I look a bit like Elbert Einstein at the moment. My friend braided my hair last night as we were studying (ugh…sounds like some crazy middle school get together), and I just took them out. HAHAHA.

I am a bit depressed that John Edwards dropped out. Oh well, so goes politics.

The weather here has been….sporadic. I think yesterday the high was 45˚F and the low was around -15˚F. It is kind of crazy to wake up in the morning and dress for 45˚ weather and by the time you are done with classes it has dropped 30 some degrees. Although, it was pretty unusual for it to be so warm in late January (just one of the many delightful aspects of the wonderful Wisconsin weather you can look forward to).

Presidential Scholarship weekend is coming up. I remember my Presidential experience. I was a scared little high school senior who had never really interviewed for anything important before. Last year (and for this coming weekend) I got/get to be on the other side as one of the interviewers. Here are a few tips for any Presidential Scholarship hopefuls:
1) Dress professionally but not too dressy. The scholarships are supposed to be informal. We the interviewers try to keep it pretty low key and make you guys feel comfortable.
2) Conversations are good! Instead of treating the interview as a question and answer session, try to treat it like a conversation, it puts everyone at ease.
3) The people doing the interviewers want you to get the money. Two people on the interview team are current students who know how much this money helps in financing your education. They want you to succeed
4) One of the most popular questions asked is “how can you contribute to the campus/ if you could make any club, what would it be?” Be creative and find a club not already on campus.
5) Have fun and be open to the “Beloit experience” when spending time with your hosts

Tonight at dinner I was just a walking disaster. First, I spilled water all over myself. Then, after I had deposited my trash and tray into the proper receptacles, I turned around and knocked into the person behind me, causing their tray to crash onto the floor. As I was walking towards the door, I ran into someone else who dropped their cup on the ground. I then passed someone and didn’t even touch them (I swear!) and they dropped their salad all over the floor. It was like some bad high school movie.

Have a great rest of the week, good luck to those of you who are coming to Beloit for Presidential interviews…. Maybe I will see you here!

the weekend

My weekend was really busy, but unfortunately not with homework (it should have been though….). My parents are on a trip to the Virgin Islands, and the house sitter had a job interview in Chicago this weekend, so I was enlisted to take care of our cats. This meant driving up to Madison in the thickening snow on Friday evening. Once in Madison, I was supposed to stop at my old theater to meet a friend. Right as I had my hand on the door, I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and it was some family friends walking home from synagogue. They invited me for Shabbat dinner, so I called my friend to tell her I had to skip out on our nights tryst and went with my abductors. It was a lovely meal.

Saturday I slept till 2, watched the democratic and republican debates from last week that I had missed, and trekked back to the theater to meet the friend I was supposed to meet the night before. While there, I wrote this bawdy little poem with the Shakespearian poetry magnets of the fridge:

Yonder see me gracing perilous poisonous love,
Like lady light and saucy drunken ghosts
Beseeching this full codpiece
To slander yonder wanton wench.

I told you it was bawdy…and doesn’t make all that much sense. But hay, a lot of the magnets were missing, had to work with what was there.

Sunday I had breakfast at the original pancake house, and then went out to tea with another one of my friends. We stayed at the coffee shop for about 3 hours. I love coffee shops. Though there is a really good one here in Beloit, somehow I am always too busy to spend any extensive amount of time there chatting with people. On the way out of town I stopped by a natural food store and spent more money then I should have on Izzys and microwavable Indian food. I love Madison.

But now I have so much homework to do for tomorrow. It is not so much that I have a lot of things due, just that I have a lot of things I should read to be prepared. That is something that is way different about college then high school. In high school, I had a lot of little assignments that kept me caught up in class. Here, I pretty much only have big assignments and tests, so it is easy to feel like you have nothing to do when you really have a lot of information you are responsible for learning.

Well, hope everyone had a good weekend. Till next time….