Open House, Rain, and Running...

So all week it was gorgeous out, starting last weekend. As soon as Open House came...Pouring alllll dayyy longggg. It was awful, but I should probably expect this now for Open House. It has been awful weather every year for Open House, and usually Showcase in the spring, too. Despite the weather we still had some troupers come out and visit us. Everything went pretty smoothly and we still had some pretty big tour groups. I'm guessing we were missing a lot of people who signed up though, thanks to the miserable weather.

In other news, I started running a couple months ago and recently decided to train for a marathon. I know what your thinking...I am absolutely insane. And I probably am. I was never a good runner, or a runner at all. But I decided to push myself and try to achieve this goal. Both my sister and brother have run marathons, so I figure if they can do it, so can I. I would love to run the Boston marathon, but I either have to qualify or get involved with a charity and raise 4,000 dollars. I am going to try to find a way to run Boston as a registered runner. If I can't I am going to run the Providence marathon in May. I started slowly, running for a half hour around the esplanade, a beautiful little park around the Charels river...and I have recently upped my mileage to about 8-9 miles, which takes me about an hour to do. Only about 18 more miles to go :) I will definately track my progress on here, and let you all know how I am making out, and how long it takes for me to want to quit. I have about 5 months to train, so hopefully I stay on track, especially with the holidays coming up. I found this blog, actually my mom sent it to me, about finding the will to run and the stuff that will keep you motivated. One of my favorite ideas is buying some new running stuff. This will make me excited to go out and run with some new gear. Going to get on that this weekend :)


I also just bought my winter ball dress! Tickets go on sale today! It is going to be at 60 state street, in the state room. This is one of my favorite Suffolk events, especially since I usually help out with decorating and/or planning for it.


Time to enter all those prospective students into the computer from this weekend!
Haley

Only three semesters left...

Just registered for my Spring 2010 classes. Only 3 semesters left at Suffolk! Ahhhh. Scary. I got the last spot in a couple of my classes, so I was pretty lucky to have a registration time at 8 am

Friday a bunch of us ambassador girls (and Andrew) got together and speaking of admissions, tomorrow there are info sessions all day and Saturday is open house! Register now if your interested in tours, info sessions, and every bit of Suffolk you would ever want to know!

This past weekend I went home. I was needing a break from the busy city, and I probably won't see my family again til' Thanksgiving, so I figured I would go home for the day, which turned into the weekend like it always seems to do. It is so hard to resist all that home cooked food. And plus is was gorgeous out and my sister convinced me to run outside in the park/ zoo near my house. (which turned into 7 miles!) On Saturday my mom, dad, sister, and I went on a 6 mile hike in the Blue Hills in Dedham, MA. It was way harder than I thought it would be, but the views were worth it. Tour time for me!
Haley

Sean Kingston and Girl Talk!

This past weekend was our annual Suffolk concert. In the past we have had Jason Mraz and Gym Class Heroes, but this was by far our biggest show/ venue. Sean Kingston and Girl talk performed at the House of Blues on Saturday night, and it was quite the show! Sean Kingston was good, playing all the songs we all know and love, but he only played for an hour. I think everyone was really there to see Girl Talk. I had never really heard of girl talk, but he mixes songs together to create a dance party with songs you would not normally consider "dancing material." His show was amazing, besides the glow sticks hitting you in the head every 2 seconds; but this was cause to throw your hands up and join in on the fun. There were giant balloon balls, toilet paper being dispensed from a machine, students up on stage... it was just an absolute rager! I'll show you what I mean with some pics other Suffolk students have taken...

November?!

November 2nd already. I cannot even believe it. only 3 weeks until my favorite holiday :), any excuse to eat massive amounts of food equals a great holiday in my book.

Halloween was this past weekend. I did not have a costume until the last minute and then I wore my roomate Rachel's pirate costume that I also wore my freshman year. Its fun to see what crazy things people come up with, but I hate the hassel of trying to find a good cotsume, and spending money for it. Never in my life have I bought a costume. We were always original growing up in my family, creating our own months in advance before we would go out trick or treating.

I had both my interviews and they both went really well. I went to one in government center (right near Suffolk) for a public relations firm and and I was offered the posisiton, but he told me that it was unpaid. I still would have done it but I went on another interview on Friday for a paid internship and was offered an internship for the spring. I wish I could do both but with admissions in the day and this new internship in the day, I do not think I will have any time for another internship, especially one that is unpaid. I am realllly excited about it. I'll explain the job more when I find out more later on in the semester. I now have to think about taking night classes for the spring, since I have to work in the day for both the internship and admissions. Its going to be a real busy spring,thats for sure. Trying to figure out which classes to take now and which to take later can be really stressful. I only have 5 required classes left, and I want to use this internship as my elective. Also, only some classes are offered certain semesters... so for certain requirements, like a cultural diversity, the ones I am interested in taking are only offered either spring or fall, so thats something else to take into consideration. As a junior, I register on the 10th, at 8 am online. Trying to plan all of this stuff out...

On another note, I got my ad analysis back for advertising class. I analyzed the Svedka advertistements. Here is one of them I discussed...

My teacher loved my paper and my analysis of the campaign as a whole. This advertisment class is kind of making me want to do more with advertising when I graduate.

Something to think about.

spring planning.

So I have an interview for an internship on Friday and I got a call from a craigslist job I applied to to set up an interview for a PR internship :) So far so good!
Now I am planning my classes for the spring. If I get an internship, it will be for class credit so I will only have to take 3 other classes. Im thinking of taking mostly night classes, which will probably be awful, having 3 hours of class straight, especially if one of them has to be bio :( The good thing about it will be having tuesday, thursday, and friday completely free, and also the days of mon and wed free. This will allow me to work in the days. Its just going to be tough getting through the night classes...
Ill write about the interviews later!
Wish me luck!
Hay

Just a recap.

Thursday was the first night in a long time all of my girlfriends got together and went out at night. We met up after I got out of work and went into faneuil hall. There were a group of 10 of us that all lived on the same floor 1st semester of sophomore year, before we all went abroad our seperate ways. Most of us now live in apartments, in the North End, West End, Beacon Hill, Comm ave... one commutes from home, and one is an Resident Assistant. We are all still close, although we do not see eachother every single day like we used to, we still have those nights where we can all go out togehter and it is just like old times...

Friday night I went home and visited some old friends from URI. I went to my friends sorority social, which was sponsered by Red Bull. Its crazy how different our schools are. There about 100 other girls there, and she knew every single one. She was trying to explain the whole big/litte/ rush and pledging thing to me, but it went right over my head. Being in a sorority is such a big commitment, I don't think I could ever find the time to do it between my 2 jobs, admissions, and the annual fund but it does sound like a lot of fun. We have a couple of sororities here, but they are more about community service and I just read in the Suffolk Journal that a new frat is starting here next year, which will be a chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

I am now also searching for internships. I have been using Craigs List and the website called erecruiting I got from career services. No luck so far, but ill keep ya posted.

Saturday morning I jumped on the Train from providence and got to admissions by 10 for the students with students info session, which is always my favorite event. We get to talk to an audience (which of course I love as a PR major) about specific topics and answer any questions they may have. We then split up and take groups on tours.

After that my old roomate from Australia came up to visit. A few of my friends from Wheelock who I met there came to visit too. I also died my hair, as you can see. Another life lesson, don't dye your hair from a box. Especially when the box says darkest brown. It will often come out black.

Yesterday was advising... usually you are given an advisor freshman year depending on your major and you have them for 4 years. Most students are required to take a freshman seminar, I took SLAMEDDD which was sex, love,addiction,marriage...etc. Sometimes that professor is your advisor. In the communications building, you can usually see any of the advisors, but I usually choose to see the same one every time. I like to get to know them and check in whenever I have to. I also used the same advisor to email and help me when I was abroad and to register for classes. I have now been to advising about 5 times, so i know the routine pretty well. This time, my advisor started off our convo by saying "Wow your getting up there, almost done huh?" Ahhhh scary. I only have 5 required classes left and the rest electives. There is a good chance I could end up in Madrid in the fall, if all goes according to plan, and I can also only take 3 classes next semester and have an internship for class credit. Life and classes at Suffolk really change once you hit Jr year. There is so much more freedom and so many more interesting classes you can take for fun, not because you have to, once you get done with all of those gen-ed classes.

Today is my PR midterm. Wish me luck! Have to run to class.

More later

Hay

Just a thought...

You ever just stop and think "how did I get here" or " What decisions in my life have lead me to where I am now?" I think its called the Butterfly Effect... when one tiny decision can change the rest of your life. Well maybe its not exactly what butterfly effect is, but its close enough.
For example, (And this is a big decision, not something small i guess) I almost went into school for communicative disorders or occupational therapy. So different from PR, that's for sure...which means I would not have come to Suffolk, maybe not have lived in Boston, had my own apartment, met all of my friends, maybe not have gone abroad...but I would have had completely different experiences. A random thought, but I was just thinking about it this weekend. I feel like I am getting older so fast and 2 decades later, I think I am at a good point in life to analyze my life so far. A bit cheesy maybe, but maybe there are some things I wish I had done differently, different friends I wish I had stayed in contact with, decisions or fights I could have undone. Not that I regret things in my life, because there is no point in regretting something you can't fix. Just something to think about for the next 2 decades of my life. I think a person can change completely in a couple years, especially during high school- college. I figure that people don't really know who they are or what they want in life until college and perhaps everyone goes through their own stage of "Identity Crisis." Not that I think I want to change my life or anything, but maybe just ad some more meaning to it. I am still interested in PR, just not sure what this major will lead to. Its not a definite job out of school, and I think that is starting to worry me a little bit. There is no definite standard salary pay, like if you were going to be a physical therapist or doctor, but I guess its just a risk I have to take. Besides, if I end up going to grad school, I may re-evaluate my choices again and decide if I want to change any of my paths at all.
Different than my usual blog post, maybe its the rainy weather, gloomy days can sometime bring deep thought I suppose :)
Tour time.
Hay