Still Having Fun

Have I mentioned lately how much fun I'm having?
Do you know that feeling you get when you are really excited about something...it starts in your stomach and works its way up, it feels kind of like going down a big hill on a roller coaster except not quite as strong (and it happens when your feet are planted firmly on solid ground)
Think back to Christmas morning when you were a kid, or the day before you are leaving on a fabulous vacation.
Do you know the feeling I'm talking about?
Well, I keep getting that feeling and its because I love what I'm doing. I am excited every day to go to school, I love my classes, and I love all of the cool stuff I get to do with student government and all of the people I get to interact with.

Does anyone remember that game shop back in the 70's where they would put a person in a glass room with money blowing all over and they had a certain amount of time to grab all they could? Well I feel like I'm in that kind of situation. I'm here for a certain amount of time and I am trying to stuff all of the knowledge I can into my head. Sometimes I think I hurry so fast that some of it falls back out while I'm busy collecting more. I don't just mean my classes either, they're great, but also just the people I'm around. I love to watch people, ( sorry if that weirds you out or makes you nervous) I spend a lot of time thinking about why they do the things they do and act the way the do. I am learning ways to improve myself by watching others around me.
I think it is especially fascinating, and enlightening to watch people who are very different from me. If I have a particular weakness, I observe people who are strong in that area and try to learn from them.

As far as things go with my classes, the geology exam turned out great. Thanks to the wonderful world of extra credit I actually got higher than 100% even though I missed several questions...I love it when that happens. I'm happy with the outcomes of both of the exams I took this week also. AND....guess what?! I don't have any exams this week...YEA!!! This means I might have time to work on my research paper for my FCHD class.

Friday morning I went up to the Logan campus. I went to a lunch put on by Psi Chi which is the honor society for psych majors.
http://www.usu.edu/psychology/psichi/
They have agreed to let me be one of them. (I actually did apply to join.) I'd like to know what anyone else out there in cyber-world thinks about honor societies in general. Are they useful or just a waste of time and money? I had one (that will remain un-named) that pursued me so ambitiously that it felt more like I was being chased by a multi-level-marketing maniac. I figured that if they wanted me more than I wanted them that it was probably not worth my time, oh, and they also wanted $75. I joined Psi Chi because they did NOT actively recruit me and I heard membership looks nice on a resume. What do you think?