Sun Devil

So I dont normal post about things that i think about, i usually just post about Matthew or things that we have done. But this time im gonna go out on a limb because i was thinking yesterday and i dont really have a journal right now. I was thinking about where i went to college and all the choices i had when making that decision.
    I graduated from Arizona State University in December 2009. This however was not my first choice growing up. All three of my sisters graduated from BYU and when i was growing up my older brother Tim, who went to ASU, would always say to me, where are you gonna go to college, ASU or BYU and in order to be the cool favorite little sister that i loved being, would always say ASU and flash the ASU fork symbol thing. But even though i said this i didnt believe it. I wanted to leave home and i wanted to go to BYU.
    Well the time came to apply and i did. I was super excited, i had everything all planned out to room with my friend Kaytlin and college was going to be amazing! Then doom day came, letter opened, application denied. I cant tell you how long i cried or how upset i was. ( that was the day my hatred of BYU started )  I didnt know what to do. My plans suddenly changed, i had no plans. I decided i would finish 30 credits at ASU as fast as possible and transfer to BYU the following Spring. In order to do this i needed to take summer school right out of high school. So i graduated from Highland High and five days later started summer school at ASU. ( and just as a strange fact, never stopped school until i graduated, man alive i was crazy ). Well december came and it was time to apply to transfer, i started the process and just didnt feel right about it. I didnt feel like i should go there. I didnt really know how to explain the just decided it wasnt for me. Ofcourse i didnt want to stay at ASU either, i wanted to move out. I was sick of being the only college person i knew living at home. So i talked to my parents and applied for the University of Utah. I got accepted and was ready to move and find a place to live. But then a couple weeks before i was suppose to go up to find a place to live, i didnt feel right about that either. Much to my disappointment i felt like i was suppose to stay at ASU. Which i felt like was a terrible decision because i am not a very social person and living at home was not helping me with that at all. But i did what i felt like i should do and stayed.
    Time came and went, and i eventually was ok with my decision. Im happy i stayed because if i didnt i wouldnt be currently married to my wonderful husband or have my wonderful child. But as i was driving in the car yesterday, i realized that i am proud to be a Sun Devil. I am proud to have gone there and graduated and am so glad that i did. When i think of ASU i get all filled with pride and its fun to go to the footballs games and its fun to have graduated where my brothers did. Im the old girl out in my family, they all went to Mesa High and BYU and i went to HIghland high and ASU. But its kinda fun being the odd one out, especially since i have something that i can share with my brothers, especially since i dont have alot in common with any of them. Growing up i alwyas felt like going to ASU would make my brother Tim proud of me and love me more some how, although thats not the reason that i ultimately went it was always in the back of my head and i hope i made him happy.
    Well im proud to be a Sun Devil! And i hope that all you other Sun Devils out there fill the same!