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Updates!

Oh man blog readers I'm sorry I've neglected you the past two weeks! So many updates!

First and foremost:
I chose Utah State University for grad school and accepted their offer of an emphasis in Listening and Spoken Language! Not just because of the massive amount of tuition help/stipend/job opportunities, but because I'd get to work with adorable little kids and it's actually really interesting. And I have an audiologist at my fingertips to call for help! Yay siblings! I love ears! Especially widdle kid ones - so cute. Anyway. It's a really great program, I'm already in love with the professors there and have been talking on the phone/e-mailing constantly with them (most helpful/sweet people on the face of the planet), and googling Utah like a madwoman.
Some pictures of my new campus...not gonna lie, I'm kind of digging the change from the Boston skyline:




Mountain's majesty indeed.

Secondly:
That means in exactly 1 month and 2 weeks I'll be moving 3,000 miles across the country. Exactly 21 hours from Saint Louis in the opposite direction. Funny...I moved 21 hours east, now I'm moving 21 hours west. Next up: 21 hours north. HELLO, CANADA! Just kidding, eh?

Thirdly:
There might be another big change coming soon but I don't want to jinx it. If it happens...be assured it'll be the center of my blogging.

Fourthly:
COLLEGIATE NATIONALS IN ONE WEEK!!!! Have I trained enough? Am I ready? Should I stop eating so many cookies? I don't know! But I'm excited!

And of course it's sunny and gorgeous and there's no wind and it'd be perfect running/biking weather but I'm off to my internship until tonight. Nuts.

Love,
me

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