Hey there blog readers!!!

Well I’m not going to lie but this has been the busiest week- for everyone. The fifth/ sixth week of school is usually really busy with midterms/ finals/programs/sports/ activities (slash life!) at Walsh. Usually at this time students are acclimated and comfy in the college atmosphere but some may still experience homesickness or that anxiety that things are soon going to be really busy with finishing everything on time. Its funny (yet scary) to think that we already had gone through a month of school. I was flipping through my calendar today and I noticed that class registration starts in two weeks! That’s like the first alert that the semester is coming to an end! But it also hit me that this is my second to last registration here at Walsh and it really kind of left me feeling crappy. I just cannot believe that my career here at Walsh is more than halfway over! I remember when I was a freshmen living in my Alexis room, wondering how I’m going to be able to live with strangers for the next 4 years of my life. I remember thinking that college is really hard and sometimes ready to give up after staying up 3 nights in a row for a test that I still did bad on. But I guess as we say in Physics class “Time is always positive, never negative- it just keeps moving forward”. Even though things have been feeling a little hectic and quick lately I still can’t just stop and ponder on what happened the past two years because I still have two more left. That’s what I kind of like about being a junior… even if your past two years of college were a terrible experience (or your GPA is in the negatives because of a few fun times) you still have another two years to turn things around! Glass is half full folks!

This Wednesday was also the Brother Charlie Bowl-a-thon and it was definitely a great time. At first I was a little skeptical about going because I didn’t feel so good that afternoon. One thing about dorms… it’s great until one person gets sick. I went to the Bowl-a-thon and I felt a little better. It was an awesome night spent with friends as well as helping a great cause and donating money. My friend Sarah Reed and I were in charge of selling raffle tickets and we were absolute pros. Both of us are pretty crappy bowlers (sorry Sarah… but it’s true) so our time spent did more good by collecting donations. This was perfectly fine with me because I just get embarrassed when everyone is in the 100-130 range and I’m at a 38 ha-ha. Just wanted to give a personal thank you to everyone who donated and everyone who came out to support the Walsh Community, it was an amazing night for a great cause. I posted some pictures for you guys finally (I know I’m not always the best about that) so enjoy and check back next week for some more great news and I’m off to studying microbiology and astronomy—oyyy!

-Monika D.

Some kids at the 2009 Bowl-a-Thon

Anna & I, She probobly won a game! :D