Anyways to catch up on life, Adam and I have been married for 8 months (wow has it really been that long already!?), we're still leading Young Life, and I am a senior at the U of O. Today's post is about the wonderful journey of college.

I am really bad at not freaking out, really bad. Once I'm calm, everything is ok and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but initially, everything is chaos....

God works in crazy ways, ways that we don't ever see coming, and it is life changing and wonderful. I'm really bad at accepting and walking into those doors. I guess I'm just scared to not be in control in my life and have it my way. This has been an ongoing challenge with me and God, but I'm trying to get better since I know the outcome is always best and my plans suck, for reals.

Anyways, I'm a senior, I have had my graduation plan this whole year. I have been planning to walk in the Spring, and then finish in August taking my last couple classes in the summer. Class schedule sign ups were last week, and last weekend I tried to do my schedule. Since the summer classes I would be taken are considered prerequisites for the classes I need in Spring I couldn't get in it unless I had proper approval. So I e-mailed my advisor since he had helped me with this type of situation for Fall term and I knew he would understand that position that I was in and that I was trying to graduate this year. He e-mails me back saying that he couldn't help me but that I had to get the approval of the professor. I was a little surprised by his response since in my head I figured like "of course he would let me in, I'm going to graduate in the summer and these are the only classes I need". I then immediately e-mailed one of my teachers and had e-mailed my advisor back since the other professor didn't have an e-mail and it was a weekend so I didn't know how to go about and get his info. Sunday morning I check my e-mail in hopes that I got approved, but..........................he totally denied me.

I was devastated.

My whole plan was now ruined, I had no back up plan, everything immediately seemed like it was crashing down. I freaked out. I felt so defeated and that there was no way to have this situation fixed.

By the next day, I'm still trying to process what happened. My advisor has not responded to the multiple e-mails I had sent him about my situation, and actually to this day he still has not responded. My friend trying to encourage me told me to try and e-mail back the teacher and tell him the whole situation and how it would be a huge money burden to have to wait a year and that I was prepared for this class since I've been taking labs that correspond with the prereqs, etc....

The professor denied me again, in such a rude manner that I could not believe what was happening. At that point I gave up. I did not want to go to school next year and I really was going to give up on my college career. But my friend still trying to encourage me was giving me all these suggestions. I went home cried and then called Adam. He told me to research the General Science major, which my friend had suggested, and that when he got home we would plan it out together (I'm a really bad planner). I had found that I had everything that I needed for that major except two courses and I had 18 credits left that I needed to complete at the U of O. I e-mailed the corresponding people and by the next morning, BAM, I switched my major and now I'm going to graduate in June without having to go to summer school! ISN'T THAT INSANE! The situation took a 180 turn in just a day. God is faithful! This is just like Him saying "See Gaby, I'm right and I know what's best for you", and yup He sure does. Why do I try to make things work by myself??? I don't know.......But Man, seriously I cannot get over how well this turned out. I still am a little disappointed that it won't be a Human Physiology major since I've been working for this for 3 years now, but man it sure does feel good that I will still be able to do the same things as with the other major and not have to go to summer school. It's been a crazy week and I still am in a little disbelief over what happened. Praise the Lord for reals!

Now all that is left is to finish 18 more credits for Spring term, then graduation is June 13th! All are welcome :) And then a bigger celebration on June 19th! Wooooo!

That is all for now.