I have a wedding dress. I have a florist and a caterer, a venue and an officiant. I have a photographer and a DJ. I am all ready for my wedding, now less than 2 months away. I haven't updated my blog, because not much has changed in the last year. I'm still an electrical engineering student at Calvin College. I still live in my same apartment in Grand Rapids, and am still engaged to Cody.
At LDAC last summer, I learned to call cadences effortlessly and to march on beat without missing a step. I learned to make a cocoon from a sleeping mat and a poncho, and to thoroughly clean an M-16. I slept in canvas tents and beneath the stars, and made new friends. I secured my place in the Army, and look forward to commissioning on May 22 as a Signal Corps officer.
My fiance and I no longer have to worry about spending our first few months of marriage in two different states; Cody will be moving up to Grand Rapids for our final semester of school, commuting to Chicago once a week.
I am building an amphibious robot equipped with a metal detector in my final semester of college. My senior design project, Amphibot, will be ready to present on Senior Design night in May. My teammates and I make up the first group of all women, at least in years if not ever, in Calvin's engineering history.
It's a good life I lead. I'm a lucky woman.
