I have a plan!

Aw rats, I already skipped a day.  I can tell that an every day blog is going to be an impossible task.  I will tell you that the majority of my day yesterday was spent sleeping so nothing real exciting happened.

Today was GREAT!  The weather was fantastic, my calculus class was cancelled, and I was just in a happy mood!  I also was reassured about what I wanted to do for the rest of my life; kinda a big deal. Ha! As a freshman engineer, we have been working all year toward Decision Day.. which is THIS FRIDAY!  This is a day where you stand in front of all the freshman engineers at a big celebration and proclaim the engineering field you are choosing.  First semester we had a different department come and speak to us every Friday.  Since deciding on engineering I thought I would be industrial, but then after hearing departmental info sessions I started to become torn between industrial, civil, and computer.  Maybe I should mention that I skipped class the day of the industrial session so I missed the reassurance I needed that industrial was where I wanted to be.  This semester we had to attend longer information sessions in the evenings that included tours and hands on experience with the department.  Tonight was my last session, and it was industrial.  We saw demonstrations in the robotics lab, got to work with a computer program to solve a real world problem, and spoke with industrial engineering graduates and grad students.  Oh! And we ate and they had industrial engineering cookies! :)  I can honestly say after tonight my decision has never been more clear.  This Friday at approximately 10:30am, I will stand up in front of my peers and confidently say,
"MY NAME IS MADISON FULLER AND I AM GOING TO BE AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER!"
I'm so excited.  I know it's going to be a long road, that I will not be doing in the 4 years of the ideal plan, but I know that it will all be worth it and I will love what I am doing!

This was my industrial engineering cookie! It made my happy! :)

You know what I love? Google. Really. I swear you can google anything these days! Sometimes there are just little things that drive me absolutely nuts until I know the answer! For example, I sneezed the other day and Alex said "Bless You".  A normal response.. I got to thinking about that and wondered why in the world is that what you say when someone sneezes.  When I think of someone saying "Bless You" I think of that as the response to someone who does something very thoughtful and Godly for others.  Uhmm, I don't know about you but there isn't much Godly about a sneeze to me; I'm not saying I think it's a sacrilegious thing, but it's certainly not what I do to praise Jesus.  Anyways, I googled it!  There is an urban legend that your soul might escape through your nose when you sneeze so people would say "God Bless You" to ward off the devil.  Interesting.  I have pretty bad pollen and dust allergies and have sneezed many times in my life... pretty sure I still have my soul.  I also read that sneezing was a big symptom of the plague and many would say "Bless You" as sympathy toward someone who had the awful disease.  I think I prefer to believe that is where the phrase comes from, rather than thinking it comes from the fact I may lose my soul with a simple sneeze.  Hmm.

Well, that's all I have for now.  I'm off to study for an economics test! Well, I probably won't because it's not actually for another week but I'm trying to motivate myself to do a little at a time so I don't have to cram like usual.  I'll actually probably end up sitting here, eating, and watching tv.

Have a great week!

Madison :)