An Amazing Weekend Away!

I have some advice that doesn't so much have to do with being a student at Mercyhurst, but being a college student in general.  My advice for you after this weekend is that if you have a chance to go to a formal for some type of organization, take it!  My boyfriend is in a fraternity at his school and his formal was in Cincinnati right on the Ohio River...and it was SO much fun!



My guy and I at his formals!



Of course, Mercyhurst doesn't have greek life so you can't really get that here but there is a military ball in the spring for the ROTC members!  Plus, the school has a Fall Ball and Spring Charity Ball.  It is really fun to dress up and have a night out!  Mine was especially fun because it was somewhere new and fun that I hadn't really experienced before.  It was surely a weekend to remember!

Right now, campus is looking forward to the Easter weekend.  A definite benefit of being a Catholic school is that we always get a 4-day weekend for Easter off, while a lot of other school don't.  It will be nice to go home and celebrate the holiday, and hope that the rain will hold out for a while so we can have an outdoor Easter Egg Hunt!

Tomorrow is the Leadership Certification Program's end of year induction ceremony!  I will officially be handing over my presidency to the newly elected president for next year!  I can't believe how fast it went!  I also love this event because it is always catered with REALLYYYYY yummy mini deserts and finger foods...can never go wrong with those! 

Well, time to sit down and start pounding out a final paper for one of my history courses!  Ready, set, focus!

It's beginning to look a lot like (Antarctica?)

Well, as many of you may know, Erie has officially kicked off the lovely (or not so lovely) snow!  It really quite beautiful, unless of course you have to walk or drive through it!  But, of course, as all Mercyhurst students know, we must get used to it because there is only more to come!

On Monday was the first home men's and women's basketball games and they were pretty awesome.  I only cheered for the men's game, but the women won and the men put on an nail-biter by keeping it tied throughout most of the game!  We unfortunately lost at the very end by only 3 points.  For the first game it was a pretty good turnout, and I didn't mess up too badly at my first college cheerleading experience!

Yesterday, there was a speaker for the leadership society I belong to on campus and it really was quite interesting.  Tom Krieglstein talked to us over a broadcast about creating a digital social identity.  Of course, just about everyone I know has a Facebook, but I realized how useful and cool having this blog really is!  It gives me a chance to not only help prospective students get a chance to learn what being a student here is really all about, but it also helps me create a good reputation for future employers that may search my name n the internet!  That being said, I must now apologize to all you readers out there...because I now have a hidden agenda for writing this blog: getting a JOB! :P

Today has been a really good day, too (regardless of my 4 straight hours of class!).  My friends and I ate lunch in Egan cafeteria, which we rarely do, and were pleasantly surprised by the delicious food!  It was an Italian theme and they has lasagna, pepperoni bread, pasta, and wonderful cannol's and tiramisu!  A meal like that makes me want to eat lunch on campus much more often!  Luckily I will be just as lucky for dinner tonight!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!