I know what you're thinking: "what is this strange name in my inbox? I'd forgotten she existed!" I know, I've been sparse, but life's been busy with never-ending homework and meetings and class and that thing called sleep. I'm currently traveling to a programming competition and symposium at the University of North Dakota. I've been coding for hours and every time I look out the window I see grassy nothingness. I apologize in advance if I substitute any real words with C++ commands...
Paraphrasing where I've been the last two months, I feel like a majority of the time would have been spent in front of a computer screen doing homework of some sort. Aren't things supposed to get easier your senior year? I didn't go anywhere cool for spring break. Well, I take that back, I stayed in Wisconsin which teetered between "cool" and "cold" that week. I spent half of it in East Troy and the other half in Danny's hometown. We saw a bunch of people, which was nice, but I don't have any stellar stories.
The weekend after Spring Break was my sorority's formal. It was in Green Lake, just about the perfect distance from Ripon: long enough so you feel like you're actually getting out of town, but short enough so you don't get too antsy sitting on a big, yellow school bus. Overall it was a good time. Can't you tell by how happy we look? : )
The very next weekend was Danny's fraternity's formal, also in Green Lake (different establishment, though). It was great for all the same reasons, and the Golf Club where they had it was just remodeled and looking fabulous. Unlucky for us it rained all day, so the ground was composed of mush and puddles, and only a miracle could preserve the hairdo we spent all afternoon creating. Alright, that's a fib: Venessa has a friend who just graduated from beauty school who offered to do our hair for both formals for donations. She was a lifesaver. At least we still looked composed when our handsome dates arrived to pick us up:
That same weekend on Friday I had in interview with Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. I had heard of the open internship position from an '06 Ripon alum, and heard nothing but good things. What harm could an interview do to find out if I'd like it too? None, apparently, as I learned by Monday when I got a call from their HR department. I'll definitely have to adjust to the early mornings, but the position sounds amazing otherwise, and there's the possibility that a permanent position could be offered at the end of the internship. Stay tuned for more on that this summer.
Easter weekend was short as usual since Ripon gives us from whenever we're done with classes on Friday until whenever our first class is on Monday for an Easter break. Danny and I went to the house up north to meet my parents and - we thought - my brother. Unfortunately there was so much snow in the UP where he goes to school that he decided it was too risky to try to make the trip for the weekend. The four of us still got to relax together a bit, though. Danny and I basically did homework the whole time just like every other weekend.
This past Tuesday our sorority had it's Blind Bash, an event that's usually before formal as a "test run" for potential formal dates. This year the days we could go for $1 admission were all after our formal date. Nevertheless, it was still a great time. Our group was even asked to have three people participate in a go-kart race between the 5th and 6th innings. You know I jumped at the chance to drive a go-kart through a baseball field in the middle of a game. Here's a photo of the action; I'm the yellow kart. Note my competition significantly trailing...
The Official Senioritis Countdown To Graduation is at 24 days. Unfortunately the countdown to date-all-homework-is-due is less than that, which means it's time for me to get back to work. : (
<3 Rebecca~
P.S. As we were (are) driving to North Dakota, one of our gas stops was at a Kwik Trip that happened to have wireless internet. I was searching for something using Blingo and I won 2 free movie tickets. No lie! I was beginning to become skeptical myself, but you really can win things just by using Blingo as your search engine. It searches through Google, so you get all the same results, but you could win stuff too! Why not, right? Anyway, just click this link to set up a free account. I haven't even gotten any junk mail!
Don't mean to sound like an advertisement, but it really does work!
Posts
