I’m a true Christmas lover. I take the nothing-Christmasy-before-Thanksgiving rule very seriously. It keeps Christmas special. As soon as Thanksgiving ended, I began singing Christmas songs constantly. I love Christmas. Always have. I wasn’t the kind of kid that couldn’t just fall asleep on Christmas Eve. I was the kind that couldn’t fall asleep weeks before in anticipation of the […]
A few weeks ago, I had my first day of clinicals at the nursing home. The first six weeks of the semester, I was in lab learning how to perform certain procedures.Now that I know how to perform these procedures, I am able to use and apply what I have learned in the clinical setting. Here is a short synopsis of my […]
Gobble Gobble! Do you like my turkey impression? Yay, it's that time of year again! This Thursday (happy Thanksgiving!) is the annual Turkey Bowl soccer championship. It's also the time of year when I'm not the only bird on campus! So I gotta question for you. . . A Stingray versus a Shark: who would win? It's been an exciting […]
Gobble Wobble. Wobbledy Gobbledy. Gabobble. Translation: Thousands of students. Two collegians. One bird. You’ve heard about it. You’ve waited for it. You may have even competed for it. And now it’s finally here. The Turkey Bowl. This is the once-a-year event where the top two collegian soccer teams of the college compete for the coveted title of this year’s soccer […]
The quake of the earth as thousands of men give their battle cries--the resounding clang of spears and swords--the crashing of chariots and neighing of horses as their pilots drive them to war-- I’ve had so much fun with all of these things rushing through my head while I read Homer’s The Iliad. Thankfully, there’s not a bunch of violent […]