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The End of An Era

Well. I really have been putting this off, since it is the last hoorah, the grand finale, the final post, the end of an era if you will...

Freshman year is over, and honestly I do not like that one bit! Obviously, I'm glad exams are over and I'm glad the stress of the year is over, but I feel like I just moved in!! I was just getting used to living in the attic, the hall baths, the laundry, the library, mastering the art of just how late I can sleep in to still make it to class on time. All these things have become a part of a routine I've gotten into. More than that, though, I've gotten used to being around some of the best people ever! I'm going to miss being able to walk maybe 10 steps to go see Blythe. I'm going to miss being within about 2 minutes of all my friends! It is going to be very strange being without all these people and things I've grown accustomed to over the past 9ish months!

So to stray from the sentimental side, I'll tell you how the year ended up and what to expect in the weeks and months to come...

I survived exam week oh-10. Barely, but I did. I stayed up one too many times within the last two weeks of school, and I spent a whole day in tears (I'd say because of the lack of sleep and my ever present trait of procrastination). I lost it in the middle of my chemistry exam. That was attractive and I'm sure uncomfortable to those in the room with me. Similar situation to the girl who was behind me when I feel in front of Springs? I think so. Anyway.

Biology. I honestly don't think I am a biology major anymore. I think I've realized I was more attracted to the title of "Dr." than I was to the actual schooling and commitment it takes to earn it. Of course, I'm not completely giving up on the idea, but I am actively seeking other alternatives. Religion major? Maybe. Still a biology major? More than likely, nope.

As you readers may or may not know, I enjoy a good excursion during exam week. Last semester it was a trip to see Christmas lights. This semester... a trip to Greenville to get my cartilage pierced. I took Anna with me, therefore, some of the blame can be placed on her. My reasoning is threefold:

1. I'm going to be a camp counselor this summer. This is going to greatly help my image.

2. I kind of feel like I'm going through a midlife crisis, but at a much earlier age... old men get new cars, I get a new piercing.

3. I'm a freshman in college, this will probably come out come senior year when it is time to look for a job.

So. Exam week vs. Sarah. It was a close fight at times, but I think I ended up on top.

So what's coming up in the future?

I leave for camp in 2ish weeks. I will be without much technology, so blogging will take a back burner. Just kidding! Of course I can't let these experiences go untold, so I'm starting a new blog!! How exactly I'm going to manage the blogging is still up in the air. It will happen though, don't you worry! I'll post the link to my new blog on here and on my facebook once it's up and running.

I hate to end this post, because with it kind of officially marks the end to my freshman year. It's been fun! I know I've enjoyed myself! There's more to come... more weird situations, more funny stories, three more years at PC. (I'm saying all of this more as assurance for myself, not so much for yall)

One down. Three to go.

Peace and Love.

Just found this in the drafts..

So I was looking through old posts, and came across a story I never shared on the blog.

Embarrassing moment #547 of the year:

ADPi had an eat-a-thon at Steamers in Clinton one night several months ago. A portion of the proceeds went to Ronald McDonald House, ADPi's philanthropy. So. Callie Neal, yes I blame Callie, had these McDonald's Halloween costumes. One was a thing of fries and one was a milkshake, both displaying the McDonald's logo. Callie thought it would be a great idea for us to wear these to said event in order to play up our philanthropy. Why she even had these here I school, I have no idea. So, we go to Steamers. I refused to wear the costume, at this point I had been appointed milkshake, throughout dinner. So we finished eating, and Callie told me it was time for our plan to go into action. So we went out to her car, threw on these treasures, and headed for the door to make a grand entrance.

Here we are in these costumes

The place was packed! Not just with ADPis, but other people also. Looking back on the situation, I honestly don't know what reaction I was expecting when I walked through the door. Well. We walked in. People just stared. No reaction whatsoever. Just stared for a few long seconds and went back to eating. Awkward...

This describes how we both felt after the incident...

Me, embarrassed. Callie, not really phased.

April Fools!!!!

Well, April Fools snuck up on me. Luckily I was able to get in on a well-established prank. Some of you may have seen in an earlier blog post the prank involving a dollar bill on the sidewalk. Well, it was back in action today!

The set up:

A room on the first floor, compliments of Elizabeth Nickles.

A dollar with a hole in it and a string attached.

A person who is willing to keep running outside to reset the trap.

A camera.

So many people fell for it! It was great!

(You may want to scroll down and turn off the music to fully enjoy these...)

This is the BEST!!! A girl rode by on a bike. I said, "wouldn't it be hilarious if she turned around?" Well. She did. Parked her bike and hopped off to be a dollar richer. We yanked it away, bless her heart! She then heard us laughing and saw me with my camera. She told me to put the video on youtube. I assured her it would be on my blog. I spoke this through tears.

Best. One. Yet.

And she offered to put the dollar back in place. Bless her heart!

New updates:

-Housing sign up happened today. I will be living in the same dorm, just one floor down. I'm excited, however I feel that 3 flights of stairs will still tire me. Whatevs, maybe by senior year I'll be on ground level.

-I'm home for Easter break! I packed at the last minute, as I always do. What did I forget to bring home this time? Oh, just makeup.

-OH! I found out today that I will be a camp counselor at Lutheridge this summer!!! I'm just so excited!! Things to do:

1. Order Chacos. Those shoes are ugly, but I have heard I need these to fit in.

2. Buy some bandannas and some hats.

3. Stock up on nike shorts and t-shirts!

4. Buy a new pair of tennis shoes.

5. Work on cutting back my shower time from approximately 20 minutes to anywhere from 0-7 minutes.

That's all for now!! This weekend is Easter, and I'm just SO excited!!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

**Remember, after Sunday you can whip out your white!!!**

"But I REALLY can't play basketball!"

Just because you are born with the gift of height does not mean you are born with the gift of coordination or athleticism.

Example. Today I went from the library to the gym to support ADPi's intramural basketball team. So I walked in, looked at our opponent and thought to myself that we better have a good team together because those girls were fierce. So not all the ADPis showed up that were supposed to play. Who gets roped into playing? That's right friends. Me. Who doesn't have not only any basketball experience, but also no experience on any sort of organized team at all? Yep. That's me too. The reasoning behind my being on this team? Twofold. One: I was wearing appropriate clothing. Two: I'm tall. I tried to explain to my fellow ADPis how inadequately prepared I am, but no success. I threw on a ripe smelling jersey and went to it. So. To review:

1. No basketball experience.

2. No coordination.

3. No concept of the rules or purpose of the game of basketball.

The game started. I was appointed to go head to head to try to gain possession of the ball. I want to say this is called tipping off, but I'm not too sure. Being the tallest one on the court, I was given this premo task by default. I could have told you this was a bad idea, but at this point, I had stopped trying to convey the fact that I was essentially worthless to the team. I had decided to roll with it. As you can imagine, I did not gain ADPi possession of the ball. My time on the court was limited to maybe 2 minutes. I kept the bench warm for the remainder of the game.

ADPi lost. I'm wondering if I'm now permanently on the team! Dear goodness, I hope not!

People have always told me that I should play basketball or volleyball, just based off the fact that I'm tall. Well, I would invite those people to come and watch this next game that I will very possibly be playing in, and they will quickly take back those words.

Lesson today... Never go to watch an intramural game if you are wearing exercise clothes or tennis shoes. You will be forced to play and you will not be able to weasel your way out.

Pretty....

"Pretty Pin Attire this week goes to Sarah Derrick," said Anna! SO exciting!! See, Anna is ADPi's director of standards, meaning she make sure everyone keeps it together. Every Tuesday we have to dress up and look pretty for ADPi. Well, every week at chapter, Anna gives out a Pretty Pin Attire award. The name of this award is self explanatory. So I had just given up on ever getting this high honor, because I mean, its not like she's going to give it to her sister! However, I still tried to look nice every week, for the sake of Alpha Delta Pi. So this week- I must say I did love the dress I was wearing- I was just sitting in chapter, Anna got up to do her weekly thing, and she announced that I had gotten the Pretty Pin Attire award!!!! So exciting!!!!!! What a great Tuesday! Here's a recent picture taken of myself with sweet Anna:

Yeah, we were matching. Straight up twins.

Well, its time for me to get to studying Old Testament! You would think that having a pastor in the house would give me some sort of advantage in this class, but so far that has proven to be false.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Peace and Love!

March is coming in like a lamb!

... hopefully someone else did that activity in elementary school. You always had to predict how the beginning of March was going to be..

Anyway. Glad Jack Frost peaced out a week late. Here we are back at school and its so nice outside! If it weren't totally inappropriate I would be laying out between classes!

So today amongst this marvelous warm front, Blythe and I decided to take a walk around campus. Now if you're a veteran follower of my blog, you may remember the last time I took a stroll around campus. The birds took aim on me, if you will. But I am glad to report no such occurrences happened this time! I just love this weather! With it comes Jack Rogers, spring pin attire, and EASTER! Love it!

Oh, so the other night we watched Julie& Julia when I was home. As most of you probably know, its about a girl who has a heck of a blog! So much so that they ended up making a movie about it! That needs to be me. So start writing letters all you faithful blog followers! Paramount, Dreamworks, Disney, MGM, Warner Brothers. GET ON IT! Send in some samples of my work perhaps..? Thanks so much!

Worst. Packer. Ever.

SPRING BREAKK!!!!

This week is spring break!!!! Although it snowed here in Lexington while I was at the beach. Spring? Maybe not. Regardless. The future suite, aka Blythe, Callie, Emma, and me, headed down to Seabrook for the first part of the week!

So we were on our way down to the beach, and all of the sudden I realized I had left my boots at home. The more I thought about it, not only did I leave my boots, I left all shoes at home! And I was wearing black flats. Good. This was shaping up to be a very pretty week for outfits!

We stopped at Myabi on the way down for dinner! Mmmmmm! By the way, I love me some hibachi! So anyway, we got down there and unloaded our food for the week...

Good thing it was too cold to lay out, because this spring break diet was not conducive to my being in a bathing suit (which I forgot, anyway...)!

So we enjoyed days of watching movies and being lazy! Monday Kate came to visit and we headed into Charleston!! SO exciting! We hit up King Street, obviously. I didn't get ANYTHING in Charleston! So sad! We went on a mad hunt for Callie's cup dress! We ended up in Mt. Pleasant, but I was determined to make it back to The Battery in Charleston for some pictures! And we made it, barely...

There wasn't anyone around for us to pawn our cameras off on, so we had to rotate who was in pictures.

Also, I have every intention of living in Charleston when I'm older! Preferably, but not limited to, on the battery! I LOVE that city! My children can work the carriage routes, or sell roses on the streets. Its whatever. But I will live there.

So that was Spring Break! The highlights at least! I now have the rest of the week to get excited about the work that awaits me, and hopefully get a head start on some of it!

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Gal 2:20

2 More Days!!!

I just have to make it 48 more hours, 3 more tests to go, and I will be officially on Spring Break!!! I am so excited!! As you can imagine, this week has been eventful, as far as school goes. Not so much my life. Anyway. So Monday. I had a biology test. Let's just keep in mind that on my first test I made a less than desirable grade. So it was high time for me to step it up! Well Sunday, when it was so so pretty outside, while everyone was taking walks, sitting around outside, taking in the great day... I was in the library. Yep. It was a slim crowd for awhile there, and let me just say I was booking it through some plants. It was great. Well then we had some ADPi stuff, I had to go to dinner, so it was later on when I was able to get back in the library. At this point, my zeal for learning had decreased. But anyway, I persevered. Around 2:30am, I was nowhere near done, so I figured I'd just stay in the library. 3:30 came, 4:30, 5:30... Finally at 6:00 I decided to go back to my room. Mainly because it was getting a little chilly in the library. I had taken a small nap on the back of my chair in the library, but at this point I had gotten little to no sleep. So I got in my room, pulled up my powerpoint, and still tried to take in as much information as possible. At some point I fell asleep for like 30 minutes, but around 9:30 I decided to get out of my bed and go take this test. It wasn't too bad. In fact, I ended up making an 80 on it! Which is pretty good!

But I got out of the test, came up to Blythe's room, and fell asleep in her chair. Now apparently, at some point I woke up and looked at her roommate and freaked out because I thought I had missed my test. She didn't know if I had or not, so she told me to go check my schedule, so I walked to my room and went back to Blythe's room and fell back asleep in her chair. Then, a little later, Blythe came in and woke me up. Again, I freaked out because I thought I had missed the test. Apparently I really do care about biology! Lesson learned from this experience is twofold: 1. Do not wait until the night before to study. and 2. Get sleep, or you will do weird things.

So that's pretty much it. All my recent stories lately involve the library or something. I need a new hobby. I'm just so excited about Spring Break! Like it really couldn't come at a better time. I have not one, not two, but three things of dirty clothes that I have been putting off washing. So Mom, if you read this, I will hopefully be sending those home with Anna on Friday :)

Hope everyone has a good rest of the week!

Peace and Love

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

Well Hey.

So its been awhile. As it usually is this time of the semester, my life is hectic! I am asking myself yet again why it is exactly that I am not only taking biology, but also chemistry. Whatever. I'm sure it will all work out, as it always does.

What an eventful few weeks it has been! We had out first event of the year for ADPi! Semiformal!! SO exciting!! Want to see a picture? Thought so.

This is my diamond family. They are precious! It has become a new thing this semester for us to have weekly family dinners as prepared by me. The past 2 weeks I have made some tasty creations: spanikopita and some tasty chicken pasta with a homemade tomato cream sauce. It has been a delicious couple of weeks if I do say so myself!

So the weekend after semiformal was KA's Convivium! I LOVE a good reason to get dressed up! Again, here's a picture!

These are all the ADPis that were there... it was a precious group!

So the day/night of Convivium... everything in my life was out of commission. Ok, so maybe I'm being a tad dramatic, but really. My phone quit working mid-day, just as I was trying to get all the plans under control for the night! But whatever, I texted people from Blythe's phone. Inconvenient? A little, but still doable! Well convivium came and was very fun! So afterwards I went back up to my room to change out of my formal dress into something a little more manageable for going out in! I decided to stop by the senior townhouses because I heard some people were going there before they went out to the house. Well, it would have been helpful to have a phone at this point to see if people were there or not, but I went on over there. There weren't any parking spots so I pulled into the grass. I went to the door and no one was there, so I went back to may car to go on to the house. It had been a rainy day in Clinton, SC. The ground was a little muddy. So I went to back up out of the grass and my car didn't move. At all. I tried going forwards and backwards. Nothing. My car was smoking because I was pressing the gas so hard. So this was great! No phone and a stuck car. So I got out of my car to go over to some other ADPi's townhouse and out of nowhere these 3 sketchy guys appeared! They asked if I needed help. I kindly refused and walked as fast as I could to the other townhouse. Anyway, this story goes on and on about my night sans car or phone. It was bad news! But I am happy to report that I now have a new phone as well as a freed car!

I can't think of much else to say right now. Oh, if you are an ADPi Eta Xi alum, keep your eyes open for the launch of a blog just for you in the very near future! Excited? You should be.

Oh, I have my interview on Wednesday to work at Lutheridge this summer! Yay!! Hopefully it will go well! I think I have camp counselor written all over me! Keep your fingers crossed!

"We also rejoice in our sufferings, for sufferings bring perseverance, perseverance, character and character; hope." Romans 5:4

"Creation's revealing Your majesty"

Isn't it cool how God can be seen everywhere? This weekend was winter conference! I don't know, there's just something about being in the mountains that makes me so aware of God's great power!! Usually, I think of God being seen and revealed through his word and through people we come into contact with, but I think being away from the hustle and bustle (yes, even Clinton has that) and being in a place where there is such beauty and grandness just makes you so aware of God's creativity and magnificence! To me, seeing the amazing beauty makes me know that while science can come up with so very many explanations as to how exactly this Earth was formed, there is absolutely no way any combination of random particles could have come together without the hand of God creating it all.

And, while creation can be thought of in simply a past tense, I think creation isn't just something that happened thousands, millions, or billions of years ago. Creation is something that is still happening today. God has his hands in our lives and specially takes time to mold and shape us into those he wants us to be. God sees the same beauty in us that we see in the mountains. They are all beautiful, unique creations, just as we are. That is something I need to remember. God created me specifically and specially.

So, now would be a great time to show you some pictures, but I didn't take any. I'm not used to having a camera.

Additionally. This weekend. One of the BIGGEST highlights outside the conference was the J. Crew factory store. Oh. My. Gosh. All I have to say is 4 shirts for $44! I was so pumped! I had an armful of clothes and Anna looks at me and goes, "Sarah, are you really getting all that?" and I said, "Anna, how can you NOT have this much?!" She said, "before I buy things I think 'do I really need this?" So I thought. Did I really need these clothes? Ummmmm. Yes. 4 shirts for $44. Done.

But, this weekend was great! Its nice to get away for a weekend to regroup.

This week brings with it 2 tests, one being chemistry. Please say a little prayer for me, as Dionne Warwick would do.

That's all for now!

Peace and Love!

To be, or not to be?

So, this time every semester (although I've only been in college for a semester and a few weeks, I'll go ahead and say every semester) I have this breakdown as to what I'm going to do with my life. I've always wanted to do something in the medical profession, and due to personal experiences, I decided to go into medicine to become a pediatric rheumatologist. Well, after a semester and a few weeks in college, I am slowly... rapidly, actually... realizing my dislike for biology. Really. I can't stand it! And throw in chemistry on top of it! Kill me now!! I don't know if I don't like it because of what we are primarily studying right now, plants and other things hardly relating to my interests, or if because I really don't enjoy the whole biology thing. So last night, over the stomach bug that is running rampant around PC, I starting thinking about what it is that I truly want to do. And I've come to the conclusion, I honestly have no idea. I think the main reason why I wanted to go into medicine was to be a support and friend for those who are going through pretty unfortunate circumstances, but let's be honest, so so much more comes along with being a doctor! And, I'll just go ahead and say that its pretty darn intimidating having a room full of biology majors, and the majority of them saying they want to go to medical school. Realistically, not everyone can get in. Anyway, I know that I don't have to know what I'm going to do today, I just don't do well in the face of uncertainty.

This blog isn't going to end with some grand realization, as badly as I want it to, but instead with me making a new career goal: to keep an open mind about my future, and to go into something that I truly love!

Back to the Books!

Well, I'm back at PC!!!! I've missed this special place! I really think I've missed the bathroom and 4 flights of stairs the most!

So I've decided to set a new-semester's resolution! I'm going to get my work done earlier than usual, and limit my library visits to only the times I actually have work to do. Plus, I'm going to be prepared for all my classes by reading things before class instead of after as I frantically try to keep up! Oh, and I'm going to be all over some notecards! I feel like if I stick to this, my grades can only improve!

Currently, I'm in my room studying for biology. Already? Yes. I'm trying to finish a chapter in the book before tomorrow with reading notes.

Earlier today, with the help of half my hall, I got my bed lifted! So I now have places to store all the clutter that was all over my side of the room! It was a pretty difficult endeavor seeing as how collectively we are a pretty weak group.

Its supposed to SNOW tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!! That would be so exciting!!! I'm keeping everything possible crossed. I'm even thinking of wearing a braid tomorrow. Just think of the fun pictures you dedicated viewers could see if this were to happen!! I would encourage all of you to keep positive thoughts as well.

So that's all. I now have to get back to my studies. My new motto for the semester: "Study now, play later!"

I hope all of you get to experience a winter wonderland this week!

Peace and Love!