Thinking about this time last year I didn’t realize how bright it gets when we move forward one hour. For the one obvious reason, on Monday morning at 7:45 the sun was up bright and shining which was the complete opposite last week. This week I experience an overload of work that had been pushed back till Wednesday. Although I was happy some of my work was pushed back I was upset that Wednesday was going to be one crazy day. On Wednesday I had two tests and one paper due, along with all the reading and work. Thankfully I worked though all of my school work like a real Wabash man does and even had time to attend all of my regularly scheduled club meetings and track practices. Looking back at where I was last year I had already ordered my plane ticket home to RI. Come to think of it, it hasn’t even crossed my mind on when and how am I going to get home for the holidays. I like to attribute this to me coming into my own here at Wabash and even in Crawfordsville. I have met so many people and learned a lot, but as the famous quote goes “there is no place like home”. I am pretty sure I need t put finding out what my plans are for Thanksgiving are, on my agenda as well. My plan for the rest of the week is to work ahead so that my weekend is clear and relax central!

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Do not forget prospective students, this Friday is Top 10 Day here at Wabash! For more information check out the future student section on the home page!

As expected the rest of my weekend was very fun. On Saturday afternoon after coming back from IU, I got down to cleaning a little before starting my homework. I did homework up until about 8PM when I began hearing blaring music coming from about 10 different rooms in the house. At this time I knew people were putting on their costumes for the Halloween party.  I knew I better start getting ready to. So while trying to get ready I discovered my Rick James costume was not complete! I couldn’t find a good enough shirt to go with the extremely tight jeans I had. So I decided to make a quick costume change and become the character Tyrone Biggums from the Chappelle Show. What was funny is that I had all the cloths in my closet to complete the homeless, street bum look. After I was done with my costume I went around to see everyone else’s, and I was surprised on how creative everyone was. Some of my pledge brothers were geeks, convicts, and cartoon characters. After the party the night ended with me hanging out in an upperclassman’s room eating pizza.  Sunday I woke up early to do laundry and read.  I went to the basement to fold laundry for a few minutes before church, but while I was down there the people I ALWAYS go to church with just so happen to leave without me. So I had to borrow one of my pledge-brothers cars to go to church. After church I went over to Brock Grahams house to finish my homework because I knew it would be completely silent. This week looks pretty good with a summer internship interview on Tuesday and a test on Friday.

This weekend was, when all was said and done, bitter sweet. On Saturday I woke up bright and early to give tours to prospective students. I must say I do miss giving tours on a regular basis, and I encourage any student remotely thinking of looking at Wabash College to schedule a tour. Although it was a brisk morning (weather wise) I still managed to give tours to 2 baseball players, and 1 tennis player. After the tours I changed into more casual attire. Then it was time for the much awaited football game against Wittenberg. I was amazed on how good Witt was. I thought the game was going to go into overtime scoreless. Unfortunately we had our first conference loss in 3 years by 3 points. The QB in the game, Josh Miracle who is a current junior in the Beta house, did very well. After the game I went to Lafayette to have dinner at the original Arnies Pizzeria with the church family. To my (and everyone else’s surprise) Purdue University beat Ohio State in football, so the traffic in West Lafayette was amazing with so many happy Boilermaker fans! The pizza was so good and was a little better than the Arnies in Crawfordsville. Back at school I spent the rest of the night hanging out, not doing much, and did a little reading. Sunday morning began as it usually does with me doing laundry, doing a little reading, going to church. This week after church was a little different because Josh’s girlfriend needed to catch her flight back to school. Josh had football practice so I volunteered to drive her to the airport in Indy. I was a little skeptical at first being an out-of-towner but I knew I remember the way and got her to the airport on time. When I got back I finished my laundry, and spent the rest of the night on school work. I found it very nice to see the house fill back up again, seems like fall break left this house completely vacant. Now starts the countdown to Thanksgiving Break!     

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GO PATRIOTS! Sunday afternoon I witnessed the biggest blowout in NFL history.59 to 0….wow!

I am so tired of practical jokes! On Thursday one of my roommates thought it would be funny if he turned everything on my desk upside down and blame it on another one of my pledge-brothers. I made it clear to both of them that, I didn’t think it was funny. The interesting thing about that is I wasn’t the only one who was the bud of a particle joke. On Friday that same roommate of mine, had his bed taken from our room and put outside. He also had all of his clothes in his closet taken to a disclosed location in the house and had his pillow put in the freezer. I would like to mention that all of this was done by someone other than myself. I refuse to retaliate on stupid games.  Back to Thursday I went to Chapel Talk, which was about philanthropy this week, and then back to the house to continue more school work. That night I went to AMPD, where we talked about the mission trip to Botswana that has now become a yearly trip during spring break. I really want to go to Botswana but I am pretty sure the weekend that they would leave is the same weekend when we have the NCAC Indoor Track Conference Championship. Hopefully we can work something out. Friday was so awesome because…it was the end of the school week. Classes went off without a hitch although it felt like God was trying to flood the earth again since it has been raining for the past 2 days straight. After classes I edited 2 papers for people, fixed my resume, applied for summer internships, and then worked out for 2 hours. After working out I got the good news that I HAVE A CAR FOR NEXT YEAR! I’ll explain more later when I have the details. That night as a bonding experience between us and the freshman pledges in our house we had a Beta dodge ball game in the Allen Center.  Let’s just say that I really suck at dodge ball. I suck so bad that I was used as the human sacrifice during the game so my pledge-brothers could get close to the line and score. That night I ended up talking to my lady friend about my tiring day at school on the phone for a while. I did plan on seeing her tomorrow after the football game but as things tend to do, stuff got in the way. I cannot wait to sleep in late tonight!  

This weekend is also parents weekend so, I bet everyone will be on their best behavior.

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I would like to make something clear to my reader first and foremost.  Weekends at Wabash can either be really fun, or kind of boring.  With that out of the way, this weekend has been on the boring side. I have observed that when there is a home football game, people tend to stay on campus. When there is an away football game, many people leave campus to have their share of fun elsewhere.  On Friday night I left my phone in my chair. Since my phone had the alarm still on it began to ring at 7 AM the next morning (the usual time I get up for class). I thought since my bed was lofted I could just reach down and grab it from my chair. I was VERY WRONG. I overreached and fell out of my bed and smacked into the floor about 5 feet below. My arm hit up against our new wood table top, giving me a pretty decent scrap on my arm. Later that morning I helped a church member out by helping her father move into his new house south of town. That afternoon I basically did reading for 2 classes and started on a C&T paper. Saturday night was probably the quietest Saturday night I have had in a long while. I went around and hung out with a few of my pledge-brothers in their rooms. Sunday morning I went to church, did laundry, and did school work until I went to bed around mid-night. A bright spot is my new Beta Theta Pi sweatshirt looks pretty nice! Hopefully my week is more eventful than my weekend.

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Congrats t to the football team with their 600^th win!