Can I just say Honors rocks? It is a struggling little program right now, but we are going to pick it up! So here is what has been going on.
The Honors Program has been having a hard time because Prof. Nickerson (the Honors director) has absolutely no time. He is teaching classes for one, works in the SUU library, has a family, is a member of the High Council for one of the college wards, and has many, many other crazy activities and such that eat up all of his time.
Because he is so busy, the Honors Program has been suffering. Actually, all of his activities have been suffering because of his crazy schedule (and the school keeps cutting them, but they won't let him have a secretary...and that is a whole other story). Another reason the Honors Program is suffering is his elite of his first class, the ones who helped him begin the program and helped him run it, have/are graduating and have/are leaving.
This past year the Honors Program has become really run down and we had almost no activities last semester, just the one MAD lecture. Due to this lack of activity--and the general run-downess of the program in general--a couple of my roommates, namely Monica, Melanie, Dacia and I, have decided to try and get the program running again. We are filling in the positions for the Honors Council, since we didn't have elections last year and the council kind of dissolved this year. We had our first meeting last Friday, and scheduled all sorts of fun activities and talked about ideas to get the program back on its feet. It was really fun and I am really excited. Now I just have to learn how to play "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the end of March. Ha. Wish me luck.
Anyways, that is what has been going down here in Cedar. I'll keep you posted!
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1 Feb 2008
7 Sept 2007
Hello Everyone!
Hello everyone!
Life has been relatively good. I am enjoying school but I am so glad that it is Friday! I’m not going to have a very relaxing weekend, but it is still the weekend nonetheless. Tonight I am going to an Institute dance with my roommates. I have no idea what I am going to wear, since the theme is pirates and I have no dress-up clothes and I am too cheap to go to DI and try to find something. Oh well, I will figure something out and hopefully it will be fun and worth the time that I could have spent on homework.
Tomorrow I have a work training meeting starting at 9 O’clock in the morning, and goes till 3. Ick. Ah well. At least they are feeding us. Isn’t strange that just the prospect of food makes everything worthwhile? Well, at least for me it does. I decided that I love food and I can’t understand how people can starve themselves. For example, my friend and fellow co-worker, Adam, eats nothing. I’m not exaggerating! The other day as we were sitting in the Writing Center, I pulled out my sandwich and apple (and I think I had crackers but anyway) I pulled out my lunch, and he pulled out his. Guess what it was. A Kudos Bar. A Kudos Bar! A couple of days later I came across him and his lunch again he had a sandwich bag of CHEZZITS! That was his lunch! I told him that he needed to start eating more. He laughed and agreed with me, and said he then joked that he was watching his figure. Ha. The boy is a stick. I could break him in two. Later that day I was talking to another friend and co-worker of mine, Chelsea, about Adam’s eating habits and we both decided that it would be nice if we could eat such small portions and call them meals, but we both love food to much to do so.
Wow, that was a random tangent. Anyway, continuing on with my weekend. Sunday, I have Mckay’s farwell to go to. Russell, Amanda, Kate and I are going to leave around 7:00 in the morning and drive down to Cannonville (which is about an hour and a half away from Cedar). We think that his ward starts at 10. (Long story.) In any case, I am excited for that. On top of all these wonderful activities, I have to do a whole ton of homework and we have to deep clean our apartment tomorrow too (because it really needs to be cleaned. And for those of you that want pictures of the apartment and my lovely roommates, I will get those up as soon as we finish decorating the front room. We need to cover the couches still because they are the UGLIEST couches that you ever did see. They are green, blue and creamish color plaid. Ew. So as soon as we coordinate those with the theme that we have going, I will take pictures and post them on the blog.) So basically, that is what has been going on, or will be going on, in my life. I will write soon and tell a little bit more about my classes and what else I have been up to, but I have to go now and send in my grades for Basic Writing by five. Love you all! Adios!
~Sam
P.S. Just so you know, I need to use this account for a class of mine (namely Intro. to Creative Writing) so I will be posting a plethora of my sad attempts at writing in this blog. You are more than welcome to comment, in fact I would love it if you would give me suggestions and ideas. Comment away!
Life has been relatively good. I am enjoying school but I am so glad that it is Friday! I’m not going to have a very relaxing weekend, but it is still the weekend nonetheless. Tonight I am going to an Institute dance with my roommates. I have no idea what I am going to wear, since the theme is pirates and I have no dress-up clothes and I am too cheap to go to DI and try to find something. Oh well, I will figure something out and hopefully it will be fun and worth the time that I could have spent on homework.
Tomorrow I have a work training meeting starting at 9 O’clock in the morning, and goes till 3. Ick. Ah well. At least they are feeding us. Isn’t strange that just the prospect of food makes everything worthwhile? Well, at least for me it does. I decided that I love food and I can’t understand how people can starve themselves. For example, my friend and fellow co-worker, Adam, eats nothing. I’m not exaggerating! The other day as we were sitting in the Writing Center, I pulled out my sandwich and apple (and I think I had crackers but anyway) I pulled out my lunch, and he pulled out his. Guess what it was. A Kudos Bar. A Kudos Bar! A couple of days later I came across him and his lunch again he had a sandwich bag of CHEZZITS! That was his lunch! I told him that he needed to start eating more. He laughed and agreed with me, and said he then joked that he was watching his figure. Ha. The boy is a stick. I could break him in two. Later that day I was talking to another friend and co-worker of mine, Chelsea, about Adam’s eating habits and we both decided that it would be nice if we could eat such small portions and call them meals, but we both love food to much to do so.
Wow, that was a random tangent. Anyway, continuing on with my weekend. Sunday, I have Mckay’s farwell to go to. Russell, Amanda, Kate and I are going to leave around 7:00 in the morning and drive down to Cannonville (which is about an hour and a half away from Cedar). We think that his ward starts at 10. (Long story.) In any case, I am excited for that. On top of all these wonderful activities, I have to do a whole ton of homework and we have to deep clean our apartment tomorrow too (because it really needs to be cleaned. And for those of you that want pictures of the apartment and my lovely roommates, I will get those up as soon as we finish decorating the front room. We need to cover the couches still because they are the UGLIEST couches that you ever did see. They are green, blue and creamish color plaid. Ew. So as soon as we coordinate those with the theme that we have going, I will take pictures and post them on the blog.) So basically, that is what has been going on, or will be going on, in my life. I will write soon and tell a little bit more about my classes and what else I have been up to, but I have to go now and send in my grades for Basic Writing by five. Love you all! Adios!
~Sam
P.S. Just so you know, I need to use this account for a class of mine (namely Intro. to Creative Writing) so I will be posting a plethora of my sad attempts at writing in this blog. You are more than welcome to comment, in fact I would love it if you would give me suggestions and ideas. Comment away!
4 Sept 2007
la vida de un estudiante universidad
Well this is my first post on my new blog because Nicole said that I should get one and I was thinking that I wanted one anyway so it gave me the motivation to do so. It will take me awhile(maybe) to get everything figured out, but I will strive to write, or maybe the better word would be create, a interesting blog for my dear readers. If I get any that is. Ha, ha just kidding. Well, a little about myself first. I am a sophomore college student at Southern Utah University. I love it here! I have five awesome roommates and a couple of good hard classes. Yay for hard classes. I am living at some relatively nice apartments, but at the moment we are not happy with them since our AC is broken. It can cause discomfort when it is 90 degrees in the house. Anyways, that is some of my life. I have to go now because the library is closing and they are kicking everyone out. I will write some more soon! Cheerio!
