the most beautifully creative things that I have ever created. (My Mister Pimp-sun resembled this sun only I drew him fiery orange spiky hair. I think they're related or something.....) I started a trend!!!! Almost everybody in the class started decorating their name tags as soon as they saw how awesome mine looked. I thought ...

Last Friday something really embarrassing happened to me, and to make it worse it was at Seminary!!!! Just so you know I love seminary! It's the best, and I learn a lot of new things everyday. So last Friday we were going over memorizing tips for Scripture Mastery, and it was pretty lame. (It was a rhyme thing to help us remember what the scriptures were about.) So I made a rap with it and here's how it went, "*beat box please* Yo, yo. 1st Nephi 3 "Prepares A Way For Me". 1st Nephi 19 "Scripture Likening". *That's right* 2nd Nephi 2 "Adam Fell For You".*point at the people next to you* Word. *random nerd gang signal *" (We have to learn 25 of these scriptures so I only did the first three in my rap......) My friend Cameo was laughing, and laughing at me. And then my teacher decided it was time to do it without our cheat sheets!! This was the first step toward my "crash and burn" moment.... I flipped my cheat-sheet over to fa...