Bucket List: Mercy McGee

My goals range from short term to long term and very in attainableness. Here’s what I could think of :)

• Gain [more] fluency in ASL and use it daily
• Make or find an ASL club on campus
• Become comfortable speaking Spanish
• Find a job that I’m happy in
• Experience a variety of working environments to gain a better understanding of what I want to do.  
• Obtain my master’s in education and my teacher’s certification
• Experience working in an elementary/daycare environment
• Find a place that I am happy to live in. Ever since my dad moved us down to the south, I’ve been searching for somewhere northern that’s more affordable than my home state of Alaska. There aren’t many opportunities in AK, but I love it with my whole heart, and I have a lot of family up there.
• Related to the previous, I want to have enough money to “snowbird” (verb referring when people live in AK during the summers and move back down during the winters. Though, I do miss the winters too. They’re very snowy!)
• Learn to crochet
• Learn to make plushies and fashion/art dolls
• Learn to make fursuits
• Make my own Neocities site. I don’t know what about, I just think it would be fun to learn JavaScript.
• Learn piano and obtain a keyboard
• Create a fully developed song (I write lyrics, but I don’t know how to compose, so I would have to learn instrumental!)
• Display an art piece of mine in a gallery

This list is not comprehensive, but I don’t think a finite list could ever contain everything I want to do in my life. Thank you for reading!

Bucket List: Jayla Carter

 Bucket lists have been a widely used practice that people from all different walks of life have used for years to plan their futures or fantasize about their dreams to their heart’s content. As for me, I can remember younger me wanting to work hard to have my own penthouse in New York, but I have bigger dreams now.

For me, I have always wanted to go above and beyond. I am an overachiever if you would like to put it that way, so the first item on my bucket list is to create a new patent. I want to make a new way to charge electric car batteries faster and more efficiently because that is the world we are progressing into, and as an engineer, I will have the opportunity to help shape the future. However, before I work that far, I need to graduate Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s in engineering. Luckily, SAU has an internship portion of the degree plan that will help me graduate with experience.

The next item on my bucket list would be to get out of the Golden Triangle and the South. I want to see the world that the Lord took his time to beautifully create. Although I have been to ten states, I have never been to a beach or seen a toucan. There is so much world around me, and how am I supposed to see it if I stay in Arkansas or the United States? When I travel, the first place I want to go is Santorini, Greece. I want to see the architecture and take a picture with a long, flowing dress on over the “White City.” Once I get done with all of that, I want to eat a different cuisine on a black sand beach.

Bucket List: Lacy Olivarez

• I would like to travel the world and to explore different cultures. I’d mainly love to see Greece and to make some Greek acquaintances. 
• I want to have a big party at 21 that would make it a night to remember!
• I want to marry the love of my life (Aiden, my fiancé) with an amazing and simple wedding that’s beautiful. 
• I want to be fit and very healthy as well as lose the pounds I am overweight by; I also want to stop being addicted to Dr Pepper!
• I want to live in a gorgeous house and have a beautiful family in a great neighborhood, preferably a suburban area. I want to be a stay-at-home-mom for a bit; I think it would be wonderful. 
• I want to be Miss SAU. I also want to become Miss Arkansas. I’d also love to be Miss America, and maybe even Miss Universe. Gosh, that would be so cool.
• I want to graduate with close to a 4.0 GPA and on the Presidential List every semester from now on. 
• I want to buy a new car that’s reliable and beautiful (almost there!)
• I want to be a famous author and motivational speaker. 
• Break a world record; I’m not sure which one, but one that would be fun to do. 
• I want to learn how to swim. 
• Go to Disney Land or World and Universal Studios. 
• I want to go to a concert for the first time. 
• I want to go to a zoo for the technical first time. 
• I want to start a podcast and an audiobook for my first book.
• \I want to have my gapped teeth fixed so that I feel beautiful.
  

Bucket List: Miller Green

 

When people write down their bucket lists, they usually think of extravagant things. Going to space, being a world leader, becoming famous in media or the arts, and other such fantastical dreams that are usually written on a bucket list. While I understand why people want to participate or achieve the things before their death, I have never strived for such gigantic goals. My life has been graciously blessed as is, the thought of wanting to do something so important or that always puts you under the public eye baffles me! No, my bucket list instead focuses on goals that will give me lifelong happiness and not ignite my life in flames.  

 

           The first goal on my bucket list is to graduate college with a major in history, a mission I am dead set on achieving. My next goal is to find employment that allows a comfortable lifestyle that permits me to live in Arkansas for a very long time. The third goal on my bucket list is, Lord willing, to find a wife. I would think my life would be perfect to have a partner who loves me unconditionally and helps me through life till death do us part. And my last want on my bucket list is to have three kids. I have always wanted a large family and having many kids would be fantastic. The only problem with this last goal would just be attempting to convince my wife we should have three kids.

 

        Now there are other goals as well, but I consider these small and insignificant, and I could forget them at the drop of a hat. But the major goals I have listed seem perfect for me and all I want to achieve before I am to pass away.

Chinedu Okeke accepted into Penn State Law School

 

                                                   Chinedu Okeke in Havana, February 2020

Honors College graduate, Chinedu Okeke, recently reported being accepted into the Penn State University's Law School. Felecitaciones, compadre!

First Mass Meeting Since 2019

 

Ruth Abiola, SAU's newest honors student introduces herself at the first meeting of the entire honors college since 2019

Tonight, 67 honors students (a record!) introduced themselves to rest of the Honors College. Welcome! See you at graduation before you know it.

Shatina Hunter Williams in Sicily

 News from one of our grads! Shatina Hunter Williams

 

I graduated college ‘20 and moved to Little Rock for nursing school!  I got married a year later, and with my husband’s job, we moved to Sicily for three years. It’s been a whirlwind this past year! We moved here, and I finally had time to think about what I truly want to do without feeling any pressure. I am now in my 2nd semester of my online MSW program as this degree will allow me to work in the three areas that I love: higher education, healthcare, and geriatrics. I am excited for the possibilities with this career. 

MSW program as this degree will allow me to work in the three areas that I love: higher education, healthcare, and geriatrics. I am excited for the possibilities with this career. I majored in Spanish and moved to an Italian-speaking country; it is a blessing and a curse. I am learning more Italian than I thought I would, and the architecture is phenomenal. We have traveled to Germany, London, Venice, and Rome so far, and I practice mindfulness daily to remind myself of my amazing and enriching present. The Arkansan in me did not foresee ever moving overseas or integrating into military culture. That was a long explanation, but that has been my experience. P.S. I am also still shocked that I enjoy the phenomena of the social sciences.