Busy. Busy, Busy

The Boston winter has not given up its cold push by any means. With wind chills as low as 6 degrees last week the cold seems to be here to stay. The good new, at least no one wants to be outside so they can stay in and study. Yeah like that’s going to happen. The campus has been as busy as always. Last weekend the C Walsh Theater hosted reefer madness and attracted huge crowds for the amazing performance. The Student Government Elections are coming up so of course all the candidates are campaigning in every way possible from free candy to Facebook. Last Friday the Undergraduate Admissions Office hosted a reception for the some of the Accepted Students. The Office of Retention Services held its monthly Suffolk Spirit Night last Tuesday for Men’s basketball. There is never a moment that there is nothing to do here, trust me.

The Inauguration

There are times in life when we decide it would be a good idea to spend nearly 36 hours outside in Washington D.C. in January. Minus the fact that some majority of the 1.5million people most likely got sick it was an amazing experience. I along with 2 other Suffolk Students were fortunate enough to get tickets to the inauguration. So when the party started early Sunday morning we got on the band wagon and enjoyed the day. Making one of the few smart decisions we did we slept Sunday night into Monday. At 8am Monday morning we left our apartment in what would become an epic journey to the center of one of the biggest parties in the nations history. We walked around DC for the better part of the day and finally go to our security gate at about 1am Tuesday morning with an estimated 30,000 other people. We waited until 6am when they opened the gates and let a crowd of nearly 125,000 people storm the Washington Mall. So by 7am we were standing 5 rows back from the reflecting pool by Congress waiting the 4 hours for the ceremony to start. By the time it did there were about 1,500,000 people standing around, but mostly behind, us waiting and cheering. When the moment came for Obama to come to center stage the sheer volume of the crowd could have tossed you off your feet. The world watched as we watched a part of history that is not soon to be forgot. The ride back to Bethesda MD took hours more, but it was most surely time well spent in my opinion.

Welcome Back

So catching up on a 3 week late start to the semestar hasn't been as bad as I thought it would be. Fortunately, I had planned to miss the first two weeks for a trip to the Washington Center in Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration. The last week was an attempt at recovering from standing in the cold of DC for more than 20 hours waiting to watch the historic event. As always it was nice to come back to snowy Boston to lay back and call it a week. Now its time to get back to the massive amount of work that comes along with college. This weekend is the first Speech and Debate tournament of the spring semestar held at Suffolk and co-hosted by the University of Florida. I never understood why that tournament is always in Boston and not Florida in the middle of February, but oh well.

The Final Weeks

So let’s talk about the end of the semester. Not only do classes start winding down and prep for the final exams begin but everything in regards to next semester’s schedule start piling up on the list of things to do. This week the undergraduate admissions office will be holding an open house to allow some 1200 students a chance to look over our campus, facilities, staff, and a general life as a Suffolk University student. Then next week will be the real “final” academic week of the semester. I say this because it will be the last full week of classes before the Final exam week starts, and winter break gets under way. So in the long and short, here comes the fun.

A busy week

Well as if my life were not busy enough next week is going to be insane. Tomorrow, Saturday October 25, Suffolk will host our home speech and debate tournament of the fall. Monday night provides a second to last chance for fellow Suffolk University Republicans to get out to the phone bank for John McCain to try getting some last undecided voters in for the election. Tuesday has the Great Debate between the College Democrats and Republicans, who I will represent. The last Program Council Movie night will also be on Tuesday. Wednesday holds 3 different events for the students to choose from. First, the NRA president will be visiting Suffolk University for a discussion on the 2nd amendment. Second, the annual Rainbow alliance drag show. Third, Program councils trip to spooky world. Thursday is the sophomore boat cruise. Friday I will be leaving for Saint Anselm College for a Debate tournament there. I will return late next Saturday for more than desire sleep. All this after a week of absurdly difficult week of Midterms. WOO HOO

This week has been full of business trying to make up for the Columbus Day holiday that took away our Monday, well worth it I might add. On Wednesday we had the double header soccer match first the girls then the boys over in Somerville. Retention services brought free pizza and soda and cosponsored a shuttle bus to the field to have more people come to watch the game. Tomorrow we have the student to student information session which should be fun. Mid terms are coming for almost all of my classes next week so this weekend unfortunately will be mostly dedicated to studies, awesome.