Last Semester at BYU!

My class schedule this semester is pretty crazy, but I'm really excited for all my classes. I'm taking 18 credits, so 6 classes in total, and since it's my last semester before I graduate I'm taking my last couple of Editing courses. In one of my classes we are creating a magazine -- the Summer issue of Stowaway -- and I'm really excited! When I first signed up for the class last November I believed we were making kind of a mock magazine just for experience sake, but the magazine we're making is a legit magazine that people actually subscribe to and also pay to advertise in! On the first day of class we had to look over each position available on the magazine and write a letter of application for which position we wanted and send in our resume. My top three choices were:

1. Senior Editor
2. Copy Editor
3. Associate Editor

And this morning in class we finally found out our positions and I got Senior Editor!! I am thrilled!! I was doubtful about the position since it seemed as if everyone on the staff wanted it and there's only two positions available, but I got it and I'm so happy! It means this semester is going to be a lot of work, but it's going to be really beneficial work and plus, it'll look great on my resume.

My other classes all seem really great as well. I'm in a CHUM class were I'll be learning Indesign and Photoshop and making a flyer, a book, a newsletter, and a photo album. I'm also in an Early Modern English class where I'll be acting out the fifth scene of Shakespeare's Othello with the other 4 girls in my group. And I'm in my senior course for the Elang major where I'll be learning about textual criticism and more specifically the research my teacher has done with the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. The last two classes I have are Discourse Analysis (analyzing verbal communication) and Psycholinguistics. All my teachers this semester are awesome and I'm really excited about what I'll be learning and the experience I'll be getting.

I'm also going to try to work on another student journal this semester as an editor. I haven't decided which, but all the meetings start up this week so I'll be deciding quick. Again it'll just give me more editing experience, which I'll be needing seeing as I'm graduating in April!! I still can't believe that after all this time I'll actually be done with school forever (unless I go to Grad school, but right now I'm so burnt out on school that I'm not thinking about that anymore). It's really exciting! And I'm happy Grant's graduating at the same time as I am, it's makes it easier for us. Hopefully we get jobs and we'll be able to know where were going and what we're doing after graduation!

That's the update for now. Hopefully I'll be able to survive this semester!