Finishing up the semester!

Well we finally had our first game of softball. We never played during the actual season. Our first four games were rained out and our last two were rescheduled, all for this past week. We played double-headers on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, which equals six games in three days. The first night we were destroyed by the other team. We lost by default, the score was something crazy like 17-1 and the second game was pretty much the same. On Thursday we kicked butt. We won both of our games. It came down to Friday to see if we would make it to the play-offs; we needed to win one of the two to continue on. And we did! We won the first game but lost the second. I have to go to a meeting today to see what day this week we play in the play-offs. I feel bad for our team, by Friday half of us were aching and sore.

This week is also our last week of classes. I can’t believe the semester is coming to a close! When I think back on the semester it’s been great. This is my last year living here at the main branch. Next year I’ll be doing my student teaching close to my parent’s home, to save money, I will be living with them for a year. I will be taking most of my classes at Kent Stark. I’m slowly saying good-bye to Kent Main! I will only be here in the fall semester on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s been a fun three years living on my own, I know it will be an adjustment moving back to having rules, but hey, my meals will be home-cooked and I won’t have to pay for the electric bill.

This year was a great junior year but I am looking forward to my senior and final year at Kent State. My college experience has been great!

New Activities

Another exciting opportunity happened this past week. I was accepted into Kappa Delta Pi which is an international honors society in education. I filled out an application, which consisted of two signatures (one who is a member of KDP and the other being a staff/professor of Kent), a list of activities/ volunteer experiences/ hobbies, Grade Point Average, and other basic information. There is a $40.00 initiation fee that needs to be turned in with your application. They contacted me via e-mail and the induction ceremony will be on Sunday. My parents are coming up for the occasion and a “light” dinner will be severed for new inductees. Hopefully I will have pictures to upload.
Another highlight/some what of a bummer is our intramural softball team. We “play” for three weeks on Fridays at 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. We were suppose to play our first game two weeks ago but were rained out and last Friday the game was cancelled again. So we have yet to play one game. I’m not sure if this is a sign we are not going to do very well or if it’s just a case of bad luck. As of now Friday’s weather is suppose to be good, we’ll see what happens. Intramurals are put on by the Rec and there are all boy/girl teams along with coed teams. They run Monday through Friday with numerous time slots available to play. Wish us luck as we hopefully begin our short season this Friday. (This is another event I will hopefully have pictures to upload.)

Mortar Board

This past Sunday I was initiated into Kent State’s Laurels Chapter of Mortar Board. I encourage all juniors to apply for this organization; it’s a national college senior honor society. It stands upon scholarship, leadership, and service. We had an informational meeting on Saturday. We met the other inductees and learned more about the organization. There are 50 of us who joined for the next year. Our responsibility is to do some sort of a service projext each month for the organization. For example on April 20, we’re hosting a Bowl-A-Thon. We’re also working with Pennies for Peace and helping with different projects involving literacy. This is a great resume builder and the experience will be great. I am very excited to see what this next year will bring. All the new members have wonderful ideas and are also ready to take on the new responsibilities. On Sunday for the induction ceremony, we received our pins for graduation and a certificate. Our families came for the event and it was very official. This is a great organization; again I encourage all juniors to apply for it next spring semester.

Taking our seats for the ceremony!