{"id":232,"date":"2013-02-11T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:21:35","slug":"basketball-and-cold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/2013\/02\/basketball-and-cold-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball and Cold Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Hawkeyes!<\/p>\n

I hope the first several weeks of the semester have been going well for everyone! I’ve been so busy with homework and I even have a few tests coming up (ahhhh!). I knew I was going to have a busy week, so last weekend I decided to have a little fun too. A girl on my floor volunteered to go to the women’s basketball game with me(thank you!) so I didn’t have to go alone. It was a lot of fun and a great experience. I had never been to a college basketball game before so this was a first for me.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The pep band before the game started(we got there pretty early)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The dance team(Spirit Squad) and the cheerleaders dancing to the fight song to start the game.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Good<\/a>

Good shot!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shoot!\"<\/a>

Shoot!<\/p><\/div>\n

We ended up losing, which was sad. We fought hard though and the game almost went into overtime. We lost with a last second basket with :02 left on the clock. It was an awesome game, I just wish we could have won.<\/p>\n

After the game I decided I should do some cleaning around my dorm. First on the list was wash dishes (I really should get on a more regular dish-washing schedule). I couldn’t get hot water, but decided I didn’t want to keep putting off washing them. I used a new dish cloth for the first time and ended up with this result. Isn’t it pretty? My favorite color is purple, you know. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Lesson<\/a>

Lesson Learned: watch out for dishcloths that might lose dye. Don’t wash them with any lighter colors! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

After washing dishes, I checked my Hawkmail (University email account) to find out the steam plant had a power-outage and we would be without heat and hot water for approximately 4 hours. It was really not a huge issue for me. Our room is always too warm anyway (with the heat off it was actually quite comfortable) so I wasn’t too worried. I had actually wondered why our room was so comfortable when I walked in. I guess I just assumed my roommate had opened the window. In the email informing us about the power-outage, our Hall Coordinator recommended that we also avoid the showers for this time period. It made me laugh, the showers would not have been something I would have thought about until I was actually in the shower with the water on. I love that even in a big university, the staff still has a great sense of humor that they’re more than willing to share. It just makes everything feel more like a community rather than a school, especially in the dorms when you’re just looking for that home-y feel.<\/p>\n

I actually have quite a bit more to talk about but those events also include a lot of pictures, so I’ll save that for a different post. Consider this one of my semi-mini-posts \ud83d\ude42 I’m really excited to tell you all about the first chem lab of the semester \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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