Why does the OS X Utilities always boot up after restart?

I restarted the mac recently today after school, and it suddenly booted up onto "OS X Utilities" insted of to my regular hard drive. I just want to get on my account again without restoring or reinstalling the operating system. Why is this happening? I don't want to lose any current information/files either... how do you fix this?

Once it boots normally open System Preferences - Startup Disk and check to see if your internal HD is selected.

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