Howdy! Thanksgiving seems to be right around the corner and I am so ready for it. How about you? For me, this week didn’t have too many major projects, but that was perfectly fine with me. I was able to hang out with my friends and attend a performance by our hip-hop dance group on Friday night, the Multicultural Student Union’s Quiz Bowl on Saturday night, as well as “The Dark Knight” at the Pier on Sunday night. I also made it to the football game and men’s basketball game this weekend. We won both quite handily. The football team beat last year’s National Championship runner-ups 31-14 and limited them to 54 total yards of offense, a new school record.
Our hip-hop dance crew performing on Friday night
The football game vs. Delaware
I was also officially inducted into the Jepson School of Leadership Studies this past week at a ceremony called Prelude. Even though I feel confident about Leadership Studies and my other concentrations, I still went to an event sponsored by my residence hall that focused on how to discover your career. It was fun to see how a lot of famous people have college majors completely different than their careers such as Tiger Woods in Economics and Brad Pitt in Journalism. After the event, I thought it would still be a good idea to stop by our Career Development Center just to make sure I am on the right path. It turns out that I am just fine for a sophomore. However, the one thing I should start doing now is creating a resume. The last thing that I will mention about academics is that I finally have the film from my Rhetoric speeches. As promised, here is one of the speeches that I spent such a long time on. This speech is an epideictic speech that extols a certain virtue:
My epideictic speech
It’s good that I had a bit more free time this week, because I started something new this week. I joined InterVarsity’s C-Team. C-Team is InterVarsity’s core leadership which meets once a week and includes a representative from each of the separate branches. Since the leader of my department, Community Team, is going abroad in the spring, I will take her place. To ease the transition, I started attending meetings this week. It’s one more thing on my plate, but I saw it coming and am excited for it.
There was an event this week, through InterVarsity, that has been a lot of fun for me. It was a Medallion Hunt and I was in charge of it. The way it works is that I hide an object on campus and then release a clue to its location, in the form of a riddle, each day until it is finally found. The clues get more and more specific every day until it has become obvious. Since I couldn’t find a medallion, I had to use a glass starfish instead. There has been a fantastic response thus far and it has created a lot of excitement among my friends, which was very encouraging to see. I will release Clue #6 next and I fully expect someone to find it today. Here are two of the clues that I created and released. The answers are at the very bottom of this post:
Clue #3:
Spark, ignite; Insubstantial, faint; Well-illuminated, sunny:
Affix, display; Lookout, position; Mail, send:
Clue #5:
Spy___, Col___, Tail___, Trooper___, Water___
The “medallion” that is being sought
I would like to finish this post by reminding all of the prospective students that I am glad to answer any questions that you may have about the University of Richmond. I participated in an Admissions Chat on Tuesday and hope that it was helpful for whomever participated. There is a “Contact Me” link on the right-hand side of this web page. I will try to respond to your questions as soon as possible.
My friend participating in the Admissions Chat on Tuesday
Quote of the Week: “The nice pare about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” -George Will
Thought to Ponder: Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Shout Outs: Any prospective students who have recently participated in an Admissions chat
YouTube Video of the Week:
Clue #3 Solution: Lightpost
Clue #5 Solution: Gate
Congratulations on being inducted into the Jepson Leadership family!