Disney College Program!!

Hello everyone!
So applications for the Spring 2017 Disney College Program have dropped today!! (August 25th).

Here is the story:
I woke up for work and decided to put on my Mickey Mouse shirt with some jeans and my newest Disney shoes. This was the first time that I had worn them so I felt like it played at least a little part to the day. I headed to work around 7:30 and when I got into work I logged into the computer and got all of my sites set to where they need to be. I decided to check out the Disney College Program website (as I have been doing since the 1st of August) and I noticed that it was no longer saying "Opt in for notice". I literally screamed... well silently screamed because I was indeed at work. I thought that it would be around August 25th but it came so much earlier!

My first thought was to start the application right then and there but I decided that the way for me to be successful would be by waiting until I left work at 12:30. Oh my goodness... I don't think the day could have been slower than how it was today. I had so many times that I wanted to just dive right into the application but I couldn't. My twin has also wanted to be able to apply so I went and messaged her about it and she was super excited as well. We decided that since I get home first that I would apply first and that way if she needed help I would be able to help her.

The time came for me to head home and I would just like to note that I drove very safe all of the 30 minutes that it took me. I did not rush! haha! I got home and right away went to my computer and started the application. It wasn't too hard but it took me awhile because I wanted to get everything perfect! I was at the point of submitting it and it said "Before closing the window, please push sign out". I looked everywhere on the page and there was no place saying sign out so I decided to push the close button... Well advice for others.... DO NOT DO THIS! haha! It asked me if I was sure that I wanted to exit and I said yes. Well then I noticed that the sign out button was on the page for Disney Careers. So I decided to sign out and then log in again and check if there was an application on my dashboard. Well when I went to log in, it kept telling me that the username and password was wrong. After many attempts and me trying to retrieve my username. It would not work.

I made the executive decision to go back in and start all over. I had heard from reading a bunch of blogs and it was stated that they did not want you to apply with multiple applications. I had not received any kind of email stating that they had received my application and so I figured that it had been compromised. SO I went through it all over again and got it submitted the right way! WOO! I got an email and thats how I knew that it had actually worked this time.

About 20 minutes later, I received my Web Based Interview email and I had to decide when I wanted to take it within 3 days of receiving the email. My sister came home and we started her application around 3:00. She took a while for her application and she finished around 4:00. I had to leave for my dance job at 4:50 so I decided I was going to go ahead and start my Web Based Interview. *If you freak out under pressure and don't like having a short amount of time then I would definitely advise you to not give you the amount of time that I gave myself.*
What is the result???? I PASSED!!! WOOO! It told me that I would need to schedule a phone interview and that an email would be coming in about 24 hours. 15 minutes later I got my email and went straight on the site and scheduled it for August 22 at 2:45! NEXT MONDAY! So I have a little bit of time until I have to do the interview so I can plan and get all prepared!

Megan got a Web Based Interview as well and she took it and passed as well! She scheduled her phone interview for August 23! Its pretty crazy that we both got to this point. I hope that we both get in because that would be beautiful! I will update you more later!

Get ready to read a boring blog post.

Hello! Its M’lyn, back at it again with the blog posts.
That only works with Daniel huh!?
Right now I am at work… bored as eva.. I am waiting for the mail because every day we get mail and then I open it and distribute it to the rest of the office. Wow. I am already boring you all. Is it too late now to say sorry? CAUSE IM MISSING MORE THAN JUST YOUR BODY DUH DUH DA DA DA DUH……. Sorry when the biebs songs start going I just can’t control myself. #BieberIsBae


School is right around the corner! I start on the 22nd and if you were one of the lucky few, you have already been running for a week. Yeah. I don’t miss that part of high school. But I do miss having my Fridays off!

I have not fully decided with this blog post is going to be about, I just need to have something to do so I don’t look like I am sitting here doing nothing.


College is a funny thing. Everyone comes in with different expectations on how it will be. If you are like me, you had a sibling in college before you went so it gave you a little view of what it would be like. The thing is, everyone’s experience is different the person next to you. I came into college knowing what my sisters time here was like, but I was so scared. High school was a war zone. People wanted to be the cool ones and the fashionable ones… which is funny because at my school we had to wear the worst uniform ever. KAKIS GROSS….. Everyone floated around and they tried to be original and unique, but there was no room or time for that. High school is just the place where you find really great friends and have many many MANY awkward moments. You go to school dances and pound your fist in the air to the DJ’s remix that gives you a challenge to be able to dance to. You go on field trips and cherish every moment because at my school we had them barely ever. You count the days until thanksgiving break, Christmas break, spring break and summer break comes because those are the real MVP’s. You have drama because what is high school with no drama. And this drama is not even drama that is worth fighting but yet it seems like its life or death in the moment. You catch the dreaded senioritis and try to get through and pass school in one piece.. yeah that was a hard one for me.. haha! You have to make life situations like which college do you want to go into debt for. And you have to learn what it feels like to say goodbye and not know when you will see that person again. (Hint: It sucks). But in the end, you get to really start living and go after what you want. And the first step to that is COLLEGE.


Okay I don’t really know what I am writing about right now. It started out very clear and I was like woo yeah! So exciting! But now it is like I am trying to be inspirational and I don’t know how to be. Its only 9:20 and the mail came and it took me literally 5 minutes to open and go through. You may be thinking, so that’s the standard time. Not for the graduate school where we have hundreds of people attending and new people applying and sending in transcripts. We usually get a lot of mail and then I have to go scan it which helps to eat up a lot of my time at work, but today is going to be a slow and boring one.




I have been researching almost every day about the Disney College Program, which is only because I have nothing to do at work. They say not to overload yourself with information about it but I can’t help it! I have nothing else to do! I think the applications will come out around August 25th. I am super excited but I also am not looking forward to the wait and I just wish I knew if I was in or not. I am such a planning type of person and I like to just know what is going to happen at all times!

Well its 11:07 and I have a little more than an hour to go. I have almost fallen asleep about 5 times but work is almost over for the day! I don't think it has ever been this slow of a work day where I had absolutely nothing to do!

That's all for now!
Until Next Time,
XOXO,
Gossip Girl


AKA M'lyn

What Life Has Taught Me

Hi there everyone!

So here I am, Sunday night, watching Bates Motel on Netflix and I get the sudden urge to blog about my life. Its definitely weird seeing as Bates Motel is about a mentally psychotic boy named Norman Bates that just so happens to black out sometimes and kill people... you know... the usual. Also, side note... I am on season 3 right now and that is the last one available on Netflix and I am just wondering how I am going to survive the wait for season 4??? Dylemma alone makes me want to see it as soon as possible... (Watch the show to get that reference, or you know look it up on youtube haha!) If you want me to make another blog post about my love for Bates Motel I definitely will because I have so much to say and feel.

ANYWAYS.. M'lyn stay on topic gosh....
Sorry. So! It is August right now and I have already begun some new changes in my life.
1) I am now officially a dance teacher. AHHH! The dream is becoming real! I have just 1 student as of last week and she is quite possibly the cutest little girl I have ever seen. She inspires me already and I just love her!!!

2) I am now working 2 jobs! AHH STRESS! haha! JK its not that bad. I work at UNC still at the graduate school for half the day until 12:30 and then I go later in the day and work as the receptionist for the studio! Its completely new for me but its fun! I clean a lot which surprisingly I love! haha! (Don't tell my parents I said that...)

3) I have to put my big girl pants on. What does this mean exactly? Well, soon I will be applying for the Disney College Program and if I get accepted I will be leaving my house and college and go to Florida or California for 4-7 months. Yeah. I am a little stressed. With that I have also been dancing with some of my best friends and we have a big project coming up that I super duper want to be a part of in the spring. Yes I just said super duper... #TrendSetterOverHere. The only problem with all this is that I can only do one or the other (So Far). Things always change but I am definitely worried that I will only be able to one of them and have to let go of the other. Basically I have been praying a lot and just letting God take over for this one because it will make me go mad if I don't.

4) Like the #3 states, I have a new project that I am involved in. Its obviously about dance and I have been choreographing with my dear friend and we have made one of my all time favorite dances. It feels so good to be able to feed off of someone else's creativity and just bounce ideas to get the best result. We have been slaying it (as the cool kids say). Gosh I felt old just saying that and I am only 20.

So with all these changes and new things that are happening, I have been taking a step back and remembering the lessons and obstacles that I have faced in my life.

Life lesson #1: Things can change in a blink of an eye

So I bet you think you know where your life is going to be in 10 years. First of all you go Glen Coco because thats pretty impressive. Okay so I don't know what you have gone through but for me, just when I think I know where my life is going to go it completely changes. When I was younger I said I was going to be a professional golf cart driver and that has definitely changed. I always think I know where I want to go with my life or what path it is on, but only God knows and I have found that I am completely okay with that. You may have friends that seem like they are the best friends ever but that can completely change and you may lose them.... Now I still have my best friends from high school and so fortunately for me it hasn't been a problem! Love you girlies!
But really. Change will happen and the best thing to do is invite it.

Life Lesson #2: Be prepared to feel like you have completely lost yourself as some point.

This sounds so depressing but it is not. Sure not everyone goes through this but I certainly have. I think whenever you enter college as a freshman, you are on the joy ride of having to figure out what you want and who you are. I am a junior in college now and I am barely finished figuring out who I am. I didn't realize at the time but when I was in high school, I was someone that I didn't want to be. I worried so much about being seen as cool and being invited to literally everything that I let other important things slip through my fingers. Now in college, I look back and just cringe at that person. Its not important to be invited to everything. Its not important to be cool. I mean yes, we all want to be like Glen Coco and get 4 candy canes but sometimes that doesn't happen. #KillingItWithTheMeanGirlsReferences.
I wish I would have seen how deep I was when I lost myself but it worked out in the long run because I was able to find myself through it and find what I didn't want to be like anymore.

Life Lesson #3: Learn to put yourself sometimes before others

I am someone that loves people. I want to makes sure that I help others in any way that I can and with that I have let a lot of people walk over me. I have said yes to things that I didn't want to do and I have just done what everyone thought I should do. But I have changed tremendously with this. I learned to think about what is best for me and what my limitations are. Not everyone means to hurt you but sometimes it happens. Sometimes you have to make changes that make the people you had as friends fall behind instead of stick with you, but it all works out in the end. Sacrifices are needed even though it feels so bad at the time.

Life Lesson #4: Adventure is out there.

This is something that everyone realizes as some point. For me, it is that there is so much more outside of Greeley. Now obviously I knew that but I didn't realize how much there really was. How much I could be a part of. How big the world is for me to dream. When I went to my first Disney audition, I may not of walked away with a part, but I walked away with the greatest feeling ever. I got to feel what it felt like to actually go after what I wanted. I got to be adventurous.

Okay. I think I am done for now. There are a lot more life lessons that I could talk about but these are the ones that my fingers decided to type. Let me know some of your life lessons and how you feel about them!

GUYS! I am on the 3rd to last episode now of Bates Motel.. Send help! I might just crawl into a ball and cry because I don't know what to do... Its like when I watched all of Greys Anatomy. 12 seasons baby and it is basically my best friend.

Wow. I need to get out more.

Thats all for now!
Until Next Time,
XOXO,
Gossip Girl

Aka.... M'lyn