Midterm Season

So this week alone I have three midterms.....This means three tests that are at least 45% of my grade if not more. The best part is.....they are all within 12 hours or less of each other. Gotta love college.

I'm not very good at taking tests really, especially multiple choice. I always second guess myself unless I really, really, know what they are talking about.

This week is going to be interesting because I have those three midterms and then bootcamp at the end of the week. Bootcamp is basically Hall Council training at a camp in Northern Oregon. I won't be going up till Saturday but then I'll be up there till Sunday afternoon.

We are starting our Tango routine for Coolshoes on Tuesday. I'ts gonna be intersting becuase Cathy wants all the girls to be able to do the splits so that we can put a leg on our partner's shoulder.....Yeah I'm not really there yet.

This week is gonna be interesting for sure. I'm ready though, I can handle what ever come my way.

My Job (photos)

My Job

I think one of the many questions I have gotten this year has been. How do you like being an RA? I would like to clarify my job a little bit. I am NOT an RA. I don't even work for UHDS. (University Housing and Dining) I work as an executive of the Resident Hall Association aka RHA. That is the governing body of students that help support and promote the halls and their Hall Councils.

My full tittle is the National Communications Coordinator or NCC. My job in a nut shell, I represent OSU by taking a delegation or residents to leadership conferences. There are three a year, PACURH, No Frills, and NACURH. I am the representative of OSU who sits in on boardroom meetings and voices my opinion on Pacific and National decisions that are made.

PACURH is the Pacific Affiliate of College and University Resident Halls. This is just the Pacific Conference. It will be held at Western Washington University this year on November 13, 14, and 15. Since WWU is a smaller school we are only allowed to bring 5 delegates besides ourselves and an advisor. In previous years an average delegation was between 8 to 10 people plus the NCC and advisor. I'm excited for this as well as a bit stressed.

No Frills is the Winter Conference that is all business. Only the NCC, Advisor, and NRHH President goes to this. (NRHH is another group on campus that I am a member of, the National Resident Hall Honorary)

NACURH is just like PACURH except it's national. This year it's hosted in Southern California at a term school which means that it's actually going to be at the beginning of the summer vs. in the spring. It'll be interesting. The last NACURH was at Arizona University. That was my first conference as NCC. The theme was "our place in time" so we dressed up in 50s outfits one day.

As for what goes on at these conferences....allot of spirit for the delegates and allot of meetings for me. The delegates get to go to programing info sessions to learn things they can bring back to OSU. I require that they take notes at these so that they can type up what they learned that way I can compile everything and hand it out to the halls later.

There is really allot more to it but for now this is a good short summary. ;)

Coolshoes - Sing SIng and Lindy Hop

I am sooooo excited for this Saturday.....excited and slightly nervous.

Coolshoes, the OSU ballroom dance team, will be dancing in Medford on Saturday at the Armory for the Medford Jazz Jubilee. The thing is, this is only week 2 of the Fall Term, and in the past Coolshoes doesn't really just do performances that soon. We have basicly only had 4 class periods to learn everything. That means 8 constructed hours. This also means that the 16 of us, 8 couples, have had to really get our butts in gear and practice a bunch out side of class.

SO what am I personally doing? We have two routines, Sing Sing which is single time swing and Lindy Hop. I got really lucky in that both my partners have been on Coolshoes before and really know what they are doing. This also means that they know how to do tricks. Sing Sing is almost all technical and doesn't have very many tricks BUT Lindy is basicly all tricks. For that so far, my partner and I have been assigned 3 different tricks. Kind of cool!

The Photo that is above is the 2001 Coolshoes group. I put this up so that you can see the costumes we will be waring for Lindy. My partner and I are Yellow. If you want a little more history and old Pics of Coolshoes the link is bellow.

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