The Martin Luther King Jr. convocation was PACKED.
So many people attended that the chapel was completely full and people sat in the lobby listening to the speech.
Hollis Watkins, civil rights activist who worked with Dr. King and founded Southern Echo Inc., a non-profit leadership and educational organization. He is a very funny, intelligent man.
Over-all, magic was in the air throughout the entire day. People felt it.
It was kinda weird coming back to school after such a long time at home. I really missed a lot of the people here and it was good to see them. Home was relaxing of course, but it was good to be back.
Oh, and the last weekend before I came back to school, I spent the entire weekend with my Katie's (my girlfriend) family. Was it terrifying, you may ask? Well... of course not. I had a lot of fun. Her family rented a very very very nice home up in Brainerd and we spent the weekend relaxing. We also played a lot of board games, which i love doing.
Balderdash is the best board game ever.
Scrabble isn't played often enough.
And when I got back to school I had a poker night with some friends. After a good hour+ of playing, it was finally Jaron and I left in the game.
So I quit because I was tired and took my money and went to bed.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Happy MLK Day
I have an 8 am class tomorrow. The fact that I am watching a Man Vs. Wild marathon at 12:30 at night amazes me... What am I doing?
yesterday was a great day. Katie and i took the bus to the Minneapolis Institue of Arts Museum. (I like riding the bus for some reason..finding your way around is kind of challenging at first, which I like, but it is also a completely new experience for me... and yesterday I had a bus driver who liked to sing and announce the street names like he was a game=show host or something).
It was a lot of fun and pretty spontaneous.... we also went and ate at Noodles, which I love.
Then I did some homework and eventually took a nap... I was planning on decreasing the naps this semester, and yesterdays nap was one of my first ones since I got back to school, so i was pretty proud of myself.
And then last night about 10 of us decided to go to the club at around 11. We got to the lightrail about 30 seconds too late, so we had to wait 20 minutes for the next train to come.
While we were waiting, Tim and I were racing around the benches to keep warm. Oh, and he picked up a peice of cloth to throw it in the garbage... but it ended up being a dirty diaper.... i almost puked.
Finally, all 10 of us got out of the cold and on to the train, got to the club, and then realized that Katie forgot her drivers license... which meant no club for her.
being the nice boyfriend that I am, i went back to augsburg with her (and on the lightrail we had a nice conversation with two Minneapolis Public Transportation police officers... very nice men. we talked for about 10 minutes... i think i accidentally insulted them when i told them that i was surprised they got to carry guns around, but i think they forgave me)
We bot back to Augsburg around midnight, decided to go to Taco Bell because we were starving.
I was exhausted and we fell asleep on my couch watching tv.
Today I woke up around 11, went to lunch, did homework, and then at 1 i went to the Martin Luther King Jr. convocation....
more on that tomorrow. I need sleep.
yesterday was a great day. Katie and i took the bus to the Minneapolis Institue of Arts Museum. (I like riding the bus for some reason..finding your way around is kind of challenging at first, which I like, but it is also a completely new experience for me... and yesterday I had a bus driver who liked to sing and announce the street names like he was a game=show host or something).
It was a lot of fun and pretty spontaneous.... we also went and ate at Noodles, which I love.
Then I did some homework and eventually took a nap... I was planning on decreasing the naps this semester, and yesterdays nap was one of my first ones since I got back to school, so i was pretty proud of myself.
And then last night about 10 of us decided to go to the club at around 11. We got to the lightrail about 30 seconds too late, so we had to wait 20 minutes for the next train to come.
While we were waiting, Tim and I were racing around the benches to keep warm. Oh, and he picked up a peice of cloth to throw it in the garbage... but it ended up being a dirty diaper.... i almost puked.
Finally, all 10 of us got out of the cold and on to the train, got to the club, and then realized that Katie forgot her drivers license... which meant no club for her.
being the nice boyfriend that I am, i went back to augsburg with her (and on the lightrail we had a nice conversation with two Minneapolis Public Transportation police officers... very nice men. we talked for about 10 minutes... i think i accidentally insulted them when i told them that i was surprised they got to carry guns around, but i think they forgave me)
We bot back to Augsburg around midnight, decided to go to Taco Bell because we were starving.
I was exhausted and we fell asleep on my couch watching tv.
Today I woke up around 11, went to lunch, did homework, and then at 1 i went to the Martin Luther King Jr. convocation....
more on that tomorrow. I need sleep.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Finals Finals Finals
Wow.
It's been a LONG time since I've worked on my blog.
A LONG time.
I guess it was somewhat intentional... I really just wanted to relax over my break after the last few stressful weeks of school. So I guess I will start where I left off.
FINALS - I guess it was what I expected. I studied A LOT. I kind of felt that some of my grades were on the line between an A and B+ so I knew that I needed to do really well.
Scholar Citizen: technically, no final for this class. We just had to write our final paper, something along the lines of 'Does Western philosophy and science grant us the knowledge required to be an effective citizen in a culturally complex world?" It was a very difficult paper, mostly because Professor Crockett expects a lot from these papers and his students. He was definitely my favorite teacher and I will miss his class.
Honors Religion: hmmm... soo much to say. I studied a lot for this final, probably more than any other final. I spent an entire day (not exaggerating) in the library mostly studying for this final. Our professor let us take as many notes as we could fit on one side of a sheet of paper, and you should have seen my paper... it was a work of art, i do not know how i fit everything on it... smallest writing ever (I actually wanted to keep it and hang it up in my room or something, it was beautiful, but my prof made everyone hand in their cheet sheets). And the reason for studing so much? Quanbecks tests sometimes have information in them that may have been briefly mentioned in class for 3 seconds 8 weeks ago... pretty much everything is fair game. Luckily (thank the lord), Quanbeck gave us the essay questions ahead of time, which resulted in me, i think, doing pretty well on his final. This was definitely the most frustrating final I had however.
Spanish: hmmm.. spanish. I'm not very good at it. I was expecting to get a C in this class, therefore, I studied a lot for my spanish final. Basically, we spent the last three days in class watching a movie (in spanish with subtitles) and then we had to have a 10 minute conversation with our teacher in spanish. I was afraid. I studied all week and then crammed for a few hours the night before, and then i woke up at 7:45 the next morning to eat breakfast and study until 10. After I had my convo with prof. Fischer, she told me that she could tell that I practiced and that I did a pretty good job.... definitely one of the happiest moments of my entire week. I was basically flying.
Intro to Cinema: Possibly my most difficult final (they were all pretty different, it's hard to tell). I memoriezed the directors of all the movies we watched in class, and basically a whole bunch of terms. Someone asked my professor what we should study for the test.. he just responded "the glosary... all of it". Luckilly, I realized that I knew most of the terms pretty well and the test wasn't that hard. When it comes to analyzing some of the scenes, all I could do was use as much of the vocab words as I could and then hope that Cowgill was a little lenient on my answers. Despite my preperation, I flat-out did not know the answers to some questions, but overall I think i did pretty good.
Finishing my last final was one of the best feelings EVER! It felt like a ginormous bolder was lifted off of my shoulders and i was happy to think that i would not have any homework over the weekend...
Until I realized that I had to memorize some lines, figure out a riddle, and get recomendations from some family members for my honors class, Liberating Letters... oh well, i didn't necassarily expect to be completely free...
It's been a LONG time since I've worked on my blog.
A LONG time.
I guess it was somewhat intentional... I really just wanted to relax over my break after the last few stressful weeks of school. So I guess I will start where I left off.
FINALS - I guess it was what I expected. I studied A LOT. I kind of felt that some of my grades were on the line between an A and B+ so I knew that I needed to do really well.
Scholar Citizen: technically, no final for this class. We just had to write our final paper, something along the lines of 'Does Western philosophy and science grant us the knowledge required to be an effective citizen in a culturally complex world?" It was a very difficult paper, mostly because Professor Crockett expects a lot from these papers and his students. He was definitely my favorite teacher and I will miss his class.
Honors Religion: hmmm... soo much to say. I studied a lot for this final, probably more than any other final. I spent an entire day (not exaggerating) in the library mostly studying for this final. Our professor let us take as many notes as we could fit on one side of a sheet of paper, and you should have seen my paper... it was a work of art, i do not know how i fit everything on it... smallest writing ever (I actually wanted to keep it and hang it up in my room or something, it was beautiful, but my prof made everyone hand in their cheet sheets). And the reason for studing so much? Quanbecks tests sometimes have information in them that may have been briefly mentioned in class for 3 seconds 8 weeks ago... pretty much everything is fair game. Luckily (thank the lord), Quanbeck gave us the essay questions ahead of time, which resulted in me, i think, doing pretty well on his final. This was definitely the most frustrating final I had however.
Spanish: hmmm.. spanish. I'm not very good at it. I was expecting to get a C in this class, therefore, I studied a lot for my spanish final. Basically, we spent the last three days in class watching a movie (in spanish with subtitles) and then we had to have a 10 minute conversation with our teacher in spanish. I was afraid. I studied all week and then crammed for a few hours the night before, and then i woke up at 7:45 the next morning to eat breakfast and study until 10. After I had my convo with prof. Fischer, she told me that she could tell that I practiced and that I did a pretty good job.... definitely one of the happiest moments of my entire week. I was basically flying.
Intro to Cinema: Possibly my most difficult final (they were all pretty different, it's hard to tell). I memoriezed the directors of all the movies we watched in class, and basically a whole bunch of terms. Someone asked my professor what we should study for the test.. he just responded "the glosary... all of it". Luckilly, I realized that I knew most of the terms pretty well and the test wasn't that hard. When it comes to analyzing some of the scenes, all I could do was use as much of the vocab words as I could and then hope that Cowgill was a little lenient on my answers. Despite my preperation, I flat-out did not know the answers to some questions, but overall I think i did pretty good.
Finishing my last final was one of the best feelings EVER! It felt like a ginormous bolder was lifted off of my shoulders and i was happy to think that i would not have any homework over the weekend...
Until I realized that I had to memorize some lines, figure out a riddle, and get recomendations from some family members for my honors class, Liberating Letters... oh well, i didn't necassarily expect to be completely free...
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