Bethany

My finals are over, my stuff is all packed up, and I am home free! Let me tell you, I am MORE than ready to take a break from this whole learning thing. Just wish me luck getting home with these roads….

I hope everyone has an amazing break and Merry Christmas!

With only two weeks left of the semester (one until finals), I think I can speak for everybody on campus and say that I am STRESSED to the max. Although I might feel better if I finally figured out some good study habits… something tells me my “well I wrote a sentence so I should get a break” strategy is going to do me more harm than good 🙁

SO.. If anyone has any top-notch finals week survival tips.. I’m all ears!

On another note: if anyone is trying to get ahold of me over break, I’ll be taking a note from Tommy Pickles.

I must go attack my giant to-do list now (apparently professors think assigning a ton of homework before finals is wise, I’m not too sure about that one).

Oh, and one last thing,..

This weekend I came home for the first time since I started college. For the most part, it was nice to see everyone. I did miss the freedom I have being in Iowa City, and the fact that I actually get to act like an adult there. I have a bunch of younger brothers so my family and I went to a pumpkin patch for the day (I froze to death!). I also went to the Heart of Darkness haunted house last night… unfortunately, it wasn’t nearly as scary as I had heard. I loved being able to see everyone again but let’s just say I missed the college life! Although I now have to do a bunch of homework I didn’t get done over the weekend 🙁

Family picture

Okay, okay. I am officially the WORST blogger ever…but have you seen my to do list every day!? It’s insane (maybe I’m just trying to do too much at once), and I just found out that I was accepted into a volunteer program I applied to last week. Trying to balance sleep, school, and friends is hard… even though I know which is most important, it’s still difficult to tell my friends I can’t go out because I have homework. Current goal: find out which library is the least crowded. Everyone “discovered” the Main Library as soon as midterms started showing up! Anywho, it’s midnight and I have class right away in the morning so I should probably get some rest!

PS. If anyone wants to donate $88.46 to Dance Marathon that just happens to be exactly the amount I have left to raise wink wink

#collegeprobz

I just completed my first ever homecoming week as a Hawkeye. I wasn’t able to do as many homecoming events as I would have liked (dang midterms!), but the ones I did do were really fun!

My favorite by far was getting to see Third Eye Blind in concert… honestly a dream come true! The best part? It was FREE.

I also was able to go to the homecoming game Saturday.. Even though we lost, it was so much fun! Hawkeye fans are crazy!

Third Eye Blind concert!

Michael and I are all ready for the game 🙂

This past week and a half has been jam packed. I LOVED it. Starting last Saturday, I went canning for Dance Marathon before the football game and raised $191 in addition to what everyone else raised.

Ready to can (yes, it was cold)

Then, on Tuesday, my roommate and I went and got the tattoos we’d been wanting. It was my first and I absolutely adore it.

First tat!

The following day, the Victoria’s Secret Pink campus reps held a little party at Hubbard Park with a bouncy house, giveaways, and the cutest pink van I have EVER seen.

Continuing with Friday, my roommate and I began our own business making and selling pocket sweatshirts and bows. So far we’ve made over a hundred dollars and hopefully this will keep up!

Danielle modelling one of our sweatshirts

Boxes ready to be shipped!

Also, this weekend, my boyfriend and I celebrated our one year anniversary together. Let’s just say he spoiled me rotten 🙂

Michael had flowers and chocolates sent to my dorm to start the weekend off

Followed by dinner at Carlos O’Kelly’s

He then spent the rest of the weekend letting me be a princess

On top of this crazy week and I had to study for my first round of midterms!

My nights this week

..Now it’s off to bed so I can wake up for work, class, and more studying for me!

Bye bye 🙂

Hey!

I officially moved in 4 weeks ago..and my roommate and I are still decorating our room. Crazy, right? In the past week we have added a makeup station, began covering the wall behind our futon in pictures and quotes, and got our TV set up!

Achieving the cutest room on campus isn’t easy, let me tell you. On Sunday night alone we had to corral two boys into (attempting) to help us. At this point we were trying to cut a hole in our carpet so we could wire the tv underneath of it. This is the same carpet that was underneath the leg of Danielle’s very heavy bed. It began with the two of us trying to use scissors..

Attempt #1

..Which did not work out. We then went and got our friend Estevan, who thought using a butter knife would somehow be more productive. Once again, it did not work out.

Attempt #2

We gave up on him and went back to the scissors…And got it to work!
Until we realized the carpet was under the leg of her bed and we needed to lift it up. That’s where boy #2 came into play. He held the bed up while we pulled the carpet out from underneath of it. (CARPET IS HEAVY AND YOU WILL GET WAR MARKS). Butttttt…Our tv area is set up!

Tv area 🙂

We then set up our makeup station by the window (utilize this space, space is precious!)

Makeup corner

We’ve also began decorating our desks and covering our walls in quotes and pictures

Wall #1

I’ve really got to get back to studying for my exam on Monday.. Bye!

Hey!

I have just two quick things to say:

1. Today is 9/11.. Why is the minute of silence not done anymore? In my four years of high school we didn’t do it and it wasn’t done in my class today either. We are STILL AT WAR.. It’s a sign of respect for those still overseas. I can see not doing it after the war has ended and our troops are back home. However, with our men and women still overseas, we should be honoring them on the day this war started.
2. Yesterday was National Suicide Prevention Awareness Day. I supported it by wearing the color yellow, which is the color symbolizing suicide, and writing the word “love” on my wrist. That may not be much, but those who are considering suicide and see it may rethink their plans because they can physically see that someone cares.

Supporting suicide awareness

I seem to have found my voice since coming to college and now and have no issue stating my beliefs and standing up for what I believe in!

🙂

Nothing exciting has really happened this week. I’ve got both a cough and a cold (not fun at all!) and a pile of homework to work my way through.

Also.. BEAT STATE WEEK IS LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY.

I promise I’ll write a better and longer post once all my homework is done and I’m feeling better!

Bye!

I recently started working in the Hillcrest Dining Room (by recently I mean I got off work about 2 hours ago) clearing the dishes people send back when they’re done eating. I don’t even know who some of these people are but I already hate them – how hard is it to send your stuff back the right way!? Which led me to this: a list of tips for those of you who are considerate and kindhearted and just want the workers to love you.

• If you have syrup (or anything else sticky, such as peanut butter) on your plate, do NOT stack your other dishes on it! I have to pull it apart and I end up getting covered in your syrup. On the same note, don’t put you empty cup in a bowl full of syrup (this actually happened).
• Throw your silverware in the silverware slots! I know that I’ve forgotten a time or two but a huge group put all of their stuff in at once and not one of them took care of their silverware. It’s right there and it makes our job go a lot more smoothly.
• Don’t stack your cups if they have drinks or ice left in them. I have to unstack them when they come back either way, but it makes it a bit more difficult to takecare of everything efficiently if I have to keep stopping to unstack cups.
• Why are you throwing away unopened bananas or unpeeled apples!? We can’t use them again so you’re literally throwing away perfectly good food. If you realize you’re too full to eat it after all, can’t you stick it in your bag and eat it as a snack between classes?
• If it didn’t come from the kitchen, don’t send it back to the kitchen. Somebody put their ice packs on the conveyor belt today which I then had to open, dump the ice out, and throw the bags in recycling and others sent back their Powerade bottles. There are recycling bins everywhere, use one!
• I love it when you stack your plates and bowls together.. Just not when they all have food left on them. If you’re going to do that make sure the food is all on one plate (the top one!).
• Put your dishes as close to the mouth of the conveyor belt as possible! The belt only moves when there are dishes on it and if I see it start moving I have to wait for the dishes to reach me.. The wait can get pretty long when people put their dishes on the opposite end.

First day of work!

Hopefully you’ll follow this advice and win my heart!
Bye!