Prideful and Prejudiced... haha

I stole this from my cousin Allison's blog:

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Heh, I thought I would end up being Elinor Dashwood. Who knew?

What American Accent do you have?

I took this quiz out of curiosity and just laughed at the results. Who knew?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The South   That's a Southern accent you've got there. You may love it, you may hate it, you may swear you don't have it, but whatever the case, we can hear it.
The Midland
The West
North Central
The Inland North
Boston
Philadelphia
The Northeast
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Don't Panic!

For some reason this just seemed fitting in my recent search for graduate school programs. The search, however, has been entertaining. I've found a couple that I'm really excited about. The programs I've been looking at are either Integrated Marketing Communication (generally a mix of ad and pr) or advertising creative programs. The most interesting, by far, has been at (drum roll please) FSU. They have a really neat program under the healm of int. mar. comm. with an emphasis in digital marketing communication. Pre-reqs for the program included a familiarity with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver (yea for the BYU PR program which makes learning these REQUIRED), etc. Needless to say I'm applying. The really good news has been that most deadlines aren't until July. The only exception so far has been Boston University, which also has a really neat program, so I was a little bummed about that.

Anyway, I've been slowly wittling down a rather lengthy list of schools with programs in communications. Most of the schools were on the East Coast. There were hardly any on the West (?), which I thought was kind of weird. But oh well. As long as there's a coast, I think I'm pretty cool with anywhere (with the exception of Chicago... I could do Chicago). For some reason living in a landlock state as a single freaks me out. I have in my head one of those images of the United States taken at night where you can see all the lights of the cities. It's really bright on all the coasts but as you get more and more in the middle it gets really dark. Only in my mind the lights don't represent cities... they're my marriage options. Okay, okay, paranoia. Whatev. I'm sticking with coastal states.

That, I think, has been the hilight of the week. Oh, and Pere took me to the gym. My body hurt for three days. I might start speaking with him again tomorrow, but we'll see (I think my calves might still be holding grudges). That was the other hilight. More to come next week...

Spanish and Econ and Internships, oh my!

Ah, so the big news it about two weeks ago I decided it wasn't worth it to minor in Spanish (I already have a minor in business), so I withdrew from my two Spanish classes. It was utterly and completely liberating. The past two weeks have been (in the words of Billy Crystal) MAH-VELOUS! I still have economics and my internship class, but I now have PLENTY of time to take care of those.

With all my free time I decided to finally join a club on campus (meh, 5th year at BYU, figured it was time to start feeling a little school spirit). So I've joined the Asian Cinema Club. Every few weeks the club gets permission to show an Asian film on campus for free. And before you start thinking "anime," the films we watch are popular Asian films that, for the most part, just haven't been seen in the U.S. The first two we've seen I highly recommend (if you can get a hold of them): "Love on a Diet" and "Be With You." Both are just really cute, well-made, movies (both with around a PG rating). So, essentially, every few weeks I go and watch a quality, free movie and "participate" in a club with no required committments (money/time) from me. My kind of club (woot, woot!).

My free time I'm also hoping to fill in with grad school applications. First on the list is to, um, make a list. I've only checked out one program so I need to see what else is out there and then get a move on with applications. Meanwhile I also have to study for and take the GRE and find an internship for the summer. The beautiful thing is I also don't know where I want to do an internship. I really want to see what places I might enjoy living in. My aunt used to live in Seattle and, although I've ruled out California, I would like to check out Seattle. I LOVE rain, so that won't be a problem. :-) So Seattle is at the top of my list followed by D.C., New York and Chicago. I'll probably end up applying to 5 or so in Seattle and 5 or so in D.C. and see if there are any takers. So my time is very quickly filling up, but at least it's filling up with things I actually want to do.

Things are wrapping up at the ol' BYU, which is both frightening and exciting at the same time. It's funny how until now I never considered what would happen after college. Now it's something I definitely have to consider, worry about, ponder, decide, etc. But it's also pretty neat to sit back and realize, "hm, ya know? I really could do whatever I wanted!" The opportunities are immense. The next few months will be quite the experience!