Pancakes at Paul's

Happy Chanukah! I haven’t done much for the holiday, being away from home and all. The Interfaith House along with Am Yisrael had candle lightning last night to celebrate, but unfortunately I couldn’t go due to a meeting I had for the BCVRP. The admissions office has a chanukkiyah next to their Christmas tree, and it has been nice to see it when I come into work.

I kicked off my week on Sunday night by crashing an FYI pancake eating party at Paul Stanley’s (physics prof) house. I was in his FYI last year (and his physics class this year), but the party was supposed to only be for this years FYI. I ran into Johanna, the TA for both my FYI and Paul’s FYI this year, on her way over there, and she invited me along. It was fun to meet more freshmen, and to eat pancakes at 9:30 on a Sunday night in a real house. There was conversation and Wii playing galore. I was big on the conversation, not so big on the Wii…I am not really a video game type person.

The rest of the week has been creeping by. With almost everything due on Friday and two finals to study for, I have been spending more time in the library and the Chamberlin than anywhere else. I did get out to go to a BelCon meeting on Monday. Though I have to go to all BelCon meetings because I am the representative from International club, this one was special. President Burris was there to discuss study abroad. Last year the study abroad program spent a lot of money on study abroad, and apparently the board of trustees told the college they needed to figure something out to deal with the influx in study abroad spending. I am not going to get into it here, because I really don’t understand the situation to its fullest. I am not planning on studying abroad, as much as I would like to, and admit I have not paid as much attention to this issue as I should be doing.

Anyway, it was great to see so many people attending the meeting, not just the BelCon members. There were even posters full on names of alumni, people currently studying abroad, and people who could not attend the meeting who supported the study abroad program. The turnout was great and most of the questions were good ones.

And now to get back to homework…oy vay