I Count My Blessings (each and every day!)

I had my interview for Homecoming Court on Thursday, and it was INTENSE!!! There were 4 people interviewing me and I was NOT expecting that! I was sooo nervous and they could probably tell...haha but it was a lot of fun! I got to talk about KMWC and my experience here at UCF and how being here has helped me become the person that I am today :) I will hear back sometime this week if I made it onto the Homecoming Court or not...so nervous!

Also, check this out:

"Melyssa,
It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been selected from a group of qualified candidates into the Research and Mentoring Program for our pilot one year program for graduating Seniors."

AMAZINGNESS!!!


So I did end up officially getting my funding for the RAMP program (as you can see above)! Now I will be working in Dr. Worthy's PEBL lab and will get up to $2800 for the fall and spring semesters!!! I am SO lucky because this is the first year that they were offering this program to seniors!


Also...today I found out that my opportunities are expanding! Dr. Fiore sent this e-mail out to the CogSciLab and he actually mentions how I am contributing to the project!!!
"A significant portion of the discussion at our talk revolved around the animal-human communication...
One of our undergraduate RAs on this project, Melyssa Allen, is an avid researcher in this area (e.g., has interned with marine biologists and animal behaviorists). So Patsy and the grad students are working with her to develop a paper which explores this literature to examine the breadth and depth of ways that humans are able to communicate with animals."

Do you know what this means?! If we are able to carry out this literature review paper, MY NAME WILL
BE ON A PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLE!!! So freaking exciting!

Like the title of this entry says...I am counting my blessings each and every day!!!

The Triathlon Challenge starts on Monday...so I'm pretty excited! I've got my schedule planned out, so I really have to make sure I manage my time well for studying and work and lab work!!!

Although this has been my busiest semester with my hardest courseload...this has been the GREATEST semester ever so far!!! I really hope it keeps up that way!

I would really like to thank everyone for all of their support and encouragement! It wouldn't be easy for me to get through all of this without all of my amazing friends and family!!!
:)

So this is just for your entertainment...Buddy and his new squeaky football toy! As you can tell...
he doesn't like it at all ;)

There was also a baby-Buddy at work today! Just look at the similarity! She was SO precious!!!