A Disappointingly Small Envelope...

As all of you know, I have applied to the Radiology Tech. program for Weber State University via Utah Valley Hospital. I have been working really hard for a year now, taking Biology so that I could retake Anatomy and Physiology and get A's. I also volunteered with the Rad. department at the hospital where I work. I sent my application a month before it was due....everything seemed to be working out just like I had planned.....Or was it?

It was the beginning of March, and I had just taken my midterms....asked my professors to send in grades to the program. Just because I am, for a lack of a better term, anal, I called Weber up to let them know they were coming. I got a definite "It's too late" as a reply. I guess there was a deadline for the 1st of March....hmmm, I didn't remember there being a deadline for midterms!? So I was completely frustrated with myself, decided to investigate....there's nothing stating March 1st, let alone any deadline for anything. Long, traumatic story short, (one that my family knows all too well) after many phone calls and a little visit, they accepted my midterms. Phew, K, now all that was left was to receive a little paper saying that I had an interview....

Just about when I was going to accept the finality of not getting an interview, my roommate checks the mail....I had an interview!! YIKES!! So everything seems to be going just fine. The guy who was 2 interviews ahead of me had them laughing the whole time, and he gets walked out of the room.....K, no pressure, things are going to go great. The girl ahead of me....no real laughter, and no walking her out! What in the world....so now it's my turn, and I feel really good about everything that I said. I was ready, I was prepared.....I got them to laugh a little bit, that's a good sign, right? But I didn't get walked out of the room!! Crap!! Oh well, I did my best, and that was all I could ask for. Now I just had to wait for a letter...

I am checking the mail everyday, dying to see a letter from Weber....and then a manila envelope came this last Saturday. It was so incredibly thin, my heart just sank.....but I am ACCEPTED!! Wahoo! I immediately called up my family, bubbling over with excitement. So no more school for me until the end of August!!

Therefore, you are all witnesses that miracles happen. I would truly feel ungrateful if I didn't acknowledge that the whole time, through all of my doubts and fears, that my Heavenly Father has blessed me a hundred fold. I can't even imagine what I would do without Him, and the comfort and reassurance through it all. My family and friends.....they are way too good to me!! Many of them have fasted and prayed with me in my behalf. Even through all of the frustrations and chaos, I have seen blessings!! It has brought me closer to so many.

So, again, thank you all so incredibly much for your love, support, prayers, EVERYTHING!! And especially with the tears that have been shared. As my Dad always says, "I don't deserve ya, but I'll keep ya"!!