Rachel W

Work...

It's all I have had this entire week. Two papers, a test, an essay, a project, and now to add to it, a midterm, and another essay. Actually two now that I remember. Ugh. I don't know how it works, but I think just for laughs, all the work I need to do for all of my classes seems to get assigned all in the same week. FUN! At least I handed in most of my Bermuda forms. My mom came up to sign them. She had to come up because apparently on the forms, when your parents sign them, it has to be notarized. Luckily Mary Lou Roof, the one who is in charge of study abroad for students, just happens to be one. So I have my plane ticket all set, most of the forms done, next is just waiting for the bill for the class credits to come. Thankfully, that won't be in for a while. I sent out my first resume for an internship. Hopefully I'll hear back from them. I sent it to the Charlie Rose Show. I plan on sending more, I just need time, which I don't currently have a lot of, to fix my cover letter. I am actually excited for this weekend though because my best friend from home will probarbly be comming up to visit me. He came to visit me last year, but he hasn't been up yet this year. I'm just hoping he can get the time off work. So tomorrow morning I plan on getting up extra early because I need to get the concert tickets. It should really be a really good show. This is the first concert I'm excited about since the Goo Goo Dolls. That was an amazing show! Well I am actually at my job right now and now I have work to do. Later. Keep Li/oving.

It's Snowing!!!

It is snowing a lot! I took a nap when it just started and I woke up and their is so much snow on the ground there is one of those guys on that mini tractor shoveling away the snow. So last weekend I went home. I had a lot to do and I felt like seeing my mom and surprising her with a visit. Well she was definitley surprised. She liked the visit a lot, she wasn't expecting me at all. I spent the whole weekend pretty much doing work. This weekend will probarbly turn out the same way. I have two papers, a test and an article to do, plus work, plus my homework for my 7 classes, plus cla, plus rugby is starting, so I will be stretched very thin for a while. This weekend is definitley a working weekend, at least one day needs to be. So the assistant director of the bands, Chuck Bennedum is leaving. It's really sad because he' s a really cool guy who makes band bareable. The band is throwing a goodbye party, and I need to bake chocolate chip cookies for the party. I also had my first meeting for my study abroad trip to Bermuda. I am going in May, the 23-29, and I am so excited for it. I had a meeting with the professor in charge Dr. Block, and Mary Lou Roof, she is in charge of the whole study abroad department. They pretty much explained everything that we would be doing, and I got to meet two other guys that are going on the trip. There are SO MANY forms I need to fill out in order to go. I already bought my plane ticket, and once I hand in my $200 monday its official that I am going!!! I have never been anywhere like Bermuda before, the closest I have ever been would be Key West this past Christmas break... That was fun too... highly recommend it for a trip...  Today I went to the bookstore and I remembered I had this old giftcard and I got myself an much needed new sweatshirt on clearance for $20, which as many of you know is really cheap for a SHU sweatshirt. There are still a few left if your interested. I got a red one but they also have them in gray, and they have hoods and a little SHU logo on the left side. So my dorm room itself happens to be like 35 degrees colder than the rest of the suite. It is pretty ridiculous. In the beginning of the year we noticed there was something wrong with the windows, and they wrote it down so we wouldn't get charged for them, but now that its winter, the problem is causing our room to turn into an igloo. We called maintanence so hopefully they will come soon. So friday I am getting excited for because me and my best friend are going to century 21 to go and find someone to help us find a house for next year!! I am really excited to get a house with my best friends. It means I also need to get a car this summer too!!! I really need to get an internship, and a job to help pay for one though.. Well now I am going to fix my resume, and my cover letter. Bbyes. Keep Li/oving. P.S. Pray for a snow day!

Procrastinating...

Ha. That is exactly what I am doing right now. I am procrastinating my long read for my media studies class. But at least I am putting my procrastination to good use. I am fixing my horrendus resume thanks to Career Development (WHEN YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR RESUME GO THERE!!!). They were such a huge help. They gave me a format for me to fill out so I could build my resume and then I came back after I filled it out and they helped me polish it all up so I can start sending them. Now I just need to work on a cover letter. It takes so much work just to get an internship. So I guess a big issue today is the whole political election that is just getting bigger and bigger. I didn't go to the McCain rally on sunday. I am not big on politics but I know enough to know McCain isn't for me. Though I still do not know who I am going to vote for, I'll probarbly end up knowing when it's down to the finals. One thing that I do think is really important now that I am old enough, is going out there and voting on election day. Now I know a lot of poitcal science majors know that it isn't about the popular votes, but the electoral. Still, it doesn't matter if the popular votes are less important, the important thing is that as an American citizen we go out and support the democratic action of voting. I just think that its more than who you want in office, but the fact that we are able to choose, and and declare our choice is just as important. Anyways, in other hot topics, especially in this campus, I have been coming across on the topic of housing. Personally, I am planning to get a house next year and live with a few of my friends off campus. We just need to figure out in what area do we want to live in and start going out there and looking. We are going to try and find someone to help us search, like a real estate agent or a broker or someone like that... Okay so the big talk from this weekend wasn't McCain, but of course the Superbowl. I was on the fence. I am a Patriots fan, but being from Queens, I had to also cheer for the Giants. They played an amazing game. That was a pretty exciting game to watch. This was the first Superbowl that I really celebrated. My roomate and me went to her friends house where we cooked all the Superbowl foods, wings, chili, heroes, chips, cupcakes, piglets in a blanket (i helped with that one :P ), I definitley had a good time, met some awesome people and had a great time. I definitley want to go all out from now on, it seems like the only great way to watch the Superbowl. Ok enough procrastinating, time to read. Keep li/oving.