Michigan's Not Very Good At Lotta Stuff

We beat Michigan. We beat Michigan bad. You know what that means? It's seven years in a row that we've beat Michigan. It was a pretty exciting game to say the least. But if you don't know already, I feel like I should tell you that I got painted up for the game. Yes, it was the coldest (well, the only cold game really) of the year, with a lovely temperature of 30° and I had to be at the stadium by 10 am. So I was standing in the cold with just a sports bra and sweatpants on for 5.5 hours (I GOT ON TV TOO!). That's dedication if you ask me. So at the end of the 37-7 win, a bunch of us in Block O (the student section for those who don't know) decided what the hell, let's rush the field. I mean, we haven't rushed the field all year and we just beat our rivals for the seventh straight year, so why not! The first few rows waited by the gate and as the clock hit about 10 seconds left, me and four others girls ran onto the field, but after me, the security was told don't let anyone onto the field. So basically five girls in sports bras, looking crazy, rushed the field. It was so worth it though! I mean, I even got to sing Carmen Ohio with the football team. The only downer of the game? Nike.

That's my head between 48 and 73!!!

There was also this thing called the Mirror Lake Jump. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's kinda a big deal around Ohio State. What this jump entails is students (that would be me) and/or fans jumping into a poop filled pond with 15,000 others around midnight to show our school spirit in frigged weather. Because obviously jumping into a pond will clearly make us beat Michigan easier. DUH. But Mackenzi and I jumped twice for about a total of 15 minutes. It was cold but SOOOO worth it. Oh, and I ate four donuts after like it was my job. Hands down one of the most fun things I have done at Mirror Lake so far. Nothing beats jumping up and down in Mirror Lake, singing We Don't Give A Damn/doing the Buckeye Bounce. I love this school!

"Why are you wearing a winter chhh-coat?"

 

Besides the Michigan game, I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I enjoyed seeing my family for the first time (except my dad who came for parents weekend) since I left for school! It was so nice to just go 30 minutes off campus for a few nights (we stayed at a family friend's house the holiday). I had an excellent few days filled with fun times, delicious food (Turkey Day was my first home cooked meal since I left), and the Champions League. Plus, after dinner on Thursday we all watched a documentary about The Game. You can't get more Ohio State than that. But then on Friday we all went to the Ohio State/Miami (OH) basketball game. It was a fun last night with the family and I can't wait to see them soon!

 The family at the basketball game!

So, the World Cup bid day was today, and if you follow me on twitter or were in my dorm room at 10:40, you know how I feel about all this. Let's just say that FIFA and Sepp Blatter are very very VERY corrupt and will do anything for a little extra cash. Seriously, Qatar? I'm cool with Russia, and I think that will be a fun World Cup, but Qatar? The country looks down on gays, women, Jews, drinking, and I'm sure a bunch of other things. I mean, homosexuality is illegal and can lead to imprisonment. It is average 110° in the summer, Qatar has very close proximity to unstable, terrorist countries, they don't recognize Israel as a country and Israeli fans will have a hell of a time traveling though Qatar, and all the stadiums (I think) are within 20 miles of each other. Also,  if the same amount of people that traveled to the World Cup last summer (3.18 million) go to Qatar already on top of the approx 1 million inhabitants, there would a person 9 feet from everyone all over the country. Qatar is one small place. Don't even get me started on their team. They are ranked 113th in the world and have never qualified for a World Cup. And then there is this. Oh, and the state of Ohio has bigger stadiums than Qatar and is actually bigger than Qatar, so I think the freaking state of Ohio would host a better World Cup than that country. So hats off to you, FIFA, for putting many in danger come 2022 and the poor players might have a few heat strokes along the way. But hey, you are stuffing your pockets with a bunch of extra money, so who else really matters, right? But how could we have lost? We had Morgan Freeman and Bill Cliton there! #usa2026?

 Morgan. Freeman. Oh FIFA...

The former president was even there!

Glad I got my Qatar rant out of the way. Moving on!

As the quarter is nearing an end, many of us have swipes to get rid of. For those non Ohio State people that could potentially read this blog, swipes (our meal plan) don't carry over quarter to quarter, so we have to use them all before the quarter ends or else it is really money wasted. One easy way to use up swipes is to go to the campus "grocery" (yeah, they have milk, cereal, ice cream, and beef jerky... well, the Burrito's one does at least) store and stock up on non-perishables, such as Powerade. And boy, did Mackenzi and I did just that.

That would be a total of 96 bottle of Powerade and Vitamin Water

The best part? They accidentally gave us the crates of Powerade that stock the fridges, not the smaller ones that they sell for swipes. Plus, they don't give away Vitamin Water... Win? I think so. But carrying that was fun. Luckily some guys from the dorm helped us for part of the way!

 Finals are next week and right about now I wish I learned how to study in high school. Yeah, kinda a problem. So in order to help my procrastinating, I decided to actually read a book on my own this week (partially because I have been wanting to read this book for a long time and partially because I have been really unmotivated this week). So all week long I have been reading Soccernomics and it's great. No joke, I'm almost done. I feel like such a geek reading it, but if you love soccer as much as I do then I highly recommend it. It's that great. But yeah, two days of finals next week and then I fly home on Friday. I cannot wait!!!

I think that's all for this week.

White Lies remix.

Beat Michigan Week

It's finally here. I've been waiting for this for...  a long time. It's Beat Michigan Week, babyyy! For those select few that don't know, but this Saturday is The Game. Like I said in my previous post, this is the reason I am staying at school for Thanksgiving. An easy way to tell it's almost time the beat Michigan again is by just taking a walk around campus. Besides the increased amount of Beat Michigan/Muck Fichigan t-shirts, just about on every campus sign that there is an "M", it is covered in red tape. The first building I saw was McPherson, so I just associated it with the bomb threat (I don't know why) but then it clicked! It's time to beat Michigan! WOO! Also, pretty much every other person on Facebook has an anti-Michigan status. It's great! Also, just walk down the hall; you will most likely see something like this:

That white board has had some anti-Michigan all year

 

The game is at noon on Saturday. I suggest you watch us beat Michigan for the 7th straight year!

So, yeah, bomb threat. About that. Well, last Tuesday four buildings (McPherson Lab, Scott Lab, Smith Lab, and Thompson Library) had a bomb threat. That pretty much closed off all north campus so it was pretty much a bitch to get to class, but I am safe. I didn't get blown up. All is well.

MOVING ON!

Yesterday my friend Amy took me out to sushi for my birthday. Real food. Nuff said. Oh, and there was also Jeni's. TRY THAT STUFF!

MY FAMILY IS COMING WEDNESDAY!

It's my birthday and I can't concentrate and I felt the need to update. Sorry for the lack.. of writing.

Mirror Lake tomorrow!

White Lies.

This Is College.

So the quarter is nearing an end; with 2.5 weeks of school left plus 4 days of finals, it's hard to believe I'll be home in less than a month. Seriously. I just got to school. It's hard to believe, though, that I've been at school for basically two months now. The time has seriously flown. A lot of people told me before I left that time just flies in college, but I had no idea how fast. I have two more midterms (one in two hours and one next Tuesday), a week off, and then exams. My schedule for next quarter isn't too bad.

 

The official winter quarter schedule

But I have a chem final tonight. I've been studying my little butt off for this. I actually read my book, highlighted and sticky noted it, and spent the weekend in the library. Which, by the way, thank god Thompson is such a nice library; I really don't mind being cooped up for 3+ hours in here (which is where I'm writing this). But with last week's fantastic weather, I was able to study on the Oval and by Mirror Lake. Hopefully my studying pays off!

This past weekend was a great sports weekend. I got to go to both a basketball and a football game! Friday was the basketball home opener against the all-mighty NC A&T. But it's sweet because this year OSU has added student section seats behind the bench along with behind a basket next to the band. It's pretty sweet. But man, our team is legit this year. Yes, we lost Turner, but we also have the number one freshman recruit coming in and four returning starts. Plus we have a bench this year! There were still plenty of Club Tril shirts in the stands, too. Fun times and I can't wait for the Big Ten games to start in January!

For those who did not know, College GameDay was in Columbus for the Penn State game! And as the good Ohio State fan I am, I was in attendance. I heard some people camped out the night before, and some people even left at 2 am, but I didn't leave the dorm until 7:30 and I had no issue getting to the front (GameDay starts at 9).

 

My view of the stage!

 

 Fantastic backdrop :)

But have no fear for it became packed - quick! I kinda wish I could see how packed it was though (and I also want to know if you could hear us booing Desmond). A kid in my group had a sign but it got confiscated. I guess it just wasn't nice! But the celebrity guest picker this week was Chris Poundstone, the world's strongest man, and at one point during the show he ripped a Michigan helmet to shreds. Let me just say we all went crazy at that point. GameDay was a ton of fun! The game on the other hand... phew, what a game (plus we had nice weather... 65°! We have yet to have a cold game.)! The first half was miserable. Horrendous. Ugly. All I could think was "Wisconsin" over and over again. That's all I have to say about the first half. Thank god for the band, they managed to put me into a semi-good mood before the game. I love our band. End of story. (Oh, and Penn State brought their band, which is the first time there has been an opposing band there. All brass band > normal marching band. True facts). But the second half... what a half! By far the most exciting half of football all year! The crowd was electric, which is nice compared to the blah that ensues when there is a massive blowout. The stands were rocking, I was going crazy. And since it was not a blowout, fans actually stayed until the end! WOO! I cannot wait for the Michigan game. For reals.

So yes, The Game. It's almost here; I can hardly believe it! Just to prove how time flies at college: when I moved in, the Michigan countdown was at 70+ days, and as of this morning we're at 12 days. this is crazy. I have basically waited 19 years for this game. Not an exaggeration. I mean, this game is the reason I am not coming home for Thanksgiving. Yes, I am staying at school for a football game. That should say something about me. But I'm soo pumped because my family is coming out for Thanksgiving and I cannot wait to see them! Plus next week is Beat Michigan Week and it also happens to be my birthday week. WOOO! Tuesday is Mirror Lake Jump as well. Uhh, next week is going to rock. (Did I mention my birthday was next week? Hahaha).

Alright, it's midterm time! Wish me luck.

(But first listen to this)

4 Day School Week!

Thank god Veteran's Days falls on a Thursday this year. This basically means I will not have a 3 hour chem lab this week and I wont have to make it up! YAY! On top of that, I hear that it's the hardest Chem 121 lab. Only downfall? My math quiz gets moved up to Tuesday. I think I can live with that. This upcoming week does not look to be too stressful. I can dig that.

Ohio State football had a bye week this week, so I really didn't want football this week, and I don't really know what all went down. I actually feel kind of lost; I don't like the feeling. I am certain of a few things: Ohio State is now 8 in the AP (BCS will be released around 8:30 tonight) and College Gameday is coming to Columbus for the Penn State game. That's right, Corso & crew will be at The Ohio State University this Saturday! Now, don't get me wrong, I'm pumped that Gameday is in CBUS, but may I ask why? Penn State isn't even ranked, and I'm sure that there are plenty of ranked match-ups next Saturday. But I'm going to go with the fact that JoePa just got his 400ths career win and Tressel just got win no. 100 at Ohio State back when we played Indiana. I think that's the only reasonable explanation. If anyone knows the real reason, feel free to let me know!

This past weekend was opening weekend for On The Shore of the Wide World, which stars my roommate, Mackenzi! So last night I went with her mom, grandma, and aunt to see the show. Mackenzi rocked the part and the show was great! But earlier that day I went over to Easton and Polaris to do some shopping with money I don't have with Mackenzi and her family. But I got some cute sweaters from Forever 21. Packing for school I realized I have little winter clothes from the previous year and I didn't realize how little until it's been 45° this past week. But my favorite purchase has to be my Bill Cosby sweater. It's very 80's and very warm. It's great, very college. Oh, and I finally got to eat real food. Tomato Basil Pasta from Cheesecake Factory. First real meal in who knows how long! I mean, when my dad came to town we ate Skyline. Seriously. Parents in town also means grocery shopping! Mackenzi and I have so much food that there is not room for everything. But hey, at least we wont go hungry! We also got a new fish!

I helped picked him out!

His name is Niji, which is Japanese for rainbow. Hopefully the water will not kill him, like the water has killed Rave and my bamboo:

It's so sad looking

No joke, the water at Ohio State kills things. So we have to be really careful with the water we put Niji in.

Friday I went to my first OSU hockey game! It was really fun, and I can't wait until we play Michigan and Miami (OH) (I heard these games are the best). But the band was there, the students were really into, and there was even a little bit of a crowd! Now, I don't know how the average OSU hockey game is, but I had fun at this one. For those who care, we won 6-2. Yeah, Alabama-Huntsville isn't that great of a hockey team. They even got a player kicked out of the game. Who knows. But since the Buckeyes scored at least 4 goals, everyone in the crowd got free medium fries from McDonald's. WOO! I remember, because I do not know if this still happens, the Blue Jackets used to give away free Wendy's chili if 3 or more goals were scored by the CBJ. Free food is the best.

Nothing else too exciting happened this week. I schedule classes on Tuesday and the basketball home opener is on Friday, so I will be looking forward to that. Thanksgiving will be right around the corner. Cannot wait for a good, home cooked meal.

New Cake song. Go.

Happy Halloween

Today marks the last day in October, which is crazy to think about. I feel like it was just September 19th and I was moving in to Blackburn. But alas, tomorrow marks the first day of November, which also means my birthday is right around the corner. WOOOOO! 19!! Such an exciting birthday, no? Last year as a teenager. But if anyone wants to get me anything for my birthday they can get me a "Ann Arbor is a whore" t-shirt. UniversiTees stopped selling them and I'm quite upset.

Let me start off by saying Halloween at Ohio State is kind of a let down. Let's just say it's tame enough where I saw little kids wandering around campus on Friday night with their parents. I don't think that could happen in Madison... So we have one of the largest campuses in the nation and it's a rather tame weekend. It makes sense since one of the biggest Halloween parties in the nation happens to be right over at OU. Basically half the campus went to Athens for the weekend. It was fun seeing everyone dressed up in costumes on Friday night. It just sucked because it was a nice 75 degrees on Wednesday and then BAM! Two days later it drops to 50. It made walking around High Street in a flapper dress a little uncomfortable. So back to Halloween being a total bust at Ohio State; all the parties this weekend were super exclusive so if you didn't know anyone, good luck getting in. That's why last night my group and I stayed in to watch the game and SNL. Seriously, no joke. I'm a college kid who just stayed in on a Saturday. It's all okay because Beat Michigan Week/Mirror Lake Jump IS our Halloween. Just come talk to me the week of my birthday, it'll be a great birthday week.

Me and Mackenzi as flappers!

This past week officially marked halfway through the quarter! 5.5 weeks of school done, 5 more to go plus 4 days of finals! Time has just flown; I can hardly believe it. Pretty soon I start scheduling for winter quarter. So the past few weeks I had to finish up my 6-quarter projection for engineering and oh my goodness do engineers ever have to front load! For those who don't know, at Ohio State, engineers have to apply into the major, so right now I'm technically "pre-engineering." It's along the lines of pre-med and such, but I obviously don't have to go through 80 years of schooling. So I'm trying to aim to apply to the major next winter quarter and be accepted for spring 2011. I'm just worried about the quarter to semester change between my sophomore and junior year; right now with the quarter system I can graduate in 4 years, but I'm worried that might get pushed back with me losing a quarter of classes a year. But in order to apply to the major I have to take a bunch of required classes first. Basically on a quarter system, the average student takes 16 credit hours per quarter, but as an engineering major, I should take an average of 19 credit hour per quarter.

This could very much be my schedule next quarter

 

Yeah, thanks to only one German 299 class, only one Chem 125 lecture, and lab days for both engineering and chemistry falling on either Tuesday or Thursday, I don't have a lot of leeway in scheduling for Winter 2011. The only day that sucks is Tuesday, but other than that, every day isn't all that bad!

Side note: I am becoming and expert in lab write ups and memos for engineering and chemistry. I can whip one up in no time.

Please listen to this and that's all I ask.

 

Okay, bye!

Homecoming

What a past few weeks! Sorry it has been a while since I've last updated, but I have been quite the busy girl! This week was homecoming at Ohio State, and today there was the parade and pep rally. I will say I had no idea that the Buck-I-Guy would be in the parade, but hey, Ohio State is crazy. There was also Gee, Archie Griffin, and the band (plus other floats, but they're really not that important). The previous people I just mentioned all spoke at the pep rally along with the new NCAA president (who is in town to witness his first college football game as president), the AD, and of course the 6 football captains. The football players (minus Dane Sanzenbacher and Cam Hayward) were actually pretty shy. None of them wanted to speak! Hahaha. But here is Dane speaking about the loss to Purdue last year:
Dane Sanzenacher: "We're pissed off. You guys should be pissed off too!"
B. Rolle: "Yeah, I'm pissed too."
Then there was this quote from Gee:
Gordon Gee: "Did you know the Princeton Review ranked Ohio State as the number one most obnoxious school? I'm quite proud of that!"
 Oh, and there were free burgers. What could be better than that?


So the Muse concert rocked! It was awesome, a little on the short side (90 minutes including the encore... I mean, Weezer, who played a free show, played 105 minutes), but still an excellent show none the less.

Set list!

The lights were amazing. I mean, that's the reason tickets cost so much!

So many lights!

The best part of the whole show? The very last song each member of Muse put on custom #2 OSU jerseys! Amy and I freaked out. To top it off, the last song they played was Knights of Cydonia. By far my FAVORITE Muse song. There was no other way to end a concert! But on a side note, right before the concert I had a math midterm, and I had to leave straight from the midterm to the concert. So I went to my math midterm all super dressed up (skirt, leather jacket, you know...). That was a fun experience.

Then on that Friday I went to the Blackhawks/ Blue Jackets home opener game with Amy. Oh my god. Student ticket pricing is amazing. For the lower bowl, no matter what game, tickets are $25. Do you know how good of a deal that is? At Nationwide those seats would start at $90, and at United Center those seats where we were sitting would start at $175. But the game was a solid win for the Hawks (5-2!). Amy and I got a lot of people asking us why we were Blackhawks fans if we go to OSU. That was always a fun thing to explain.

Toews!!!!

So not this past weekend but the weekend before was Parents Weekend at Ohio State and my dad came down. Don't get me wrong, it was great seeing him, but I was just dropped off at college 4 weeks ago (well, now 5, but at the time it was 4). And that night was the UW/OSU football game. It ended up being a very sad night (or a happy night if your name is Jack Jablonsky). My dad and I went to a view party at the football practice field, and at the end of the game everyone sung Carmen Ohio. Let me tell you that was the saddest sounding Carmen I've ever sang/heard. It almost made me cry for the wrong reasons. But hey, we killed Purdue this week (49-0!). Oh, and that same weekend a guy named Obama came to Cbus and spoke at the Oval. IT WAS SO FREAKING COOL! Obama gave an amazing speech. I guess it was the largest crowd for an Obama rally ever (35,000+). So at one point in his speech Obama had a giant car metaphor that was talking about Dems and the GOP and how the Dems inherited a giant mess from the Bush administration and how the Dems had to fix the mess/"car" basically by themselves. At the end of the giant metaphor, Obama goes:

Obama: "What do you have to put your car in for it to go forward?"

Crowd: "D!"

Obama: "And what do you have to put your car in for it to go backwards?"

Crowd: "R!"

Get it? So. witty.

This past school week came and went. Nothing too special to report. I honestly don't even remember what happened. All I know is that I had the easiest chem lab of the year on Thursday (50 minutes instead of the normal 3 hours) and I'm pretty sure I also took the easiest calc quiz too. I best be getting 100% or else I will be upset with myself. Other than that, nothing much else. OH! I GOT MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME! Mackenzi and I are being flappers, me with a black dress and her with a white one. We open up the package yesterday to find that my dress is called "Chicago Flapper" and hers is called "Broadway Babe". For those of you that don't know Mackenzi, she is an actress and really wants to be on Broadway, and I, well, am from Chicago! We had no idea. We freaked out. It was great.

This Wednesday is Hug A Ginger Day. You all better participating!

I can finally put picture from my camera onto my mac so here is a picture or two of my dorm!

Desk! If you send me something I will probably put it on my cork board... just a little incentive :)

My clothes barely fit. I think I'm using 58/60 hangers.

I think that's all...

#1

Unless you live under a rock or go to a school that does not have a football team or just simply don't care about sport, you obviously know that Ohio State is now ranked number one in the AP Top 25. Yes, that's great and all, who doesn't want to be #1? But I really don't want to be ranked so high. Let's be ranked second again, okay?

Being ranked #1 is really the only reason I title the post the name I did. I'm not going to say that I'm trying to link football to a giant metaphor of my life right now. Seriously, I'm not that clever. I will say though that this week is going to be one of the best weeks in a long time! Tomorrow (besides my calc midterm) I get to see Muse and Metric at the Schott! SOSOSOSOSOSOOOOOOO PUMPED! Plus the tickets were only $30 (thanks D-Tix!) compared to $100+ in Chicago. And then on Thursday with my mentor I am going to take a belaying class so I can become certified to do the ropes when people rock climb (plus I can use OSU's rock wall whenever I want then!). Friday I get to go to the Bluejackets home opener against none other than the Blackhawks! It'll be a blast because I found a group of Blackhawks fans on campus so we're going to be singing Chelsea Dagger after goals. It'll be great. To cap off the fun week, my dad will be coming down for parents weekend (plus Alex will be up from Cincy)! So it will be a fun week, but super busy.

Since the week is so busy I don't have time to write anything super lengthy at the moment. But the past week went by really fast. I got major sunburn at the game on Saturday and now my face is really red :( Oh, and yesterday was the start of the intramural flag football season. Ughh, do not get me started on the rules; they are very patronizing and degrading towards women. It wasn't the best of times. Plus the team we played was wayyyy too into it and name calling was thrown around (a lot towards me now that I think of it). But I will say we have the best team name: Hide Yo Kids Hide Yo Wife. Yes, we are the ENR Scholar team, but who needs to be called ENR Scholars?

Right now I am in the middle of download Inventor for my computer, which is basically a really expensive CAD program that I need for engineering and it is designed for a PC. So this might be the only time someone will hear me say I wish I had a PC at the moment. It's taking 3+ hours to download (but that's with every system) and hopefully it works. But I get it for free through Ohio State and I can use it for the next three years. It's actually a pretty sweet program but right now I just need it to download! AHHH!

Okay, gotta study for my midterm tomorrow.

(I will leave you with the awesome video)
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10100286465068625

Only at OSU...

...would academic groups schedule events around the football games. That's right, my ENR scholars group purposely scheduled the annual camping trip on an away football game. I mean, it is pretty smart of them because there would be a lot (I mean A LOT) of bitching if we had to miss a game. Back to camping. So this past weekend all first year ENR students went on an overnight camping trip to Hocking Hills in southeast Ohio. And in order to get there, we took a CABS bus. No joke. Here is a picture of the park:

It was really pretty! There were some big cliffs, and when we went off on our own, we actually climbed the cliffs. But when we first got there we went on a guided tour of the park. Let me just show you a picture of our tour guide:

Meet Patty Quack. He was one crazy guy. He was waayyy too into his job, but it made for a fun time! Later that evening it began to rain and it did not stop raining until we got back to campus and even then it was drizzling. We had a delicious meal of hot dogs, burgers and PB&J, and then around 7:30 Mackenzi and I headed to bed. Yeah, 7:30 pm. We were so tired. So we curled up in our super intense sleeping bags (they can go down to -18°C!) and slept in a very cozy (6 man) tent. The rain was very soothing and out stuff did not that wet at all (and thank goodness for rain boots!)! It was a very warm night of 13.5 hours of sleep. In the morning we actually had a hot breakfast which was really nice since I haven't had a hot breakfast since I left home. But everyone wanted to go home after breakfast but we were scheduled to go on another hike. In the rain. We FINALLY headed back to campus around 11:45, and everyone on the CABS bus was asleep. So we're dead tired, right, and we drop off our stuff at the ARC, and we board the bus to go back to the dorms when we find out we had to set up our tents again for the staff. We weren't the happiest people to be around, but we did our job and set up the rainy, muddy tents. We finally made it back to campus and just in time to get brunch at North Commons. Overall, it was a pretty fun weekend!

Besides camping, the past week was relatively uneventful. I did, though, go on a midnight rainy walk through campus with my floor bff Brian, pictured here:

"Walk in the rain... while you still can"

We actually take a lot of late night walks together now that I think of it. This past Sunday we went to Buckeye Donuts at 2 am. (It's kind of scary how dead High is at 2 am on a Sunday. I mean, it's expected because it's a Sunday, but if you go on High at 2 am on a Friday or Saturday, a little different.) So yeah, walking in the pouring rain was fun stuff.

I also played a lot of sand volleyball this past week. Team Funeral represent! Actually, a lot of my floor does a lot of sports together. Ultimate, basketball, volleyball, wallyball, and they all seem to be really late at night. Now that I think of it, our floor likes to do a lot of stuff late at night. Including my RA, who does not seem to enforce quite hours (which is nice, not gonna lie). My RA!

Meet Kerry

Other random thoughts from the week:

• Dried mangoes are delicious

 

Brian and Aaron eating some dried mangoes

• I'm on the ENR flag football team
• People can be very mean to freshman (I'm talking to you, senior RA from Haverfield!)
• Marcus, who lives on my floor, is trying out for the baseball team

 Good luck Marcus!

• The best deal at Ohio State? Cheeseburger as a side!
• Happy birthday to Andreas, Mason, Magda, and Kermit!!! They all have birthdays this week!

That is all for now. I'm going to leave you with a song from my favorite band at the moment, Florence + the Machine. I'm actually in love with their CD. It's all I've been listening to all week/weekend. Okay, here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxO-yPQesA

One Week Down

I've officially have been at college for a week now. But the thing is, it feels like I have been here for way longer than just a week. Not in the sense that the time is passing so slowly, but more along the lines of I feel so well adjusted, and we just jumped right into classes. I guess you could say that would be a good thing.

While living in Ohio for the next few months I will have to opportunity to eat food that's really only available in the Columbus/Ohio area. I'm rather excited about this because I was getting quite sick of eating pretty much only chain food back in Crystal Lake. Last night I ate Cane's for the first time. It was the most delicious chicken finger I've ever eaten. And the toast? I didn't even know toast could be that good. This place seriously only sells chicken fingers and has only four options on the menu, and they're a booming business. Who knew! I've also gotten a chance to eat at PJ's. Let me tell you that this place has some high quality subs. I decided to order the Fat Juggernaut. And do you know what is on the Fat Juggernaut? No? Let me tell you. Chicken fingers, hush puppies, banana peppers, curly fries, bbq & ranch sauce. I feel disgusting thinking about it. But I'm also pretty excited that I can get sushi for only a swipe with my meal plan! Plus the sushi is legit good.

So of course I would write a GIANT paragraph about food. Little has changed. And yes that paragraph makes me sounds like a fat ass but I am eating healthy! I swear! But that's besides the point. This past weekend officially wrapped up Welcome Week, and Weezer capped off the week with a free concert on the South Oval. Holy crap. That was one of the best shows I have ever seen! Weezer is such an AMAZING band live, and the only song that was iffy was their newest one, Memories. They opened with Hash Pipe and finished off the encore with Buddy Holly. Towards the end of the show Weezer did an awesome cover of Kids which turned into mash-up of Poker Face (Weezer made Lady Gaga sound good!). One of the best songs of the concert! Plus Rivers Cuomo (who possibly had the best quote of the night: "O-HI-O MUTHAFUCKAS!" and yes it's okay to say this stuff now cause we're all in college, right?) crowd surfed from a point in the crowd to the stage and he went right over my little group. So what I'm trying to say is that I touched Rivers. I might have potentially accosted him due to the face that he crowd surfed face down, which lead to someone taking his glasses.

 

(taken from my phone)

So yeah, we were pretty close and being that close leads to crowd surfers being dropped on you. Luckily it wasn't as bad as Flogging Molly, but I did have a few people dropped on me and I got kicked a few times. All is well.

And being in college means free stuff!

(two more pairs of free sunglasses!)

And giant books!

(but luckily this will last me a few chem classes)

And twinkies!

(brad and mackenzi showing some twinkie love)

Classes are going swimmingly (and thank you Mrs. Brockland for preparing me so well for college labs. Without all the labs in AP Chem I would be screwed for my labs!). My math professor is from either the UK or Australia (we are literally having this debate in recitation because no one knows) and his last name is Leary. Do you think he would mind if I called him O'Leary? But all my professors speak English as their first language so I can pretty much understand what they are saying. Oh, and I like my engineering class which is probably a good thing since I'm an engineering major.

And Saturday was the first football game with the students back (and my second one in my life... 5th grade was my first OSU game) and I was one of the few lucky freshman get Block O tickets (BO North to be exact). I wont go into too much detail about the game but I will say I am still in shock that Tressel let us run up the score. That has NEVER happen in the Tressel era. Oh, and Block O North's favorite player. Oh and I legit got sunburned on Saturday. I have sunglass burn lines on the right side of my face. Awesome.

That's all for now!

College

So, I have been a college student for approximately 48 hours now. Finally, after three weeks since my last friend abandoned me in Crystal Lake, I have found my way to the Ohio State campus, and I must say, I kinda like college. I don't think I can say I love it yet, because I mean, can you love something for only experiencing 2 days of it? I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of college and freedom and doing whatever the hell you want, but college as a whole? Ask me in a week.

As most of you know, Ohio State is messed up since they start so late, it shouldn't come as a surprise that classes would start RIGHT AWAY!. Yeah, my first class is tomorrow. Awesome. Engineering 181 here I come! I'm kinda bummed that we start classes tomorrow because these past two days have been jammed packed with stuff. I feel like I have to do so much stuff today before classes start. I just feel rushed. Whatever, in ten weeks I will be starting winter break. And I really shouldn't be complaining; I have had friends in classes for weeks now.

So I don't know how many of you know this but I am in the Environmental & Natural Resources scholars program here at OSU, and basically we love doing things nature-y. YAY NATURE! This morning I had to do mandatory volunteering. Ironic, no? So i had to get up at 7 am and I didn't get back until 2. I wasn't a happy camper. But hey, I got to weed and pull vines from fences in the Olentangy Wetlands. WOO!

I'm not going to lie, I have lost my train of thought. I left halfway through writing this to go pick up my books (waited in an hour line and they weren't "ready" yet) and now I am back annnddd I don't even know what my next paragraph was going to be about. Sorry about that!

I was going to post a picture of my dorm for everyone to see but for some reason my mac isn't recognizing my camera when I turn it on. So you might not get pictures until winter break. Sorry!

Well, I'm going now! Bye!

(I really need a better closing... I'll work on that.)

Two Weeks Left

Two weeks from now I will be off to college, moved into my dorm, meeting my roommates, starting a new part of my life. But I'm sitting in my room imagining all these different scenarios of how September 19th will play out. Will I like all my roommates? Will I have a cool floor? Will everything even fit in my dorm? The more and more I start thinking about school the more and more I want to go. I envy all my friends already at school, hearing their stories about "how awesome college is!" and like things. I'm sick of hearing all these stories; I just want to experience the damn thing! But for now, I just need to pack. More importantly, I need to figure out how many shoes I am going to pack.

If you're reading this blog, you probably know where I am going to school because I probably forced you to read this. But if for some strange reason you stumbled upon this lovely blog and have no idea who I am, I will tell you right now that I am going to Ohio State and hoping to major in environmental engineering. This fine university is home of many wonderful traditions. And I will be spending my Saturdays here:

Pretty great place, no? Especially during a championship season run... Okay, enough about Buckeye football.

So yes, I am going to be spending my next four years at OSU but while I'm there, my friends and family are going to be spread out all over the country and that's pretty much why I'm writing this thing - for people to stay in touch. I have friends going to school in D.C., Florida, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Illinois, Germany. You name it, I probably know someone there. And on top of that, my family is still where I left them! So essentially I'm going to update this bad boy from week to week so you guys can know what I'm up to. Simple as that.

So bye?