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...