20 Things I’ve learned this summer:

1. How little I’ve prepared for life after school.
2. How talented I’ve become at procrastinating.
3. How amazing it feels to have friends that I can go pour my heart out to and to know they feel like they can do the same with me.
4. How much more difficult it is to deal with stress when I don’t get any sleep.
5. How friendships that I thought would last forever can fade away as people grow up and their lives change.
6. How I have figured out exactly what I want in some areas of my life yet I am still so clueless in others.
7. How it really feels to wait on God to show me an answer.
8. How incredible it is to know people who can laugh at situations that would bring me to my knees.
9. How weak I still am and how much I lack in the faith and perseverance department when things get tough.
10. How much it hurts to know that I let down someone I really care about unintentionally.
11. How frustrating it is to know that I can’t fix it.
12. How funny timing can be and how much it can change the course of my life.
13. How the bar exam is something I shouldn’t take lightly.
14. How much God can speak to me through other people if I just put myself around the right people.
15. How fast my appearance can go downhill when I sit inside for 3 weeks and do nothing but study and eat.
16. How crazy it is to have spent 4/5 of my life working for something and then when I get there find it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
17. How much of a relief it is to have the type of friends that will still love me when I don’t feel like being nice or cheerful.
18. How changing the way I think really can change my quality of life.
19. How the thought of not becoming a lawyer doesn’t seem that devastating to me anymore.
20. How I can survive anything with some prayer and some help from my friends. :)

It's sink or swim time..

Hey guys, don't really have time to write much, but I wanted to let you know I wasn't dead. The bar exam starts next Monday, July 24th. It is 3 days long, and goes pretty much from 8:30 to 5 each day. I will be tested on 6 to 8 subjects a day; 2 days of essay, one day of multiple choice. Needless to say, I need the all the prayers I can get because I have yet to figure out how to fit that much information into my tiny brain. I won't find out for months if I passed and when I do I might not want to talk about it..please God don't let that be the case. So if sometime around November you see me and I'm 30 pounds heavier, jobless and have a dozen cats, you'll know what happened. Love you guys.