Hey everybody!
Today we had our work study party! There was so much good food and it was nice to get together and hangout once and a while since I don't usually get to see all the work study students very often. Plus its not bad getting paid to eat either. Actually I found out that one of my work study friends is staying here for the summer to take summer classes! This was pretty exciting since I was thinking about spending the summer here too to find an internship and take some classes but I was worried about spending all my time alone since no one else would be here. But now I know some people staying in the area so it might be really fun! It will also take a lot of stress off of my senior year which will be nice.
This is the last week of classes! Yay! Luckily for me I worked really hard the week before Thanksgiving to get ahead in my projects so I'm not even that stressed at the moment! I even had time to get all of my Christmas shopping done this weekend! I have a HUGE family so Christmas shopping is a long process but my friend and I went to the outlets on Sunday and I'm finished! Things are looking up for the end of the year! Talk to you later!

Only three weeks left!!! Ahhh!! I can't believe the end of the semester is upon us so quickly! And its even more weird for me since I won't be coming back here at the end of Christmas break! I absolutely cannot wait to go abroad though so I'm not too upset about it, even though it will be sad to leave all of my friends behind who are not coming with me. It's pretty busy here for the next two weeks since all our final projects are due.. I have two big projects left to finish and then we get the last week, finals week, just to go over and redo any projects we weren't satisfied with over the semester. So the last week isn't as bad as the next two. On top of the last two projects we have our big end of the year party! This party is really fun and a great chance to see what all the other design departments have been working on. Every major in the warehouse and all of the faculty get together to celebrate the end of the year and there is also a competition! Every year faculty hand out the "gnomes awards." Basically, each faculty member has a little gnome that they award to a project they consider the best for any category they choose, this could be anywhere from presentation, to creativity, to something as simple as line weight. So what all the students do is get out their best project and display it on our desks in hopes of finding a little garden gnome on our desk by the end of the night. Haha It's slightly random but you would be surprised at how coveted a garden gnome can become.