Another Comment:

I posted a comment on Almost Famous' blog called "Friends for the Rest of College?" today:

This is a great topic to post about, because for most students our age, the change to college meant the biggest change of best friends you've ever experienced (because of the locational change of course). I still keep in contact with a lot of my old friends and hung out with them over Thanksgiving, but for the most part the set of people that know most about what's going on with me and the ones I spend my weekends with right now are my new SMU friends. And I never really considered until I read your post that these new friends of mine are totally not set in stone either. 

And I know everyone wants to have the perfect situations like the television shows (Friends, Sex and the City, etc.) but the truth is that you can't always be with your "besties" forever because life might take you somewhere else. However, I think it's important to value the friends that you make along the way and just enjoy the people you're around in the present and not worry too much about the future.

"God will help you overcome any hardship."

So after practicing my trumpet, piano, and singing ALL of my Thanksgiving break in preparation for my semester juries I returned to school feeling so responsible and great for having kept my work ethic up. However, the first day back I came to the realization that I am TOTALLY swamped with other things to do: papers to write, music to write, a debate to prepare for, workbook pages to do, chapters to read, and a fire safety class to attend. Geez this week was really stacking up in my planner more than it usually does! And I found out that I have 2 finals on the day of my birthday and then 2 more after that, which was disappointing because I just got through telling my parents that I'll be home again soon on my birthday. 

The Saturday I came back to campus I had a football that I had to play at for marching band and I also had to continue to prepare for a very physically and mentally taxing trumpet playing test for Monday's Masterclass and finish up some music theory homework. On Monday my day lasted from 8AM (my first class) until 9PM (the end of Masterclass) with only 2 hours of break in there. And of course there was lots of homework to keep me up for a while after that. Tuesday was a little bit better only lasting from 8AM to 6PM, with 1 hour of break (my other 1 hour was used to attend a mandatory fire safety class) and of course lots more homework at the end of that day. Today lasted from 8AM to 6PM, with a 2 hour break (1 hour was used for a trumpet lesson) and a terrible scheduling error sent me running across campus all the way from where I work to McFarlin Auditorium in the middle of my day, because I wrote down an incorrect time for my conference and missed it entirely! UGH! 

However at the end of today I got a chance to squeeze in a second to sit down and have a nice dinner with some friends. And the thing I do everyday is get a fortune cookie and today my fortune read:

"God will help you overcome any hardship."

This usually lame or funny fortune cookie gave me the best advice I could hear at the time. It is something I always know to be true, but need to be reminded from time to time. I taped it to the front of my over-booked planner where it is needed most ha ha :) 

Hopefully I can remember this while running around like a crazy person tomorrow as you all should too!! Good luck with finals, juries, recitals, debates, papers, and whatever else you are taking on everyone :)