So I haven’t blogged about this, but I thought it was about time to get down to it since I’m leaving on Wednesday. Dr. Morgan submitted my research paper for American Literature I to the National Undergraduate Literary Conference at Weber University, and it was accepted. This is not something I expected to be doing, but it is an honor nonetheless. The conference lasts from April 2-6, and it is in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brittany B. was also accepted for her poetry, so we both get to go. We will fly out together (at 7:00 in the morning!), stay in a room together, and come back on the next Monday (at 5:30 in the morning!). And Lynn University is paying for everything, which I couldn’t be more grateful for. I would never have had this opportunity if it weren’t for that fact.

As the day approaches, I get more and more excited and more and more nervous.  I’m going to be reading a paper that I wrote to an audience of people that I’ve never met. If that’s not nerveracking, I don’t know what is. And I’m going to meet so many people! I’m not the most social person in the world. In addition to listening to other students from around the nation read their papers, there will be three published authors at the conference who will be guest speakers. They are Geoffrey Wolff, Eleanor Wilner, and Bret Anthony Johnston. I think this is a great opportunity that Lynn has provided me with and I am going to do everything I can to get as much out of it as possible.