February 22, 2009
Spring Break is only two weeks away and the only thing separating me from it is five mid-terms. Yep, that’s not going to be fun. I have one tomorrow and four during the last three days before break. However, that’s about all that I have to do. Most of my other homework is already done.
I received great news this week. I was accepted to my study abroad program!!! So, I will spend one month in Madrid this summer at Saint Louis University. After that one month, I will continue traveling throughout Europe on my own for roughly forty days. It’s required lots of work between filling out confirmation forms, finishing my passport application, and getting in deposits, but I’m really excited for this opportunity.
The rest of the week has been busy, but tolerable. The group going on the Alternative Spring Break met for the first time. It was helpful to actually be able to put a face to an application. I also had ten hours of meetings between my other organizations and I served on an Admissions Panel for prospective sophomores and juniors. Through it all, I made sure to save some time for fun.
My friend from Louisiana received a surprise overnight package from home. Her mom had sent her a King Cake to celebrate Mardi Gras. I had never heard of King Cake before, but it’s apparently a famous dessert from New Orleans. She needed some help to finish it all, which is where I came in. It was very tasty.
King Cake
Most of my other fun events this week revolved around movies. “Quantum of Solace” was playing on-campus at the Pier this week, so I went on Thursday. I was very disappointed with it. Friday night was spent hanging out in a friend’s room and watching “Mighty Ducks 2″, which I hadn’t seen in forever. Finally, the UR students who go to my church were invited to go out for dinner at Coppola’s Deli and then to the Byrd Theater, which is a magnificent, restored theater in downtown Richmond. Every Saturday, they have an organist play a Wurlitzer Organ before the movie begins, which is pretty cool. The movie playing was “Twilight” and it was quite sub-par. One of my friends basically laughed his way through the entire movie because it was so corny. It was still fun to hangout with friends, though.
Lastly, the University of Richmond Law School invited me to attend a Law School Preview Day for undergraduates. I’ve always entertained law school as a possibility, so I attended. It was worthwhile to meet some of the professors and students as well as to sit in on a mock class on intellectual property rights. UR has a cool program that allows undergraduates who get a certain SAT score as well as who maintain a certain GPA here at UR to be automatically admitted to the University of Richmond Law School upon graduation, without taking the LSATs. That’s pretty cool. Though law school interests me, I still have no idea what path I will eventually take, which is starting to scare me because time is flying by so fast. That’s all for this week. Back to studying for tomorrow’s midterm.
Quote of the Week: “Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” -General George Patton
Thought to Ponder: Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
YouTube Video of the Week:
Questionable authenticity, but well-made video
with cool basketball trick shots
