Ah, what kind of college?

It seems like a simple answer, but yet it is so hard to answer. This question can mean so many different things to different people. Like, do you want to go to a big or small college? A christian college? A major university? A college out of state? A college that has the best education program? etc. etc. etc. 

To me what kind of college I want to go to means do I want to go to a small college and then transfer into a larger university? Or am I even ready to go to a major university? Am I ready to live out of state? The list goes on and on. As for as a college with the best accounting program or education program or whatever program, that does not concern me because I have not declared a major yet, which in fact scares me. 

My major question is, can I handle a large university like Auburn, Georgia, or Alabama? All three of these schools have some where between 20,000 to 30,000 students. And I would love to go to any one of these 3 colleges. I am just scared to dive right into one of these universities because of all the changes. I am coming from a small private christian school with about 110 students in my grade. So jumping from 110 students to 20,000 is very scary and overwhelming to me as well, among other things.  

This is just one more stress that comes along with the decisions about senior year! Like I said senior year is no walk in the park, I am learning that throughout this whole process! 

Have a great weekend, 

Katie 

Senioritis...

We all know about it! Good ole Senioritis, we've all been through it too! Well, it has most definitely hit me hard this year. To be honest it had hit me since August... One mistake that I made coming into my Senior year was thinking it was going to be the best year of my life and that I did not have to do anything. Little did I know... 




It was a wake up call when all of this happened to not be true. I soon learned that this year was not one big party. It was actually a very hard and stressful year. See, I was told that Junior year was going to be your hardest high school and then senior year was suppose to be laid back. So I went into it not thinking college was going to be a big deal. Well, it turns out this year is not as hard as junior year academically, but definitely more stressful with the decisions of college. 


It was a hard thing to accept once I realized all of this. I had into dead set into my head that it was going to be easy and one big party. I believe though that second semester will be a little more relaxed after all the applications are sent in and decisions are made. Or at least that is what I have heard but here again, I was told that senior year was going to be so easy! I guess we will have to sit back and see! 








Until next time, 




Katie :)

Thanksgiving Break

We have already mad it to thanksgiving break! Wow, it is crazy to think this school year is almost half way over. It's sad and exciting at the same time, more of a bittersweet type thing. I am very happy that the holidays are here! It is may favorite time of the year. 


I have decided to spend my Thanksgiving breaking serving God. I am going on a mission trip to the City of Angles in Cozumel, Mexico. I am leaving tomorrow and will be back the following saturday. I am going to miss Thanksgiving with my family and I am very sad about that. I have never missed a holiday with them so it is definitely going to be different. 


I am excited to go serve but I am also nervous, I have never been to Mexico or even out of the country. One good thing about that is that my brother will also be going on this trip as well. We will be staying on the orphanage property and will be serving in three different groups, VBS, community service, or service. I will be serving in the community service group and we will be traveling around the city and giving food to families. 


This trip is going to be something that I will remember for the rest of my life and I hope it will be a great experience for my whole mission group. 


I hope that everyone has a safe & great Thanksgiving break and eat lots of turkey! 




Katie :) 

Finally, My First Acceptance Letter :)

IT'S FINALLY HERE! I have been waiting anxiously for any college acceptance letter to come in the mail and I just received my very first one from the University in Alabama! I can't explain to you the relief it gave me when I got it, just knowing that a college has accepted me is a great feeling! 


The weird thing was that I thought I would know exactly when the acceptance letters would be here and what they looked like. In my mind it was suppose to be this big event with me opening the envelope or I thought I would be too nervous too and I would hand it over to my parents. But tonight that is not what happened at all actually. 


I had just gotten the mail tonight and there was a ton of it. I just threw it all on the counter and didn't even bother to look through it, except to get my Glamour and People magazines of course. My mom was going through it and said, "Katie, look here!" She suddenly got nervous because there were two envelopes. I was not thinking anything of it and just opened it, and it was about an Alabama online account. I then reassured my mom that it wasn't anything important. I then ripped open the second envelope and there it was, my acceptance letter just the way I thought it would look. I looked over at my mom with a huge smile and started screaming! She came over and gave me a big hug, we were both so, so happy and relieved. 


She then told me to call my dad, who was still at work. I called him screaming and he was so happy too! I then called all of my grandparents to tell them that I had gotten my first college acceptance letter. This turned out to be a great night and it was all so unexpected! 


So to all the seniors who are still waiting to hear back from colleges, do not worry! I thought I was the only one out there who had not been accepted but it takes time, a lot of time....! But to me it was worth the while, well at least since I got accepted ;)  








Have a great night, 




Katie :) 

Test Scores...

Yes, I am talking about the SAT & the ACT.... these test are so important as far as getting into to college goes. Back 10 or 20 years ago, there was only one test which was the SAT. Now, there are two tests that differ in many ways and we now have to figure out which one suits us better.


I personally HATE these tests for so many reasons. First, these tests in my opinion are very challenging. So it requires for a lot of people to get outside tutoring services. I started tutoring for the SAT first in January of my junior year. I then took the SAT for the first time in June. And it was very hard for me, and when I received my scores I was disappointed with them. I signed up to take it again in the fall and see if I could improve my scores.


I then started to tutoring for the ACT thinking that I could do better on that test. I felt good going into the test and thought I did pretty good. I then got my scores recently and was disappointed with these scores as well. I once again have signed up to take this test again to see if I can improve my scores on this test.


I do not like these test because, sometime people aren't good test takers. People can have test anxiety or just simply cannot do well on tests. I feel like I fall under this category. I just wish colleges did not look at these scores as much as they do. I feel like a lot of students work their whole school years to get good grades and get a strong GPA but then cannot get good test scores. I feel that this is very unfair to these students.


I really want to wish seniors out there who are struggling with this problem like I am! I hope we can improve our test scores and get into the college of our choice!


Have a great weekend!


Katie :)

Waiting...

This year, I have had to learn to be very patient because when you apply to colleges you have to be patient! And right now it is really killing me to have wait on a response of whether I have gotten in or not. I have applied to two major colleges, Alabama and Georgia Southern. I applied back in September and have yet to receive a response from these colleges...


I really just want to be accepted to a college right now because I feel like I am the only one in my grade who has not been accepted into any college! And I do not like this feeling at all. I start to think that I did not do that application right or I left something out etc. I start to panic and worry that I won't get in and that my grades aren't good enough. 


I wanted to know where I was going to college before Christmas but obviously that won't happen. I am still working on two more applications to Auburn and to the University of Georgia. I really hope I here from somewhere soon or I think I might go crazy! 




Stay tuneddd, 


Katie :)

Screen Cast!

College Visit!

Yesterday, I took a college visit to Auburn University with my mom, my good friend, & her mother. This college visit has been one of many that I have taken in the past year. So far, I have visited Clemson, University of Alabama, Ole Miss, and I have been up to UGA for some of the college football games! 


College visits are always interesting for me because they bring so many different feelings. They are so overwhelming! When I get on the campus, questions just come racing to my mind and all these thoughts are just racing. I have realized when I do get on some of these large college campuses I just kind of get a weird feeling that I can't describe. 


However, when I went to Auburn yesterday I had a really good feeling about it, I could actually see myself there in the future going to school there. It was great to finally feel good about this college & now that I want to go there, I need to finish the application....& then the waiting process begins to be accepted. 


Now that I am back home, we have a big playoff game tonight and I can't wait to cheer for our team! That is one thing that I do love about high school, the football games are awesome!




Stay warm this cold weekend in Georgia, 






Katie :) 

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

A large part of my Senior year has been about decisions, MAJOR decisions. The biggest of them being where to go to college? There are so many different factors that you have to think about when making this huge life decision. What I have heard from people is that you will just know what college is right for you when you visit it. But, so far no college has felt like that at all. There are so many different options students can do as for as going to college, a few of them being, going to a large university such as The University of Georgia. The next option is going to a smaller, private school either in state or out of state and then finally you can go to a junior college and then transfer into a larger college. 

When I try to make a decision on which of these three routes that I would like to do, I feel as if I want to go all three ways. In my Junior Year of high school I always thought that I am definitely going to a large university no matter what because I thought to be successful you had to go to a larger school. Once I really started looking at all my options though, I saw myself going to a smaller school and also transferring into a larger college. 

One of my biggest fears of going through this whole college process is that I will make the wrong decision and regret the decision that I did make. And I am also scared to make a decision because I feel like I will always find a better college or this that and the other. There are just so many colleges to look at out there and it is truly hard to find what you are looking for and I have still yet to find that "perfect" college or just have that feeling of knowing what college is right for me. 

Speaking of all these colleges, I've gotta go finish some college applications! 

have a good night, 

Katie :) 

Trying to be Perfect Senior Year

When this year started I really did not feel like a senior at all, it was a weird feeling know that my classmates and I will be gone this time next year and some of us may never see each other again. So I wanted to make this year a great year and try to get along with everyone and have everyone like me, so that I will be remembered as a genuinely nice person. Once I had this in my head, I had to be absolutely the nicest to everyone and get along with everyone.

Once reality set in, I soon realized that I can not get along with everyone and not everyone will like me even though it is senior year. I want to be remembered as a really nice person, but one can only do so much. Then there is the thought that why do I even care what my classmates think of me because I will never have to see them again in my life. It goes back and fourth and it gets hard to deal with.

I have come to realize that my best friends are all I need this year and that we will remain close even after senior year, and that I just need to try to be as nice as I can this year to other people. And I can't do anything to make them think of me as a genuinely nice person when we all graduate. People think what they want to think.   

Until next time,

Katie Hayes 

Homecoming Week!

It's a week full of excitement, happiness, and creativity! Since Monday, the whole student body has been able to dress up each day for the theme of the day for example, monday was decade day so my friends and dressed up like 80s girls! We have all dressed up everyday and it has been so much fun!


This week has been a great week with no college stress or stress in general, I have really enjoyed it. I wish every week could be like this, there is just nothing that compares to a fall week with the big homecoming game on friday and the dance on saturday! I am also a varsity cheerleader, so the team is doing a big pep rally for the entire school and we all hope it goes great and that the student body loves it!


As for next week, it will be back to the regular schedule and back to the stress but I am glad that this week has been fun and I cannot wait to see how this weekend goes! 


Have a Great Weekend,




Katie

Another Crazy, Stressful Day....

In my blog, there will probably be some positive happy posts and some negative, unhappy posts. Like I said in my previous posts, I am going to write about what I have been stressing out about since the beginning of this year which started August 9, 2010. 


Senior year, has been by far a very very stressful year for me. There are just SO many things that are thrown at us from day 1. I was not expecting this at all either! The thing about it is, these decisions are all extremely important and they are also decisions that effect your life because, college is the starting point of your life in a way. Or at least that is how I am taking it, I feel this extreme amount of pressure and it is hard to deal with it this early in the year, it truly caught me off guard....


I am really hoping that this year's pressures and stresses calm down, I feel like all the seniors could use a little bit of it personally! 




Until the next time! 


And seniors this year? visit this website for some help :) 


http://www.teenink.com/college_guide/college_articles/article/3116/Senior-Year-Stress/

How is Senior Year So Far?

I now know how to work a blog and what I want my blog to be about! I am very excited to share with the world, my advice on how to get through Senior Year. My advice will be about ways to cope, get through the stress, and to focus on Senior Year. 


So far, Senior Year has been a crazy ride! It has recently calm down though. I will start from the beginning and write a little about what I have gone through each week. 


Before my Senior Year started, I had these AMAZING expectations of this year. I went in thinking this year was going to be the best year of my life and absolutely nothing can go wrong, little did I know? So many different things have gone wrong or have gone different according to my "plan". 


This has been one of the hardest things that I have had to realize this year, and had to accept and it is getting better since the beginning of this year. So throughout this year, I will share some of the other struggles and what is true and what is not about Senior Year 2011 :) 




Until next time,


Kay Hay  






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The First Post

Well, this is my very first post on my very first blog. It is very interesting, and I am excited to use it. The reason I had to make this blog was for a class called, Digital Communications. I do not know what to expect from this and I am not quite sure what I will write about either? I guess we will find out!

Stay Tuneddddd. 

Kay Hay