It's almost Christmas, which means it's almost the new year, which means that I've had this blog for about half a year which means I'm bored. With a lot of things.
Hence the new blog layout. Awhile ago I posted a poll asking who would want me to change the layout of my blog. I got a total of 3 responses. And guess what they all voted? I don't care. And you know what? I realized that I didn't really care if you cared or not, so I was going to do whatever I wanted anyway. Perhaps that's selfish. And I apologize for that.
Well, anyways, I did change my layout, if you hadn't noticed yet. I realized it's quite girly, so to my male readers: embrace your feminine side. Equal rights and all that jazz.
Anywho. You're probably thinking, "Oh, she said she's bored with a lot of things. Either she's exaggerating, or she hasn't told us the other things she's bored with."
Ding ding ding. You're one smart cookie, reader.
I am bored with other things. Namely, my room.
It's been about 4 months since I've lived in my little dorm room, and I've about gotten tired of its monotony. It's the typical dorm room. But I want something different. So this Thursday, it will be different. It will happen. My new roomie wants her bed un-lofted, so me, Jess, and whoever else is brave enough will attempt to do that ourselves. Because we're women gosh dang it, and we are going to make it happen whether you like it or not.
I apologize again for my sassy-ness. Totes uncalled for.
It's just that I have a renewal of energy right now. 4 of my finals have been completed (Hallelujah) and I only have one more left, which isn't even until Friday. Meaning I have 1 and a half days to do whatever the heck I feel like. (Yes, it will include some studying. But mostly not). It's exciting. For like the first time in 4 months, I have nothing I need to do. It's exhilarating.
And that's what break will be like. 3. Whole. Weeks. Of pure relaxation. (Okay, that's a lie. I have to work and stuff. But still.)
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
In other news, I realized that I've trained my body that about 6 hours of sleep is sufficient. Because this week I've been getting a lot of sleep since none of my finals start until 10:30. And I've been getting a solid 8 hours the past couple nights. But last night...I couldn't sleep. It was as if my brain was on overdrive. Or my bladder. I just really had to pee. Anyways, I met Alyssa in the bathroom, who was taking a break from her studying. We were both bored, so we decided to explore. Which meant we wanted to find out what was behind all the closed, locked doors on our floor. We looked up how to pick a lock with a bobby pin (thanks Google) but to no avail. We didn't get a single door opened. We also went to the basement to find out if we could unlock any of those doors and if we could find the secret underground tunnel between Shreve and the neighboring residence hall, Earhart. Again, we couldn't find anything. Boo. We went to bed instead.
I meet with my research professor for next semester again today. Remind me to tell you about that project. Because I'm PSYCHED about it. I think. We'll see after our second meeting today.
13 days until Christmas.
Purdue
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
"Studying."
Click HERE if you want to see an awesome video.
Yes, this is what we do instead of studying for finals. Have a very Merry Christmas :)
Yes, this is what we do instead of studying for finals. Have a very Merry Christmas :)
One Down, Four To Go.
One final down.
Four to go.
One more tonight.
One tomorrow.
One Wednesday.
One Friday.
Gimme a second while I let that sink in. I still can't believe my first semester as a college kid is almost over. I'll be home in a matter of days. I can do this. Just keep pushing through.
Excuse my self-motivational speech there.
My Spanish final this morning was slightly more difficult than everyone had expected. Which kind of stunk. Nobody wants a difficult final; no way no how. But hey, it's over now. Thank goodness. I have my EDCI Educational Technology final at 3:30 which will consist of my BSing a lot of stuff, because that's what most of the class was. Heck, they should just call it BS 101 so I can say I got an A in BSing! That'd look good on a resume, right?
Found out that my mom has been sick :( Shout-out to my mama! Hope you feel better soon!
Guess what? 15 days until Christmas! I'm listening to the Christmas Pandora station as we speak. I think the fact that I don't really listen to the radio much here and am not constantly listening to Christmas music makes it that much more special when I do listen to it! Which, as Jess and I decided, is the way it should be.
I'm really in the mood for some snow too! It would just make the Christmas season that much more real.
Gotta study! Adios!
Four to go.
One more tonight.
One tomorrow.
One Wednesday.
One Friday.
Gimme a second while I let that sink in. I still can't believe my first semester as a college kid is almost over. I'll be home in a matter of days. I can do this. Just keep pushing through.
Excuse my self-motivational speech there.
My Spanish final this morning was slightly more difficult than everyone had expected. Which kind of stunk. Nobody wants a difficult final; no way no how. But hey, it's over now. Thank goodness. I have my EDCI Educational Technology final at 3:30 which will consist of my BSing a lot of stuff, because that's what most of the class was. Heck, they should just call it BS 101 so I can say I got an A in BSing! That'd look good on a resume, right?
Found out that my mom has been sick :( Shout-out to my mama! Hope you feel better soon!
Guess what? 15 days until Christmas! I'm listening to the Christmas Pandora station as we speak. I think the fact that I don't really listen to the radio much here and am not constantly listening to Christmas music makes it that much more special when I do listen to it! Which, as Jess and I decided, is the way it should be.
I'm really in the mood for some snow too! It would just make the Christmas season that much more real.
Gotta study! Adios!
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Christmas Spirit.
18 more days.
Every room on my floor has this number somewhere. On a dry-erase board. On a mirror. On a calendar.
Christmas will be here soon, and we here at Purdue are getting into the holiday spirit...
...With decorations...
The giant gingerbread house in the Memorial Union! There is also one in each of the dining courts.
The giant Christmas tree in the Union
...And with food.
The holiday dessert buffet from Wednesday. The line was ridiculous.
Some other news...
SQUIRRELS!
In preparation for finals, our floor has decided to turn our mirrors into Positive Reflection boards. We have a bunch of dry erase markers and dry erase crayons to write inspiring messages to each other. And yes, that is Ryan Gosling in the corner.
I had my last class of the semester today! Crazy to think that my freshman year is almost over!
Tonight is Battle of the Sexes, our floor, 4E vs. the guys side, 4W. Good thing I suck at trivia.
So for those of you who may not know, Purdue is a huge engineering school. In my residence hall (Shreve), several of the floors are Honors Engineering Learning Community floors, so it is not unlikely to see engineering groups working on their projects in the study lounges here. Most recently, they had to complete a project where they had to build a robot that did different tasks. It was quite amusing to see these little robots rolling around on the floor everywhere in Shreve and seeing Engineering groups fight for the best study lounge spots. I honestly don't understand half of these references, but all the engineers here think it's hilarious. I myself just think it's awesome because I love school-related videos.
(Just some Purdue references for you: the fountain they are singing by is the Engineering fountain--how fitting. The rooms and lobby are in Shreve, and one of the guys sitting on the futon playing video games is a guy I know from the 5th floor!)
I hope all is well with everyone at home/elsewhere! To those with finals coming up: good luck!
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Bipolar Weather, Three-Person Raves, And Other News.
Be prepared.
I'm about to dump quite a bit of information on you. This post will contain tidbits about my past week that may perplex you, but only because there are so many of them. And for organization purposes, I'll label each tidbit with some key words so you know ahead of time whether you want to read it or not. Also, there aren't many pictures. I'll try to relieve your eyes from the endless stream of text every so often with some random pictures.
Tidbit Numero 1: Frappacinos. Starbucks. Yum.
College isn't college if there isn't a Starbucks nearby. And Starbucks isn't a Starbucks if there isn't a constant line of people waiting anxiously for some caffeine to amp up their system.
Welcome to the Starbucks at Purdue Memorial Union, where you never wait less than 15 minutes for coffee. There's always a huge line. But it's always oh so worth it.
In fact, I've found a new love. When the air changed and got crisper and cooler, (wait, no it didn't. Who am I kidding?) Starbucks decided to rid themselves of one of my favorite drinks: the pumpkin spice latte. I don't think so, Starbucks. It's still technically fall. Bring me back my pumpkin. I was distraught. I cried in my bed for days. I boycotted Starbucks and protested in the front of the store. None of the last three sentences are true. But despite my disappointment, my life had to go on. Instead, I got a salted caramel mocha frappacino. And oh my goodness, cue chorus of angels and rainbows and unicorns and butterflies. That drink was incredibly delicious. I highly recommend it, if you don't have any other vices that already add a little too much to your daily calorie count.
Tidbit Numero 2: Pinterest. Addicted. Obsessed. Accident.
I really didn't mean to. I promise! But it happened: I love Pinterest now. I've had an account since about a year ago, but only last night did I discover the true wonders of the website. Boy, do I wish I had more time. And money. And a car to drive to Hobby Lobby to buy the necessary equipment for the endless number of projects I want to make. Why, college? Why?
Tidbit Numero 3: Late. Shorts. Snow.
That awkward moment when you wake up at 9:20 and your class is at 9:30 and it's 10 minutes away and you're looking like a hot mess so you still need to get ready and that takes 10 minutes so already your class has started and you haven't walked out the door so you throw on some shorts even though it's 30 degrees because they're the most comfortable attire to speed-walk to class in and when you get outside you see snow on the ground from last night's flurries and you're cold and you get to class in record time and you walk in and it's already started and there's a presenter and your teacher pardons you from your tardiness because someone told her you were sick, which is slightly but not really true.
Tidbit Numero 4: Weather. Bipolar. Skipping winter?
So that last story involved snow. And yesterday I was wearing shorts again, but this time it was actually warm out. As in 65 degrees warm. Can we please pause and acknowledge the fact that it was December 3rd? And now it's raining. Okay, Mother Nature.
Tidbit Numero 5: Official. Large and in charge.
Remember how I told you I was elected Vice-President for Purdue Student Education Association (PSEA)? Well, I daresay it's official now. Because I got the actual binder. The binder with all you ever wanted to know and more about being VP of PSEA. It's crazy and it freaks me out but I'm really excited.
Tidbit Numero 6. Potential. TA.
I sent in my application to be an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) for my EDCI 27000 Educational Technology class next semester. It's a paid position. That's pretty sweet if you ask me. We'll see if I get it!
Tidbit Numero 7. Science. Skit. Soap opera. 5 hours.
Last Wednesday. Where do I begin?
6:45: Arrive at McCutcheon residence hall to begin project.
6:50-6:55: Explore the building a little. Creepy bathrooms. Creepy hallways. Creepy.
7:00-7:10: Chat with the group. Sit there. Get stuff out.
7:10-11:00: Work on stupid project for Biology class the next day. Come up with a script for our soap opera skit. Practice our skit. Twice. Take pictures in our costumes for the opening entrance music (General Hospital). Make video. Look up informational videos. Come up with class activity. Consult rubric. Refrain from ripping hair out in frustration.
Finally perform skit without a hitch on Thursday. Only to have to get together again last night to work on another project that is due in an hour. Only to have to take an exam on Thursday. Only to have to take our final next Friday. Get. Me. Out.
Tidbit Numero 8: Relief. Hooray. Jumping for joy. Weight off my shoulders.
Did you know about the honors contract I've been "working on" all semester for Bio? (Just another project to add to the never-ending list from above). It's done. As in finished. As in I never have to look up another research article, write another notecard, sit at my computer trying not to smack my head on my desk, ever, ever, EVER again. At least until next semester.
I thought I had been able to pride myself in my time management skills. Ha. Guess not. I've had this project for a semester...and entire semester...and finished it the night before it was due. I wrote out the entire 9 and a half page paper last Monday and also a 4 page summary about the analysis of the survey I conducted the night before. I'm honestly pretty proud of it though. I think I do my best work last minute when it comes to things like this. It puts the pressure on. I did it junior year in high school too...a paper we had a month to write and I wrote it the weekend before it was due. Teehee.
Needless to say, it's such a relief that it's over. I don't know if I ever said in previous posts, but I had to do this project outside of class to get honors credit for it since I wasn't able to fit an honors course into my schedule this semester. I did it with my EDCI 27000 class too, so I should be getting 6 honors credit hours this semester!
Tidbit Numero 9: Music. Christmas. Awesome.
Saturday was the Purdue Music Organization annual Christmas show! It was so awesome! I went with 6 friends and I knew one of the girls in the show. It was amazingggg.
Tidbit Numero 10: Please. No more. Spare me.
Next semester...oh boy. More research. But this time, it's with a professor. This is for my DeVito scholars class. Not only do we get to go on fun field trips next semester, but we also get to do this research. I found out my professor a couple weeks ago...Dr. Servaty-Seib. She studies how children deal with grief, which I think will be pretty interesting. I meet with her tomorrow to see how I can help with the work she is currently doing. So, despite my somewhat complicated relationship with research, (I hate you. Wow, this is interesting. I'd rather be sleeping. Woah, I never knew that! Papers suck. I'm so proud of the result!) I'm excited to be a part of it. I think.
Tidbit Numero 11: Dance. Rave. Where is everyone?
Friday. Time to relax. Time to unwind. Time to go to a 3 person rave?
Friday night, I joined Laura and Kristen (from my DeVito class) in quite an interesting experience. Kristen said Wiley, her residence hall, was having a rave that night at 7. So we went. Except we couldn't find a rave. Anywhere. We scoured that residence hall, searching for some music, some lights, a group of more than 2 people...anything that would indicate a crazy rave like we experienced during Dance Marathon. Instead, we found a sign that said it wasn't starting until 9 now. Great. So we went to Kristen's room and watched TV for awhile. We made a list of Kristen's dream guy qualities. (No, Kristen. Straggly beards are NOT attractive). Then we went back down for the rave at 9.
Dark room. Red and green laser lights. Glow sticks. Fog machine.
10 people in the room.
In the words of Macklemore in "Thrift Shop," what, what, what what??
Where was everyone?
Oh well. More glow-sticks for us. We each had at least 15. We danced crazily. We emerged through the fog in the fog machine. We made glow-stick belts, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, hula hoops, jump-ropes. We stood on chairs. We danced on tables. We were the only three in the room for a time. We were the rave.
Tidbit Numero 12: Anti-Amish, Obama, Catholic. Spaghetti. Country folk.
Sunday night, Laura invited me to her friend from back home's apartment for dinner. There were 6 of us there. We had spaghetti, garlic bread, and apple dumplings. It was delicious.
Albeit slightly uncomfortable.
I've never really been around country people for an extended amount of time before. Woah.
I don't think I've ever met such opinionated people. They were strongly against Amish, Democrats, and Catholics. Oh, and their other roommate. Awkward. I left dinner to go to church. As in the Catholic church. As in they teased me a little.
It was quite the experience, that's all I have to say. Still fun though.
(PS, if you ever notice a lack of toilet paper in Beering, they steal it. And also, don't drink out of the lion fountain on campus for awhile. Apparently they pee in it for fun.)
Tidbit Numero 13: Changes. New People.
Did I mention I have a new roomie? Her name is April and she'll move in next semester. She seems pretty cool and nice, so I can't wait to meet her! She's a civil engineering major and she's 19, a sophomore.
I'm about to dump quite a bit of information on you. This post will contain tidbits about my past week that may perplex you, but only because there are so many of them. And for organization purposes, I'll label each tidbit with some key words so you know ahead of time whether you want to read it or not. Also, there aren't many pictures. I'll try to relieve your eyes from the endless stream of text every so often with some random pictures.
This is me about to dump information on you. Hehe.
Tidbit Numero 1: Frappacinos. Starbucks. Yum.
College isn't college if there isn't a Starbucks nearby. And Starbucks isn't a Starbucks if there isn't a constant line of people waiting anxiously for some caffeine to amp up their system.
Welcome to the Starbucks at Purdue Memorial Union, where you never wait less than 15 minutes for coffee. There's always a huge line. But it's always oh so worth it.
In fact, I've found a new love. When the air changed and got crisper and cooler, (wait, no it didn't. Who am I kidding?) Starbucks decided to rid themselves of one of my favorite drinks: the pumpkin spice latte. I don't think so, Starbucks. It's still technically fall. Bring me back my pumpkin. I was distraught. I cried in my bed for days. I boycotted Starbucks and protested in the front of the store. None of the last three sentences are true. But despite my disappointment, my life had to go on. Instead, I got a salted caramel mocha frappacino. And oh my goodness, cue chorus of angels and rainbows and unicorns and butterflies. That drink was incredibly delicious. I highly recommend it, if you don't have any other vices that already add a little too much to your daily calorie count.
College kids hyped up on coffee.
Tidbit Numero 2: Pinterest. Addicted. Obsessed. Accident.
I really didn't mean to. I promise! But it happened: I love Pinterest now. I've had an account since about a year ago, but only last night did I discover the true wonders of the website. Boy, do I wish I had more time. And money. And a car to drive to Hobby Lobby to buy the necessary equipment for the endless number of projects I want to make. Why, college? Why?
Tidbit Numero 3: Late. Shorts. Snow.
That awkward moment when you wake up at 9:20 and your class is at 9:30 and it's 10 minutes away and you're looking like a hot mess so you still need to get ready and that takes 10 minutes so already your class has started and you haven't walked out the door so you throw on some shorts even though it's 30 degrees because they're the most comfortable attire to speed-walk to class in and when you get outside you see snow on the ground from last night's flurries and you're cold and you get to class in record time and you walk in and it's already started and there's a presenter and your teacher pardons you from your tardiness because someone told her you were sick, which is slightly but not really true.
Tidbit Numero 4: Weather. Bipolar. Skipping winter?
So that last story involved snow. And yesterday I was wearing shorts again, but this time it was actually warm out. As in 65 degrees warm. Can we please pause and acknowledge the fact that it was December 3rd? And now it's raining. Okay, Mother Nature.
Tidbit Numero 5: Official. Large and in charge.
Remember how I told you I was elected Vice-President for Purdue Student Education Association (PSEA)? Well, I daresay it's official now. Because I got the actual binder. The binder with all you ever wanted to know and more about being VP of PSEA. It's crazy and it freaks me out but I'm really excited.
Tidbit Numero 6. Potential. TA.
I sent in my application to be an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) for my EDCI 27000 Educational Technology class next semester. It's a paid position. That's pretty sweet if you ask me. We'll see if I get it!
Tidbit Numero 7. Science. Skit. Soap opera. 5 hours.
Last Wednesday. Where do I begin?
6:45: Arrive at McCutcheon residence hall to begin project.
6:50-6:55: Explore the building a little. Creepy bathrooms. Creepy hallways. Creepy.
7:00-7:10: Chat with the group. Sit there. Get stuff out.
7:10-11:00: Work on stupid project for Biology class the next day. Come up with a script for our soap opera skit. Practice our skit. Twice. Take pictures in our costumes for the opening entrance music (General Hospital). Make video. Look up informational videos. Come up with class activity. Consult rubric. Refrain from ripping hair out in frustration.
Finally perform skit without a hitch on Thursday. Only to have to get together again last night to work on another project that is due in an hour. Only to have to take an exam on Thursday. Only to have to take our final next Friday. Get. Me. Out.
Tidbit Numero 8: Relief. Hooray. Jumping for joy. Weight off my shoulders.
Did you know about the honors contract I've been "working on" all semester for Bio? (Just another project to add to the never-ending list from above). It's done. As in finished. As in I never have to look up another research article, write another notecard, sit at my computer trying not to smack my head on my desk, ever, ever, EVER again. At least until next semester.
I thought I had been able to pride myself in my time management skills. Ha. Guess not. I've had this project for a semester...and entire semester...and finished it the night before it was due. I wrote out the entire 9 and a half page paper last Monday and also a 4 page summary about the analysis of the survey I conducted the night before. I'm honestly pretty proud of it though. I think I do my best work last minute when it comes to things like this. It puts the pressure on. I did it junior year in high school too...a paper we had a month to write and I wrote it the weekend before it was due. Teehee.
Needless to say, it's such a relief that it's over. I don't know if I ever said in previous posts, but I had to do this project outside of class to get honors credit for it since I wasn't able to fit an honors course into my schedule this semester. I did it with my EDCI 27000 class too, so I should be getting 6 honors credit hours this semester!
Tidbit Numero 9: Music. Christmas. Awesome.
Saturday was the Purdue Music Organization annual Christmas show! It was so awesome! I went with 6 friends and I knew one of the girls in the show. It was amazingggg.
Tidbit Numero 10: Please. No more. Spare me.
Next semester...oh boy. More research. But this time, it's with a professor. This is for my DeVito scholars class. Not only do we get to go on fun field trips next semester, but we also get to do this research. I found out my professor a couple weeks ago...Dr. Servaty-Seib. She studies how children deal with grief, which I think will be pretty interesting. I meet with her tomorrow to see how I can help with the work she is currently doing. So, despite my somewhat complicated relationship with research, (I hate you. Wow, this is interesting. I'd rather be sleeping. Woah, I never knew that! Papers suck. I'm so proud of the result!) I'm excited to be a part of it. I think.
Tidbit Numero 11: Dance. Rave. Where is everyone?
Friday. Time to relax. Time to unwind. Time to go to a 3 person rave?
Friday night, I joined Laura and Kristen (from my DeVito class) in quite an interesting experience. Kristen said Wiley, her residence hall, was having a rave that night at 7. So we went. Except we couldn't find a rave. Anywhere. We scoured that residence hall, searching for some music, some lights, a group of more than 2 people...anything that would indicate a crazy rave like we experienced during Dance Marathon. Instead, we found a sign that said it wasn't starting until 9 now. Great. So we went to Kristen's room and watched TV for awhile. We made a list of Kristen's dream guy qualities. (No, Kristen. Straggly beards are NOT attractive). Then we went back down for the rave at 9.
Dark room. Red and green laser lights. Glow sticks. Fog machine.
10 people in the room.
In the words of Macklemore in "Thrift Shop," what, what, what what??
Where was everyone?
Oh well. More glow-sticks for us. We each had at least 15. We danced crazily. We emerged through the fog in the fog machine. We made glow-stick belts, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, hula hoops, jump-ropes. We stood on chairs. We danced on tables. We were the only three in the room for a time. We were the rave.
What my Friday night looked like. Minus like everyone in this picture.
Tidbit Numero 12: Anti-Amish, Obama, Catholic. Spaghetti. Country folk.
Sunday night, Laura invited me to her friend from back home's apartment for dinner. There were 6 of us there. We had spaghetti, garlic bread, and apple dumplings. It was delicious.
Albeit slightly uncomfortable.
I've never really been around country people for an extended amount of time before. Woah.
I don't think I've ever met such opinionated people. They were strongly against Amish, Democrats, and Catholics. Oh, and their other roommate. Awkward. I left dinner to go to church. As in the Catholic church. As in they teased me a little.
It was quite the experience, that's all I have to say. Still fun though.
(PS, if you ever notice a lack of toilet paper in Beering, they steal it. And also, don't drink out of the lion fountain on campus for awhile. Apparently they pee in it for fun.)
Did I mention I have a new roomie? Her name is April and she'll move in next semester. She seems pretty cool and nice, so I can't wait to meet her! She's a civil engineering major and she's 19, a sophomore.
How I feel right now. And like all the time.
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