Wow. Looking forward to a calm and relaxing weekend is one of the most happy things I can think of. Filled with sleeping in, Kingdom Hearts, relaxing with fellow Phi Psis and generally just unwinding.
That's not to say that this past week hasn't been filled with some interesting occasions. Life here in the Admissions Office is picking up and in the past week we've averaged about 3 tours a day. I've met a number of really interesting prospectives interested in everything from Business to Art to Theater to Psychology to Arabic. They all were really awesome and fun, interested in everything under the sun. There were even a few fellow roleplaying folk (Vampire, D&D and Changling ROCK!!!)
So, yeah. Julia mentioned the wonderful bagels provided wonderously by Stacy and I second as witness of Brandi's creamy revelations. You learn, do and eat something new everyday, or so it seems. Miraculously there seem to be a couple left of which I may need to partake before the day is through.
I'm thinking I may see 28 Weeks Later this weekend. Anybody have any thoughts on the movie? I saw the original 28 Days Later a couple weeks ago and found most of it to be rather enjoyable (though the ending through me off a little bit...) We shall see.
Also, if anyone likes a good, classic read, I'd suggest the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's a fictional layout of her philosopy of Objectivism and the importance of egotism. It's been quite a controversial topic since its first publication but definitely worth a look.
Anyway, I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!
Bis Spater!
Travis...
Friday, June 15, 2007
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
This morning, our beloved Stacy Clay brought in a bag of bagels from Bagels & More (my favorite downtown Belwah haunt). To supplement the treat she purchased some cream cheese, a natural choice for anyone who has ever eaten a bagel.
So, I was sitting here at the front desk, answering your parents' questions, and debating what I'll make for lunch in a couple hours, when Brandi came over all in a fuss, bagel in hand.
"Do you like cream cheese?" asked the shaking Beals.
"Yes, why?" I asked.
"Oh, I've just never had it before," said Brandi.
Twenty-year-old Brandi then had her first cream cheese experience here in the front hall of Middle College. She glowed brighter as the schmeared bagel quickly disappeared.
Since taking her first bagel-and-cream-cheese sampling, Brandi has declared her undying love for the condiment. She'll probably never have a plain bagel again-- and who can blame her?
If you've never had cream cheese, we here at Beloit College Admissions highly recommend it. The next frontier for Brandi: coffee!
- Julia
So, I was sitting here at the front desk, answering your parents' questions, and debating what I'll make for lunch in a couple hours, when Brandi came over all in a fuss, bagel in hand.
"Do you like cream cheese?" asked the shaking Beals.
"Yes, why?" I asked.
"Oh, I've just never had it before," said Brandi.
Twenty-year-old Brandi then had her first cream cheese experience here in the front hall of Middle College. She glowed brighter as the schmeared bagel quickly disappeared.
Since taking her first bagel-and-cream-cheese sampling, Brandi has declared her undying love for the condiment. She'll probably never have a plain bagel again-- and who can blame her?
If you've never had cream cheese, we here at Beloit College Admissions highly recommend it. The next frontier for Brandi: coffee!
- Julia
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Getting Things Ready, Volleyball and Softball, and Creativeness
Ok. So I am pro-active. I have an idea. I go and get it done. I call people back as soon as I can. Etc. Well I do a few things on campus during the year, and the summer is the only time I can catch my breath and find the time to put together another great year.
First things first with that. Michelle and I scheduled events to do in the fall with the volunteers we manage. We changed email systems and have been updating contacts and setting up template emails. We made a list of summer projects and have been making excellent progress on them. I will put up pictures of the new office as soon as I get my computer back. Anyways, the second thing I have to organize is my things for Kappa Delta. I am the leadership chair, on the standards board, and as SET leader. Basically, I have to plan things for the group to do, or take part in on campus. I also have to review the rules of KD. I have to do the same type of thing for BAAC, which is the Beloit Athletic Advisory Committee. I made us a club and now I have to make sure we can make it through our temporary status. I have to plan a big event, and soon. I also want to update our frisbee golf course on campus so that all incoming first years will know what the course is. I need to take a responsible beverage course and possibly get my bartending license. I also want to get my motorcyclist license and get an apartment. Lots of little things to do, and the biggest of them all would be me cleaning my room. Ouch!
So the past couple of weeks we have been looking for volleyball and softball coaches, and I'm excited about the process and the new coaches. We already hired the new volleyball coach, but I haven't met her yet, and they are doing interviews for the new softball coach yesterday and today. I'm excited about which one will be best and meeting both new coaches. Summer workouts suck, btw.
Now, for the creativeness word I threw in the title there. Well, I finished painting the office and just hung bulletin boards yesterday. On each of them is the name of the coordinator whose board it is. I put my name up and the name of the new coordinator. I also am apparently creative in the gift I am giving my dad for fathers day. I'm excited about working on that soon.
Gosh! Now I can't stop thinking about cleaning my room. I need to have a better system or something. I need to buy things. I need money... Oh! We get paid on Friday! Awesome! Because I think I'll be heading to Chicago this weekend.
Anyways, sorry about the babble.
*Brandi
First things first with that. Michelle and I scheduled events to do in the fall with the volunteers we manage. We changed email systems and have been updating contacts and setting up template emails. We made a list of summer projects and have been making excellent progress on them. I will put up pictures of the new office as soon as I get my computer back. Anyways, the second thing I have to organize is my things for Kappa Delta. I am the leadership chair, on the standards board, and as SET leader. Basically, I have to plan things for the group to do, or take part in on campus. I also have to review the rules of KD. I have to do the same type of thing for BAAC, which is the Beloit Athletic Advisory Committee. I made us a club and now I have to make sure we can make it through our temporary status. I have to plan a big event, and soon. I also want to update our frisbee golf course on campus so that all incoming first years will know what the course is. I need to take a responsible beverage course and possibly get my bartending license. I also want to get my motorcyclist license and get an apartment. Lots of little things to do, and the biggest of them all would be me cleaning my room. Ouch!
So the past couple of weeks we have been looking for volleyball and softball coaches, and I'm excited about the process and the new coaches. We already hired the new volleyball coach, but I haven't met her yet, and they are doing interviews for the new softball coach yesterday and today. I'm excited about which one will be best and meeting both new coaches. Summer workouts suck, btw.
Now, for the creativeness word I threw in the title there. Well, I finished painting the office and just hung bulletin boards yesterday. On each of them is the name of the coordinator whose board it is. I put my name up and the name of the new coordinator. I also am apparently creative in the gift I am giving my dad for fathers day. I'm excited about working on that soon.
Gosh! Now I can't stop thinking about cleaning my room. I need to have a better system or something. I need to buy things. I need money... Oh! We get paid on Friday! Awesome! Because I think I'll be heading to Chicago this weekend.
Anyways, sorry about the babble.
*Brandi
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Country Mouse, City Mouse, Beloit Mouse
Last weekend, Michelle and I decided to take advantage of Union Pacific's $5 weekend passes and head into the windy city for Blues Fest. The festival is free free free and fills five or six stages throughout Grant Park. Speaking of easy on the wallet, I spent two great days in Chicago (we came back to Beloit to sleep in our own beds dans la maison francaise) for under $20. Ah, the beauty of a picnic lunch!
Coming from Montpelier, a "city" of 8,000 Vermonsters, Beloit's population of 35,000 is big by my standards. Still, life on campus is pretty quiet when you hold it up next to hubs like Chicago and Madison. Needless to say, campus during the summer is even quieter! I suppose our motivation for the trip was to see some people. Lots of people. As many people as we could find with our country mouse eyes. After a month on a campus without my social fix from Student Activities, visiting speakers, and my near, dear friends, I found campus too quiet for my taste. So, Michelle and I went to Chicago to be part of the crowd.
After a quick stop at the Farmers Market to pick up lunch supplies, we drove down to the train station in Harvard, Illinois to the peaceful sound of tires on Colley Road:
After two hours on the train and thirty minutes of walking the streets to the whiffs blues drifting up from the waterfront, we found ourselves smack in the middle of the hubbub:
The best thing about living in the Midwest (next to the fried cheese curds) is the ease of public transportation. It gives you cheap access to Milwaukee and Madison and the big city itself. There are few things as satisfying as an afternoon under the trees in Grant Park with a couple friends, a loaf of zucchini bread from the Beloit Farmers Market, and live blues! We found a couple great spots to sit throughout the day. Here is the view from where we sat behind the SoCo stand:
While relaxing in the shade was a wonderful break, things around here are only speeding up. I'm headed back into Chicago to visit a couple friends next weekend and then it's off to Vermont to visit my family and before long it's the fourth of July. The warm season for Midwestern adventuring has just begun...
- Julia
Coming from Montpelier, a "city" of 8,000 Vermonsters, Beloit's population of 35,000 is big by my standards. Still, life on campus is pretty quiet when you hold it up next to hubs like Chicago and Madison. Needless to say, campus during the summer is even quieter! I suppose our motivation for the trip was to see some people. Lots of people. As many people as we could find with our country mouse eyes. After a month on a campus without my social fix from Student Activities, visiting speakers, and my near, dear friends, I found campus too quiet for my taste. So, Michelle and I went to Chicago to be part of the crowd.
After a quick stop at the Farmers Market to pick up lunch supplies, we drove down to the train station in Harvard, Illinois to the peaceful sound of tires on Colley Road:
After two hours on the train and thirty minutes of walking the streets to the whiffs blues drifting up from the waterfront, we found ourselves smack in the middle of the hubbub:
The best thing about living in the Midwest (next to the fried cheese curds) is the ease of public transportation. It gives you cheap access to Milwaukee and Madison and the big city itself. There are few things as satisfying as an afternoon under the trees in Grant Park with a couple friends, a loaf of zucchini bread from the Beloit Farmers Market, and live blues! We found a couple great spots to sit throughout the day. Here is the view from where we sat behind the SoCo stand:
While relaxing in the shade was a wonderful break, things around here are only speeding up. I'm headed back into Chicago to visit a couple friends next weekend and then it's off to Vermont to visit my family and before long it's the fourth of July. The warm season for Midwestern adventuring has just begun...
- Julia
Summertime...and the livin' is easy...ON THE WALLET!
I discovered yet another reason to be excited about being in Beloit in the summer: Snappers games! For those of you who may have ever doubted about how much fun a minor league baseball game might really be, prepared to be amazed. For one thing, the price is pretty much unbeatable: on Tuesdays (College Night) it's a dollar admission with a student ID, and a dollar for EVERYTHING after that...as in, dollar beers (with ID of course), dollar hotdogs, dollar candy bars, dollar etc. GENIUS. I had a serious flashback to the high school days of night baseball games, sitting on those hard metal bleachers and shoving handfuls of David sunflower seeds into my cheek like a hamster. A bunch of Beloit students ended up going, so we sat in the nosebleed section (not really nosebleed, since Telfer Park is pretty cozy) and hung out and chatted and made a valiant effort to actually concentrate on the game! Since I've been getting a lot of questions about town/college relationships, going to these games seems like a great way to get off campus and spend some time among Beloit residents.
In other news, I'm taking Friday afternoon off and jaunting around Iowa and Wisconsin for Friday and Saturday! I have to go home to replace a lost license (lost physically, not like taken away by the cops) and then Jim and I are spending Saturday in Madison with my parents (yeah, I know, sickening) bumming around and sitting on the Monona Terrace and eating ice cream! Should be a fun, quick trip!
~ LDM
In other news, I'm taking Friday afternoon off and jaunting around Iowa and Wisconsin for Friday and Saturday! I have to go home to replace a lost license (lost physically, not like taken away by the cops) and then Jim and I are spending Saturday in Madison with my parents (yeah, I know, sickening) bumming around and sitting on the Monona Terrace and eating ice cream! Should be a fun, quick trip!
~ LDM
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
So, I'm sitting in the Admissions "Lounge" area, and I am amazed at the comfort of the couches. I mean, if you were to pick a school based solely on how comfortable your bum was when you visited, this would have to be the one. They're all really nice looking too, in a green, gold and red color scheme that in no way resembles christmastime. I'm impressed.
In other news, our summer language students came to campus on Saturday. Having the CLS (Center for Language Studies) students makes the campus seem more active and alive... before there weren't enough students left to form a soccer team (that may be a slight exaggeration). Regardless, it's nice to see new, intelligent faces on campus.
On that note, I'm really excited for the new freshman class! In part, this excitement comes from the fact that when they arrive, I won't be a freshman anymore. The summer is a weird sort of middle area... I've completed my freshman year but haven't started sophomore year, I don't know what to call myself. From now on, when visitors ask, I'll just tell them I'm stuck.
Alright, I've posted. I feel accomplished.
~Kristen
In other news, our summer language students came to campus on Saturday. Having the CLS (Center for Language Studies) students makes the campus seem more active and alive... before there weren't enough students left to form a soccer team (that may be a slight exaggeration). Regardless, it's nice to see new, intelligent faces on campus.
On that note, I'm really excited for the new freshman class! In part, this excitement comes from the fact that when they arrive, I won't be a freshman anymore. The summer is a weird sort of middle area... I've completed my freshman year but haven't started sophomore year, I don't know what to call myself. From now on, when visitors ask, I'll just tell them I'm stuck.
Alright, I've posted. I feel accomplished.
~Kristen
Do you know what's wonderful?
...a calm, bright day sitting in the lounge of the French house with a book exploring both the adventures and misadventures of Robert Langdon after three days of overcast skies and thunderheads...
A really good weekend...
A really good weekend...
Pridefest and Goggles
So I went to Pridefest in Milwaukee this weekend. It was a blast. I have never seen so many drag queens in my life. We got there around 5 and just shopped and walked around. As it got later the dance tent became the hip place to be. My friends had a great time and I was so happy for them. They were all in couples or looking to be in one, while my boyfriend was in Chicago. My best friend's girlfriend asked my best friend to marry her since there was a church group there that was performing ceremonys on Sunday. I was planning on driving back on Sunday for it, but they ended up not going through with it, because one of their parents didn't really approve of them doing it so early. I agree, but it really isn't my place to say anything.
There were tents all around selling rainbow colored items such as boas, hats, flags, etc. At one tent they were selling those knock-off designer sunglasses, and the deal was buy one, get two free. So my friend bought one and me and another friend got the free pairs. Guess what I chose... Ok, I'll tell you. I got goggles. Yes. Goggles. They're awesome and I promised my best friend that I will wear them during my softball games next year.
Ooo... I also got a new phone this weekend, finally. That is pretty much what my weekend consisted of. Cool, huh?
*Brandi
There were tents all around selling rainbow colored items such as boas, hats, flags, etc. At one tent they were selling those knock-off designer sunglasses, and the deal was buy one, get two free. So my friend bought one and me and another friend got the free pairs. Guess what I chose... Ok, I'll tell you. I got goggles. Yes. Goggles. They're awesome and I promised my best friend that I will wear them during my softball games next year.
Ooo... I also got a new phone this weekend, finally. That is pretty much what my weekend consisted of. Cool, huh?
*Brandi
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