University of New England: Alyssa Fastnacht

It is April 14th, and I am totally finished with my freshman year of college on May 4th. I have two more music classes, four more english classes, six more chem/phys classes, and six more french classes until it's summertime for me. This year flew by so fast.

This past weekend was Easter, so I went home and spent it with my family. It was really good to see my grandparents and my aunt and uncle and of course my siblings and parents. We had another awesome Easter Egg Hunt, even though all of us are between the ages of 16 and 22. Tradition. Here are some pictures of the hunt!

Meme reading the letter from the Easter Bunny that tells us all (in poem form) what color egg we have to look for.

My cousin Chelsea (I think she found one up there)

My cousin Ryan and I looking for our eggs

My younger sister Nicole looking for her eggs

Yay! I found one finally!

My brother Kurt

My older sister Kailyn

No family get-together is complete unless someone is sleeping...this time it was Leo.

It was a really good and relaxing weekend, but I'm glad to be back at school because every day that goes by is one day closer to summer. I have a feeling that this week is going to fly by because I don't have any english classes. My teacher cancelled classes this week so that we could have individual conferences with her to revise our papers. If we meet with her about our papers then we can fix them up and pass them back in to her to regrade until we get an A on it. It's a really good opportunity because we learn how to self edit. After finishing a daunting research paper, the last thing you want to do is go back and write it all over again, so this teaches us to put our best effort into it the first time around so that there is less to do when we get it back.

It's getting pretty late, so I'm going to head off to bed now! Goodnight!

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Hey guys!
Wednesday night the rest of the incoming sophomores registered for classes, but we've been having a lot of trouble with our internet connection in Featherman so most of the people went over to Alfond where there's wireless internet. I stayed in the Featherman first floor lounge because we have wireless there too. I hung out down there for about three hours with my friends waiting for midnight to roll along.
Registering for classes is a race. It honestly puts your typing skills to the test because if you don't type in your class numbers fast enough someone could beat you out for the last seat in a class that you need. I'm embarassed to admit that for about twenty minutes I was practicing typing in the numbers so that I could send in my requests as quickly as possible. At 11:55 I signed in to U-Online. Your advisor will give you an "Alternate Pin" which is the last thing that you have to type in before typing in your class numbers. So I typed my alternate pin in at 11:59 so that I could press enter once it was 12:00. So I'm sitting there on the couch in the lounge at 11:59 and I didn't press anything or touch anything, but it signed me in for some reason and I started freaking out because you can't be signed in before midnight, so I had to close the screen and reboot it all. I closed it down and then opened a new page to get back as fast as I could. Then the clock changed and said midnight, and everyone signed in all at once so the internet was going as slow as ever. It ended up taking me four minutes to get to where I needed. Needless to say I didn't get into one of my classes, Abnormal Psychology. I was so bummed out, but at least I got into all of the others.
Sometimes if you can't get into a class that you need, you can go to the professor or the head of the department and they can override it for you, but from what I've heard, none of the psychology classes are allowed to be overridden.

This weekend is Easter so I've been home for the past two and a half days. I've seen most of my family, but I'll see the rest tomorrow. Yesterday was Good Friday, so I went to see the "All...I Have Done For You" play that my brother and sister were in. Last night I went to the movies with my cousin and my friend. We saw the Hannah Montana movie. It was not terrible, surprisingly, but I wouldn't pay another $8.50 to see it again. Today I went to play ultimate frisbee with my cousins and a bunch of other people who are regulars at our weekly frisbee games in the summer. It was pouring so we were all soaked and my hands felt like they were going to fall off. Tonight I'm going to the movies again, but this time to see Adventureland? I haven't heard much about that movie, but we'll see I guess. I can't wait for the Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow at my Meme and Pepe's. Wish me luck in finding the Bonus Egg!!

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Assisi Hall next year! I don't know what floor I am going to be living on yet, but at RA training on Sunday they told us what building we'd be living in. So if any of you freshmen know that you will be living in Assisi in the fall, I might be your RA. I'm really excited about having this job. It's a lot of work, but I think that it will be rewarding too. I'm really excited to make door decs and bulletin boards for my residents. My friend at UNH is also going to be an RA so we'll probably be talking and collaborating quite a bit throughout the next year.

On Thursday at 12 a.m. I will be registering for my fall classes. I'm a little nervous about it because some of the classes I want to get into may already be full. I made myself a mock schedule with the classes that I want, and I made it so that I have Mondays and Wednesdays off. Now I'm rethinking that because I have Tuesdays off now and I feel very unproductive on those days usually. I don't think I want to feel unproductive two days out of the week. I also want to minor in Psychology, so I have to take into account that I'll have to add a class or two to my schedules starting very soon. I think it will be better to get those classes out of the way now while my schedule is still pretty light. I have to take Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology, Human Traditions (English or History), Intro to OT (which I am very excited for), Social/Cultural Context of Human Development, and Abnormal Psychology (which I am also very excited for).

I can't believe there are only three and a half more weeks left of my freshman year. It went by so qiuckly, but I am really excited for the summer because I have a lot planned. I will be working at my old job at the rehab, but I'm also planning on travelling back out to Oregon to visit Nawwal again. My host-sister from Germany is coming to stay with me for two weeks at the end of July into August and we're going to my cottage on Prince Edward Island. And at the end of August I will be moving back to school a week and a half or so earlier than everyone else to get the dorms ready and for some more training.

Hope to see many of you in the fall!

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Hey everyone!
It's been pretty busy around here lately, but I wanted to update you on some new stuff going on. I went home last weekend for my friend's birthday. We played laser tag and went out for dinner. It was the first time I'd ever been laser tagging so that was really cool. Saturday I went out for the day with my mom. We did a lot of shopping, and then I went to see my brother and sister in the Easter passion play that my grandfather directs. Sunday morning I went out for breakfast with two of my friends from high school and came back to school later on to go to a meeting. This week has been election week for the clubs that I'm in, so I was elected PR Rep for Hall Council, I was nominated for Co-President of SHAC (but as an RA I can't be a president of any club), and I was elected Co-Managing Editor of the Nor'easter News, which is our school's newspaper in case you didn't know.
This past weekend was also Housing Selection. I didn't have to worry about it because the Area Coordinators just tell me where I'm living, but all of my friends had to go through the process. Apparently it didn't work out quite the way they had anticipated, but they are all reasonably happy with where they ended up. Two of my friends are in Featherman again next year and the other four are in Freddy. They could apply for a room change to get a 6-person suite in Champlain (the old South), but I don't know what the plan is for sure.
Right now I'm drowning in homework, but that's because finals are only a couple of weeks away and my teachers are cramming stuff in at this point. I have a research paper as well as an argument paper that I'm working on for english, we are having an in-class essay test on Wednesday that I have to make a quotation sheet for, and I have a chem/phys exam on Monday. It's going to be another busy weekend.
My friend, Kayleigh, is getting her car this weekend. Her mom is driving it down, so we will finally be able to go off campus without having to wait for the bus. I am so excited for that, and then Sunday is RA Training day, so from 1-5 I will be finding out where I am going to live and meeting the people I will be working with. Gotta go to class now!

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