Its been a while...

Okay, Now after a few week break I am back at it blogging away. I will try to do a few entries this week to catch up since the end of the school year.

The last weekend of school as part of my job with the office of Residence Life I helped to close up the Residence Halls. It is always crazy to see how fast the campus can get so quiet. I have to admit it is kind of fun for a day being on a quiet campus. All the busyness died down and all the stuff had stuff to do just no one was in a rush which was so nice and peaceful. While I was around I helped out at the Mass that is always held on the friday before graduation and then I helped out at graduation that Saturday. One of the secondary reasons I helped out with graduation was that then I got to see how it all works for next year and tell my parents what to expect. Being the oldest I have always experience events like graduations first in our family. On the Sunday after graduation I helped to move all the senior out of the on campus housing and then in the evening the office of Residence Life takes the staff out for dinner to celebrate a year of hard week. In a way it was a little sad this was my second and last year working for Residence Life. In a way it will be nice because I do have my internship at Nonprofit Leadership Alliance planning their annual conference to take place in January 2014 in Chicago!

After the weekend moving others out it came time to move out my self. On monday I had dinner with one of my wonderful friends and headed back to Chicago. I took a different way back since I was going to stop and see my sister at Bradley University and help her pack up some of her larger objects. It was nice to get a change of scenery on the way back (speaking in relative terms that is the scenery of farm towns can only change so much). It was fun to see my sister and she even took me out for lunch/dinner. I am not sure if it was because I was hungry or if it was actually super good but I had a fresh fish sandwich which was super good. In a way I really don't mind the 8 hour drive that much it is nice to have some time to your self to just think and channel surf the radio and find interesting things like the reading of hog prices and some great country music stations :)


Anyway this is at least an update of the first part. A lot has happened since I shall write another entry tomorrow.  

Here is a cool pic/quote I found:

Final week of classes and SNOW

Hi All,

It is may 3rd and we have snow on the ground what is wrong with this picture. The Royals had their game canceled due to snow yesterday. I have to admit I am from Chicago so I thought nothing can beat the crazy weather that Chicago gets but I have to hand it to you Kansas City 80 degree days in January and snow on May 3rd this is pretty crazy. On Monday it was 86 out and I commented to a friend after I got back from a run that it was almost too hot out and now today the high is only like 40. People walking back from classes in flip flops and when it is snowing out was a funny scene I have to admit.

Anyway enough about the weather, I am officially done with classes for the semester time to celebrate right? .......oh wait there are those things called finals coming up next week, kind of important. I am very fortunate to only have two in class finals next week. My two in class finals are for Accounting Information Systems and Philosophy 1000, Reality and Human Existence Which I have to admit has been my hardest class at Rockhurst so far) so that is how I will be spending my weekend. I have one take home final due next week as well then freedom for the summer right?? Oh wait I work for Residence Life as a Desk Manager and as part of our contract we have to stay though the Sunday after graduation to help check out all the seniors. All the moms get to help their recent college grads move out on Mothers Day, what a great way to say "I love you Mom" now come help me move back home" in some cases. It is crazy to see how quiet campus gets so quickly. I have to admit I am kind of sad my time as a Residence Life staff member is coming to an end but how does the saying go "Everything happens for a Reason" or "When one door closes another opens" Once everyone leaves and it is just the Residence Life staff on campus you almost feel like you have the whole campus to your self. Then a week from Monday I am going to make the 8 hour drive back home.

Well that is it for now. I am off to go study with a few others for Philosophy. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!!!

I saw this just a friendly inspirational reminder: