It's official--I'm moved in, and classes are underway! The move wasn't as harrowing as I anticipated, and my new house is beyond awesome. We're still settling and moving things around, but just to give you an idea...
It's amazing. And two of my roommates have serious decorating talent, so when we're finished, this place will be the envy of all Rockhurst students everywhere. It's a gratifying feeling :-)
We've only had 3 days of classes, but this will be an enjoyable semester for me. My courseload is heavily Theology (9 of my 16 hours), and all of my Theology classes are actually focused more on small religious movements and non-Christian religions, which is very exciting to me. (I suppose that actually makes them Religious Studies classes, not Theology classes). It's also a nice preparation for my grad school study, since I would love to do work in comparative religions.
As far as that grad school search goes, I'm finally down to a final list of 5 schools I'm definitely applying to and a handful of maybes. My goal is to go fast and furious on my top three school applications, and then send out any more apps I have time for. I'm taking the GRE in October (can't say I'm looking forward to it, but it's a necessary evil), and other than that my personal statements are going to be dominating my life for awhile. In the meantime, I'll probably be making the rounds in our Theology department asking for advice on how to make my application stand out and what to expect at the graduate level. Lucky me, Rockhurst's Theology staff is second to none...in my opinion, we literally have no professors that are less than amazing. I think it's one of the reasons why so many Rockhurst students end up leaving here with at least a Theology minor.
This Friday is a quiet one for me...tomorrow I'm going to a leadership institute with all our new freshman honors students, since I'm an honors mentor this year. I'm pretty excited about it--our honors program has become much, much more than it was when I began here a few years back, and I love the fact that we're getting freshman involved early on so they can keep this student association going.
That said, I have a decent amount of homework I want to tackle tonight, so I'll sign off.
Until next time!
