Well...woman...haha but you get my point with this blog title
The past couple of weeks have brought some major changes, both in my own personal experience and in the nation as a whole.
And while a lot of these changes are scary and some aren't that bad...they all have one thing in common:
They have made me extremely grateful to be who I am and grateful to be where I am.
Three years ago I made the best decision I could have ever made.
I chose the University of Utah.
I chose to become a Ute.
And to be honest I had no idea that I would love it as much as I have.
I will be real with you all here...I was raised a BYU cougar....I know I know...but everyone has skeletons in their closet haha ;) But I found the light and boy am I glad that I did!!
So choosing the U was a little bit of surprise for my very much Cougar blue family.
But my daddy graduated as a Ute so it's not like it was totally out of nowhere.
It was a difficult decision for me to choose the U.
I was lucky enough to get into every school that I applied to, so I had some major decisions to make when the acceptance letters came in.
Choosing the U would, after all, mean that I wouldn't be moving out of my house as quickly as I would have had to had I chosen to go to any of those other schools. Choosing the U meant that I would be going to a state school, which pretentious high school senior me wasn't all that inclined to do.
But like any big decision I took it to the Lord, and after a LOT of praying no other school but the University of Utah felt right to me.
I was surprised as anyone when I expressed my decision. I applied to the U on a whim (not to be confused with a safety net school...I wasn't even sure I would get into any schools and being the daddy's girl that I am I wanted to apply to his alma mater because my getting in would make him really proud) so my choosing it over all the other schools was not an outcome I was expecting.
But that was the answer that I received and it was the best possible answer I could have ever gotten, and I feel so blessed to have been able to heed that answer.
I LOVE my school. I love being a Ute.
If I could go back to senior year of high school I would still make the same decision.
I have a hard time understanding why people would want to go to any other school, because the University of Utah has been such a major source of happiness in the past three years for me.
I'm basically obsessed with everything Utah and I truly believe that we are the best school in Utah bar none.
I mean to each their own I guess...but Utah Utes will always be dominant ;)
I am a proud Ute and I am grateful to be able to say that I will always be a proud Ute...even if my graduation date has been pushed a little further back than I would have liked.
I love my school, I love my boys in red and I love my new major!
Good luck to those boys in red as they take on Washington in their second to last away game of the season.
Kill those Huskies!
"So fill your lungs and sing it out and shout it to the sky,
I'll fight for dear old Crimson for a UTAH. MAN. AM I!!
GO UTES!"
Much love,
-L
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