Last Week of Classes!!!!

This is the last week of classes for the fall of Junior year and let me tell you it is one of the best parts of the year. Boston is alive with Holiday spirit for people of all ages! My fellow Resident Assistant in Miller Hall, Ki, has one of his floors decorated to the point that "Santa himself would be jealous." I will be honest I have become overly distracted with the holidays and may or may not be neglecting my studies in exchange for some extra Holiday celebration. Thursday for example, Boston will be closing the historic Charles Street between Beacon and Cambridge Streets to have a food festival and all kinds of other fun stuff.
The extra events this week aren't limited to holidays. There is a stress relief session in the Donahue Building today from 1-230 and another one in Miller Hall tomorrow from 630-8. Today many different school administrators, including President Sargent, will be in the C. Walsh Theater to discuss the press on Suffolk as of late. Thursday there will be a Celebration of Senegal Conclusion Ceremony in the C. Walsh Theater. Thursday night is the Winter Ball in the State Street Building for everyone to have a last bit of fun before cramming for finals starts Friday morning. It's going to be a good time.

Winter Fun

As the semester comes to an end and we all start looking forward to vacation more than we look towards preparation for finals, Suffolk and Boston, come anywhere but short with providing many needed distractions. Last night was the Coply Square Tree lighting, tonight is the Boston Common Holiday Tree lighting. If last night is any sign of the turnout that tonight will bring, it's going to be one big party. Suffolk is also running a number of events to celebrate the holidays including the up coming Holiday Concert and some illuminations of our own. I think my finals can wait until the night before, there is just so much fun to be had and I would not want to miss it for the world.

Post Thanksgiving Fun

So as the semester comes to a close we are all getting very busy. I have a few finals and some other school related things to take care of but I am SO excited about winter in Boston. This is my favorite time of year, I love the Christmas festivities with my family and friends. On Thursday the Boston Common "Holiday" Tree Lighting will happen. I will be working it am super excited to see everyone in great moods. I got a job working on the Boston Common Frog Pond Skating rink 3 years ago and have worked every season since and love to see all the people skating around just enjoying this time of the year as much as I do.

Week of 10/12

This holiday weekend gave me a chance to do anything but sit around and enjoy the 3 days off from work. I was recently hired as the Resident Assistant on the 6th Floor of Miller Hall and therefore had to spend my time taking down my old room and moving to the new one. If that was all I had to do I would have been happy. I am a procrastinator which has left me with an entire book to read by next Monday on the constitutional convention, let me stop and contain my excitement....not so much. On top this I have to get ready for Suffolk's annual fall debate tournament to be held on September 24. The topic for the debate "The United States Federal Government should substantially reform domestic transportation infrastructure." Yes that's right super exciting stuff. On a more happy note I will be doing a new set of floor decorations this week with a "Movies Based in Boston" theme.

SGA

So this past weekend I spent 3 days in Freedom New Hampshire. I went up on Friday with members of the Student Government Association, We did some prelim work on procedure and the constitution before the other groups from campus came up on Saturday. While it did rain out the day on Saturday the weekend was not a total loss. I think that all the members of the SGA Eboard did a good job facilitating and leading the group. Now its back to the grind of the normal week. I will leave again on Friday for West Chester Penn. for the first Debate Team trip of the year. It should be a good time.

The Matt Moretti Show 9/26

So for all of you that have managed to find my blog, seeing as I haven't used it since February, I have great news for my first post in months. This weekend the Suffolk University Undergraduate Admissions Office will be hosting the Matt Moretti Show. That's right, fellow Ambassador Matt will be hosting the student to student information session on Saturday September 26 at 11:00am in the C. Walsh Theater. This will be a must see event for any perspective student. Speeches will start at 11:00, followed by some Q&A, and finish with the campus tour. If you are interested please call the Admissions Office and get on the guest list, it's filling fast.

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.