College is crazy! And I have now found out that being an Equine Major actually means I have sold my soul to the devil and therefore have no life. It’s stressful, comedic, annoying, amazing, competitive, and everything else you would imagine college would be… but like 5 times because it’s such a small program and they expect the most from you. Especially when you are a University Honors Scholar.
You see, at my school we have two types of honors students, Presidential Honors and University Honors Scholars. I’m the second one. This means I am one out of about 80 other students who are required to take a research class and write a 35 page thesis on pretty much what ever we would like to write about and have part of it published by the middle to the end of our junior year. NOT EXCITED AT ALL ABOUT THAT!!!
The program is freaking intense! I’m barely two-thirds of the way through my first tri here and they have already had me register for next terms classes! Right now I’m in 20th Century English Lit. and all we’ve done is write poems!! I don’t get it, I thought we were supposed to be reading more, not writing. Don’t get me wrong I’m kind of happy that we are just writing poems because they are easy to whip out, but this is a LITERATURE course! Then there is Quantitative Analysis I, which is pretty much Algebra 2 all over again and is wicked easy.
Yes the northerners have gotten me to start saying “Wicked” a lot! Haha.
Anyways, on to the Equine classes. I have been in Intro to Equine Management learning about the history and evolution of the horse, horse behavior and training, careers in the industry, and the horse in sport. I have a 5 page paper due in there on November 10th.
Then I have my riding class. (FAVORITE!) The first 4 weeks I was on this Danish Warmblood gelding Timmy… My GOD has he been difficult to work with. My first lesson I thought my legs were going to fall off! HE IS NOT A MORNING HORSE AND HAS NO HORSE POWER! It was like I was starting my riding career all over again and knew nothing! Then the 3rdweek he spooked himself and almost threw me. That was a blast! Now I am on this cute Thoroughbred gelding Jackson. I love this horse, but everyone I’ve talked to says he’s crazy… hmm. I rode him for the first time for like 5 minutes in team tryouts and he was great! So far I’ve had two jumping lessons on him, and rode him in our school show on October 17th. We placed 4th in Dressage. I was very happy with that because he had been acting up during out test, so I was surprised that we placed. All in all we had fun and that’s what it’s all about.
Well I’ve got to get back to having no life, so talk to yall later!
Xoxo Jordan
