...And All That Jazz

My first semester of college is almost over. I, Mary Kathryn Ahlberg, survived my first ever semester of COLLEGE. I can't believe I did it. After a plethora of papers, exams, stressful days, and accomplishments, I've just about finished my first semester of college. It still doesn't feel real. I feel like I'm at a camp just doing extra work in order to go home. I still feel like I should be at OHS as a senior, going through my block-schedule day, eating "A" lunch, sitting in choir working on the latest Eric Whitacre piece with my classmates, talking to P-Shives instead of going to the bathroom during class time, and working towards my tassel, since it is worth the hassle. But I'm not. I'm in a whole new world with thousands of people who don't know me or my background. There may be a few Owatonna Alum at Viterbo or even UW-L, but I never see the UW-L folks, let alone the few here at Viterbo. But I'm totally okay with that. I LOVED Owato

I recently read a blog post by the woman of the name of Rachel Selinger titled 'Single and Not Waiting'. By the sound of the title, I was thinking it was going to be about a woman who chose to have sex before she was in a committed relationship. Boy, was I wrong. If you haven't read it yet, put my blog on hold, and take 3 minutes to read hers. The link is here: http://convergemagazine.com/single-waiting-9283/ Read it? Good. Now we can proceed. 'Single and not waiting' is one of the best pieces I've ever read.  Rachel goes on to talk about her singleness and how in today's society, being single is like a disease, how your life begins when you wake up next to your spouse everyday, and how she believes God owes her a boyfriend. Being a single, young woman in 2014, I fully understand her conflictions. Although I am a recent college student, and only 18 years old, I can see how she may believe that all of these things are true. I sometimes too feel as t

Oh golly guys. So I've known this for years, but today it hit me once again. I'm such an embarrassing person. Like, for real though. I have awkward moments at the wrong times all the time. I can count TONS of times when this has happened. Why am I bringing this up now? This is why: So on Monday nights at my school, Campus Ministry puts on "Supper and Scripture" where we all eat a meal together and talk about the readings for Mass the next weekend. It's a great time and all. Someone reads the passage, and we all annotate it or talk about what we understand from it. I usually do pretty well when I have thoughts, but tonight was not one of those nights. We got the 2nd reading from 1st Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17. It's all about respecting your temple from God and raising it up and such. I loved it. So I was thinking we were the temples, so then I chose to speak up (bad idea). I had every intention to say stuff like "We have to respect our bodies and not s

Hey all! So my name is Mary. I'm a freshman in college, (hopefully) majoring in Education with a minor in Special Education. I've decided to start another blog. I've had 2 in the past, but kinda gave up on them. Haha, I guess we'll see how far along I get with this one. I guess this has no theme or whatever to it. It's gonna be random and that's okay cause being random is my thing. Some days, I might be super ecstatic about something, or other days I might feel the need to bitch about something. Or even some days, I might be in between. This may or may not be boring, but I guess we'll try it out and see how it goes! Feel free to follow my random thoughts. Hope you enjoy! Love, Mary