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Hello all!
My spring break officially starts at 3pm, so I’m really excited. My dad is working in Wisconsin this week and he’s picking me up as soon as I’m done with classes for the day. I am beyond excited to be going home for a week, even though going home isn’t much more relaxing than being here. It will still be a nice change of pace and I can’t wait to see everyone.
This week wasn’t too bad. I had a paper due on Tuesday in my Slavery in Africa and the Americas class and a review for my Sociology midterm. Other than that, the week was pretty slow. Yesterday I had a meeting with the study abroad office. I’m studying abroad spring 2011 and I’m doing one of the SIT study abroad programs in Africa. I haven’t decided which country yet so I’m going to go over everything with my mom while I’m home. I am really excited to get the process started because the SIT program is very different from the normal study abroad programs. Instead of going to a university I would do field-based programs, intensive native language studies, home stays in rural and urban settings, and an independent study research project. It should be a great experience so I’m looking forward to getting things moving forward.
Three things I’m looking forward to:
1. Going home!
2. No homework
3. Sleeping in
Until next time…
Hello all!
So as promised: an update on the Soul Food Dinner. Once again it was a great success this year. I’m pretty sure we’ve sold out every year since SNC started having the Soul Food Dinner and this year wasn’t any different. It was a lot of fun seeing so many different members of not only the college community, but people from the surrounding area as well. I opened the program with an interview with Dr. Kramer and then we had a few cultural presentations. There was a short presentation on Haiti, which was really sad, but we took donations during the presentation and raised a decent amount of money.
As always, dinner was the best part of the event. It’s always so good that everyone wants to go back for seconds…and thirds. Our keynote speaker this year was Dr. Julianne Malveaux of Bennett College for Women. She talked about the history of African American economic empowerment, and really had an interesting point of view. Listening to her was a lot of fun. Every year there is also a cultural dance presentation. I didn’t think this year’s was as good as the one last year, but it was still fun to watch.
The rest of the week was just a blur with one thing leading into the next. I had meetings for the WPCID conference that is coming up in April. Now that we’re in March, it feels like the amount of time we have to plan is falling away too quickly. I also have a paper due today and a midterm in my Christian Tradition class. Wish me luck!
Three things I’m looking forward to:
1. Academy Awards on Sunday!
2. Meeting with a study abroad adviser Thursday
3. SPRING BREAK!!!!
Until next time…
Hello all!
I hope everyone had a good week, mine was extremely busy. It was definitely one of those weeks where I felt like I needed an extra day to get everything done. I had my first exam for my Survey of African History class on Wednesday. It was mostly essays and I think that it went pretty well. Today I have the first paper for my Christian Tradition class due. I had to analyze a primary source, which ended up being a little more difficult than I thought it would be, but otherwise it wasn’t too bad. We’re playing Monopoly today in my sociology class. The plan is to use it as a way to look into some of the basics of American values and culture. For me, it will just be a good way to wind down the week.
I am really excited for this weekend because today is my birthday and tomorrow is the Soul Food Dinner! I’m just going to chill out and relax tonight because it’s been such a long week. Tomorrow is going to be busy again because I’m introducing the MC for the dinner, who is actually my Slavery in Africa and the America’s professor. I’m going to have rehearsals and other things to do beforehand. The Soul Food Dinner is a really great Black History Month event so if you’re going, great. If not, definitely keep it in mind for next year. I’ll tell you all about it next week.
Three things I’m looking forward to:
1. Getting some sleep
2. Men’s/Women’s Basketball Conference Tournament
3. My friend Elise’s birthday next week
Until next time…
Hey everyone,
This week went by really fast. I had a planning meeting for April’s diversity conference on Tuesday. I’m heading up two planning committees for it so I’m going to be really busy organizing a lot of the logistics and marketing aspects. It should be a fun conference though, so I’m really looking forward to it. I have a band concert tomorrow night and on Sunday the music department is hosting the Winter Bandfest Concert for high schools. They should both be really good concerts if anyone is interested.
My workload is definitely starting to pick up, but it’s not unmanageable. I have a paper due next Friday for my Christian Tradition class. We have to select and analyze a primary religious document from the first 200 years of the Common Era, so this should be interesting. Slavery in Africa and the Americas is still my favorite course this semester because I find the evolution of slavery really interesting. It’s also nice that I’m taking Survey of African History so I have different information that can go between the two classes.
Three things I’m looking forward to this week:
1. Band concert tomorrow
2. Getting my first round of exams out of the way
3. My birthday
Until next time…
Hello all,
I hope everyone had a good weekend/week. I spent most of the weekend in Green Bay at my mom’s best friend’s house. It was nice getting off campus for a while and I love going there because it’s so much, just like my house. I babysat Saturday, so I wasn’t able to go to the Haiti dance on campus, but I heard it was a lot of fun.
This week went by extremely fast, which wasn’t a good thing because I think I jinxed myself last week when I said I wasn’t behind on homework. I am now. I have two papers due today, and I just barely managed to finish them, plus a lot of reading I need to catch up on. Otherwise, my classes are still going pretty well. This week in sociology we were focusing on culture and the media’s effect on what people consider important. We played a trivia game and it was really interesting to realize how much we know about the Hollywood scene and how little we know about things that actually effect us.
Yesterday was the Board of Trustees Scholarship Luncheon, which is for the students who receive certain scholarships from the school. I’d been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks because the food is always really good and it’s a great chance to mingle with some of the more influential people in the college community.
Three things I’m looking forward to this week:
1. Catching up on homework (hopefully)
2. Men’s/Women’s basketball games this weekend
3. Meeting for the honors program on Tuesday
Until next time…
Hey everyone!!
Hope you all had a fun and safe winter break and are ready for the new semester! I can’t believe how fast my break went! It was really relaxing and nice to be home for a while though. My family is so busy we pretty much just fell into the normal routine of everyone needing to be in ten different places at once. We did manage to get over to Sparta, WI to see some of my mom’s family, which was nice for me because I haven’t had time to go out there since last April.
The new semester started and so far it’s looking pretty good. None of my classes seem like they’re going to have an unmanageable workload and the professors all seem reasonable. My most interesting class so far is definitely Slavery in Africa and the Americas, which is taught by Professor Kramer. Right now we’re just learning about the concepts of being a slave versus being “free” and how they changed over time, but it’s really interesting to learn how slavery developed from the ancient world up to the present. I’m also taking a Christian Tradition honors course, Survey of African History, and Intro to Sociology, all of which seem like they’ll be fairly interesting.
The weekend should be fun because it’s still early enough in the semester that I’m not completely behind on homework. Plus, there’s a dance Saturday night that is going to raise money for Haiti!
Three things I’m looking forward to this week:
1. Board of Trustees Scholarship Luncheon
2. Catching up on sleep
3. First planning meeting for the diversity conference we’re hosting in April
Until next time…
Hey everyone!!
I’m really excited because in 3 hours I will officially be on winter break! I have a final at 11 in my geography class that should be pretty easy, then it’s home sweet home! It’s been really busy trying to study for finals and get everything packed and ready for today. Plus, I have a new roommate and she is moving in today, which makes things much more hectic.
I don’t really have any huge plans for the break. I’m going to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Monday with my Mom. We do it every year so that we have time together without my siblings or my dad being around. I’m also going to visit my mom’s family in Sparta, WI before the New Year, which I’m really excited about because I haven’t seen them since April. Other than that I’m just really looking forward to seeing some of my friends who I haven’t seen since summer and just relaxing for a couple of weeks.
Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday!
Until next time…
Hello all,
Today is the last day of classes for the semester, and the stress is definitely piling up because professors just love to cram as much into the last week as they possibly can. The week started out pretty slow, but I have two exams today, so things got a little more hectic as the week went on. I’m dreading my stats exam, but at the same time I’m glad I managed to make it through the course instead of dropping it because now I (hopefully) won’t have to suffer through it again. The material on this exam was a little easier for me to understand than some of the other things we’ve covered, so I’m praying it won’t be too bad. My other exam is in my Modern East Asia class, which I’m not worried about because I’ve done well on all of my other exams for that class.
My weekend will be completely dedicated to stats because, of course it is my first final next week and it is on Monday. Wish me luck. My other exams aren’t until Thursday and Friday, and one is an online exam that I can take any time I want, so I’ll be able to give my brain a break for at least a day before I have to worry about another exam. I’m also going to have to pack up half my room at some point so I can leave right after my last final on Friday. I’m so excited for the semester to be over and to be able to spend an extended amount of time at home.
Until next time…
Hi everyone,
Thanksgiving break was kind of a blur. I was really busy from the second I got home all the way through Sunday, so it wasn’t what you would call a relaxing break. Wednesday I helped my mom with some of the baking for Thanksgiving, which is never fun because she always gets mad at me for not doing something right. I left her eventually and went to see New Moon with my best friends instead. Thanksgiving was fun. The Packers played (and won), I was able to see my cousin who’s in her first year of college now, and we had some other people I haven’t seen in a while over that evening. Plus, playing Rock Band for hours with my siblings is always a good time.
Friday I woke up at 3am for Black Friday shopping. I stood in line at Target for an hour to get the camera I wanted for Christmas and my mom won’t even let me have it until Christmas (even though I’m the one that stood in line for it while she was in bed asleep!). The rest of the weekend was mostly spent putting up Christmas decorations inside and out. Fortunately, there wasn’t any snow last weekend. That made the five hours I spent outside much more bearable. One more week of classes and then finals!
Until next time…
Hello all,
Four days and counting until Thanksgiving break! They had Thanksgiving dinner at the cafeteria last night, which is always amazing (mostly because the deserts are delicious). I’m beyond excited to be going home for a few days, but when I get back there are only two weeks left of classes before finals week. This is usually the point where I wish the days were twice as long because professors try to pack in so much material before the end of the semester. It makes it feel like time is moving at warp speed.
This week was pretty busy. I ended up going home for the weekend, so naturally I got absolutely nothing for this week done. I registered for classes yesterday and was fortunate enough to get into all of the ones I wanted, and then spent the rest of the day studying for today’s statistics exam. There were no classes Wednesday for advisement, but I had a planning meeting for a diversity conference we’re holding in April. I went to the conference last year at Alverno College and it was a great learning experience. There were breakout sessions where we discussed different issues that go along with diversity, particularly at a small college, and it was really interesting to hear from students at other colleges. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I’m really excited to help plan this year’s conference.
Until next time…
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