Indiana University East

just wanted to give you a quick update. WE WON! okay, let me elaborate… we won at the conseco vs. holy cross. it was nice to get to perform with the dance team and to see the guys come out ahead by twenty. below are some pictures from our trip.

congrats again gentlemen! hope you’re all still enjoying your break and until next time, take care!

always, d

soo classes are finally over and now it’s just work and dance until january 20th. what a relief! i was lucky because most of my classes didn’t have comprehensive finals so as everyone else was cramming, i was just doing homework. i wouldn’t say i was completely off the hook considering i did seven hours of homework last sunday and then took monday and tuesday off of work in order to finish the rest; however, i definitely got lucky this time around. so if any of my profs are out there reading then thanks a bunch!

this end of this semester seems to have been pretty laid back. we’ve had quite a few basketball games and relaxation day was a really good time. SET gave out stress balls at relaxation day and for some unmentionable reasons we ended up figuring out that a lot of students wanted to play dodgeball at a set time each week. soo… next semester (starting on fri, january 23rd) we will be playing dodgeball at noon. we have around 25 students signed up so it should be a good time, especially if everyone shows up. if you’re free on fridays (or even if it’s just one random friday) then you should definitely stop by.

two weekends ago we played brescia at home and it was our first loss at the tiernan. we only lost by two points but we also almost lost two of our best players which was a bit scary. luckily, they both were able to come back and i got a text yesterday claiming that they won down at alice lloyd in kentucky so congrats on that one gents. we play at the conseco fieldhouse (in indy) on wednesday… i hope that everyone gets a chance to make it out to see them play. our dance team is going out in between our game and the pacers game to have a bit of a christmas gathering and exchange gifts. it should be a pretty good time and a chance to relax since all of our finals should be over.

i can’t believe it’s so very close to christmas! this weekend my boyfriend and i stopped by a christmas sweater party that was hosted by some friends across town. there were a TON of people there and it was definitely a very good time. i might also add that it was a great chance to check out some really ugly christmas sweaters. it sparked an idea that i’d appreciate any feedback on… what if we hosted a christmas sweater party here at iue or made a basketball game themed around christmas sweaters? everyone could wear their christmas sweater to the event and then we could give them a t-shirt that was screen printed like an ugly christmas sweater with the year on it somewhere. then we could turn it into a charity event by stating that in order to get in they either have to devote to donating their christmas sweater after the game or they have to pay $5 for admission. all of the clothing and money could go to charities and they’d already have a t-shirt that we gave them to wear after they’ve given up their sweater. if it was a success then the ugly christmas sweater t-shirts could continue through the years and we’d have ourselves a new tradition. what do you think? it might be ludicrous but these are the types of things that i am always trying to brainstorm for SET (our student events team).

well, i’m out of here for now but i hope you enjoy your break and that you get a chance to come out and watch the bball team in indy. until next time, take care!

always, d

soo thanksgiving break was fabulous. i finally got to visit my grandparents up in newark, ohio for the first time since last christmas… soo very long overdue! this is our last week of classes and i have a business plan a.k.a. huge assignment that’s supposed to be done by today. (ehh..) i have yet to start it because of that little issue often referred to as procrastination; however, i’m sure it will be completed with plenty of seconds to spare. apparently, i can only work under pressure but i guess that’ll pay off when i get out into what so irritatingly is called “the real world”.

campus was extremely quiet last week due to the break and it has yet to pick up in the graf yet this week either. snow is falling and it’s the first of the december… i’m a little curious as to where the last few months went? it seems like just yesterday that i was cheering on my boyfriend while we went from one summer softball league tournament to the next. now here it is a few weeks from christmas and five months away from when i’ll walk through my graduation. it’s quite exciting if i might say so myself, but these last months have been quite a blur.

tomorrow is relaxation day so i hope you have a chance to come out and enjoy yourself, even if it’s only for a few minutes in between classes. we (the student events team) got twenty five door prizes to give away that are all valued between 5-25 dollars and there will be candy and pop, movies, popcorn, stress balls and massages among other things. it’s from noon to three so i hope to see you there.

i’m off to get some things for tomorrow but until next time, take care and good luck with final projects & exams!

always, d

sorry, i don’t mean to be rejoicing about a break from classes… but… the truth is that i am definitely rejoicing!!! a week without classes and three days without work, it doesn’t get much better than that. we have this week of classes, thanksgiving break and then one more week of classes and a week of exams. sounds pretty sweet if you ask me.

congrats to the basketball team who went undefeated this last weekend and won the tourney down in kentucky. it’s nice to finally have a winning season! i’ve been following the teams for three years now and sincerely hope that most of the players from this season will stick around for next year. the first year i had several friends on the team and followed them almost everywhere so it was always a pretty good time, but the best time was definitely when we travelled to taylor and got to witness ’silent night’. let me explain…

a couple of my friends and i drove over to this game (right before christmas) and we were amazed at how many of their students showed up because they packed their bleachers on all four sides and even had students sitting on the floor in front of the bleachers. they themed their game around ‘the night before christmas’ so everyone there was wearing pajamas, which i might add… was rather random until we figured out what was going on with the theme. so tons of their students packed the gym and you would think that it would be ridiculously loud, but no.

no clapping, no yelling, no talking. nothing. just silence. it was insane and like nothing i’d ever seen before.

until they hit ten points (or whatever number it was) and then you couldn’t hear yourself think.

literally. everyone in the entire gym was screaming, the pep band was playing as loud as possible and honestly, i thought my eardrums were going to burst. this didn’t go on for two minutes, it went on for the next two hours or so and then my ears rang for two days. neither team could talk at timeouts because they couldn’t hear eachother and they certainly couldn’t call any plays while on the court because obviously that wasn’t going to work.

why am i telling you this?

because we need something like it! we need students that have that heart and those that will stand behind their team no matter what outcome. we need them to sit back and relax when we’re sailing ahead of the opponent by thirty points and we need them on the edge of their seats waiting on that three-pointer to go in during the final seconds of a close game. we’ve finally got the talent on the basketball team and now we need the fans to back them up. a few of us are going over to iupui to watch the guys this weekend and i hope that you can make it too.  iupui in indy, 7 pm, saturday night the 22nd.

okay, i’m done ranting and raving now.

i’ll update you soon on relaxation day and such but for now i’m off to get some things done. hope your week goes well and until next time, take care.

always, d

just wanted to take a moment to congratulate our basketball team on winning their tournament this weekend… the student section was AMAZING and i hope they continue supporting the guys because i know they appreciate it soo very much. above is our new mascot who is quite the character. i hope you get a chance to make it out to the games to see him in action.

also congrats to our homecoming king Derrick and our homecoming queen Carri!

i’ll be back in a couple of days to update but until then i hope you enjoyed your weekend and that your week goes well. take care.

always, d

soo… it’s almost five o’clock in the morning and i’m officially exhausted and it’s the beginning of the week.  i wish that i could say that i’m up bright and early for monday but the truth is that i’m still awake from sunday. why??? because i just finished the dance team’s “howlerina” for the decorating contest. procrastination at it’s finest i guess… i am pretty excited about seeing what the other fifty wolves will look like that were a part of the contest. here’s a peek at our wolf!  

the only bad thing about decorating is that i feel like we have a cat or dog in the house because there is “wolf hair” all over the room that i decorated it in and it’s definitely on my clothes too so i’m sure it will be strung out all over the entire house. oh well.

our first home basketball game was on saturday. the red wolves won… ofcourse!!! haha, i’m only kidding as we shouldn’t be arrogant it’s just really nice to see the guys who have worked so hard come out with a win. congrats to them. our dance team had our first performance as well when we danced to michael jackson’s thriller after the game.  i love these ladies, we seem to be a good team and we’re getting along pretty well which is always nice. here’s a pic of us all decked out in our costumes.

and another of us in our uniforms…

here’s a sign that someone left at the game… i absolutely LOVE this!  (joe ramey played for us last year and took every shot that he could which made him the number one scorer in the nation within our division. i’m not sure who made the sign but it’ll be returning to the tiernan on friday. no offense to joe as he seemed like a nice guy, it’s just great to see some ongoing fans and spirit. )

hope you enjoyed the update. i’m not going to make this too lengthy considering i’m getting up in two and a half hours for work. hope you have a great week and that i’ll see you all at the homecoming festivities. if anything at all be sure to make it to the basketball games on friday at 9 and saturday at 3:30 or 5:30 (depending on if we win on friday.) until next time, take care!

always, dns

sorry, it seems as though my neglect of this blog has been quite ridiculous!!! i apologize soo very much for not keeping up with lately. i feel like i continuously am talking about how busy i am so i’m going to refrain from rambling on about that but again, my apologies on my lack of a recent post.

i want to share with you a little story…

the other day i had an IU all-campus meeting at IUPUI and after getting lost at the I-65/70 interchange (which I might add on my own defense: getting lost seldom ever happens to me.) i found the exit and realized that IUPUI posts absolutely terrible directions on their website for getting there from the east so beware if you’re ever visiting IUPUI and use mapquest instead! Regardless of my ridiculous journey to IUPUI I was amazed at the new conference center and was kind of caught off guard with one of the introductory comments that we had to make about ourselves. The question was: What is your proudest/most memorable moment at IU?!

So I’m curious… what is yours?

as for myself, i sat there pondering the question for a moment and listening to the responses of many others. i could think of many things that were memorable about my two years at IUE but nothing that was standing out about the rest. (one of my favorites was the first basketball game last year that was EXTREMELY close and went into overtime… the crowd was going insane and you couldn’t hardly find a seat in the bleachers that were pulled out at the the tiernan. it was excellent. another was “silent night” when we played taylor u which i can explain later. ) so i started thinking… what am i looking forward to most?!? and it dawned on me that there were a couple of things that were coming up that would probably be most memorable.

#1: graduation. simply because i’ll be graduating.

#2: homecoming. royalty, 50 silhouettes of a decorated wolf, bonfire, the basketball tournament and a new tradition… can you beat it? i guess what’s most exciting to me is the fact that we really haven’t devoted a week to doing an event like this. it screams traditional college lifestyle and i LOVE it. here’s the schedule incase you haven’t heard yet…

Monday, November 3rd

Noon: Homecoming Court announced in the Graf followed by a tour of the decorated wolves from building to building.

2pm: Judging of the Wolves

Tuesday, November 4th

Noon to 2pm: 70’s Day in the Graf

Wednesday, November 5th

Noon to 2pm: 80’s Day in the Graf

8pm: Mentalist Christopher Carter performing in Vivian Auditorium

Thursday, November 6th

Noon-2pm: 90’s Day in the Graf

7-9pm: Band, Bonfire and Crowning of the King and Queen behind Hayes Hall

Friday, November 7th

11:30 am: Second Annual Chili Cookoff in Whitewater Hall

9:00 pm: First Round of Men’s Basketball Holiday Inn Richmond Classic, IU East vs. OSU Lima at Richmond High School’s Tiernan Center

Saturday, November 8th

1 pm: Women’s Volleyball vs. Asbury College at the RHS Tiernan Center

2-5 pm: IU East Alumni Association Tailgate at the RHS Tiernan Center

3:30/5:30 respectively: Consolation and Championship Games of Men’s Basketball Holiday Inn Richmond Classic at the RHS Tiernan Center

So that’s Homecoming! [Back to proper capitilazation ] There will be t-shirts given out all week and if you missed the wolves on campus throughout the week then you can check them out at the game on Saturday because somehow I’m going to manage taking 50 decorated wolves to the Tiernan Center in my little compact car. If you see some random car filled with wolves just smile and wave please because it’ll probably be me.

I’ll try to keep you updated if I hear any more details on Homecoming (or anything else for that matter.) And I promise not to let it be a month before I update this next! Hope to see you around campus and until next time, take care!

always,

dns

i made the realization this morning that i need to start paying attention when they talk about applying for graduation.

i thought this day would never come.

hope you have a great day. i’ll post again soon but until then, take care.

always,

danielle

just thought i’d post a quick message to you before our dance team practice starts. things seem as though they’ve been crazily busy at school lately and i have absolutely no idea where the first part of this week went but i guess that i’m not complaining about the fact that there are only two more days until the weekend. working over thirty hours at one job and two days a week at another job and taking an overload of classes can start to take its toll on weeks such as this one but atleast when it’s all said and done we all know that we’re walking away with an IU degree, not much debt, and the odds are pretty good that we’ll be prepared for what folks like to call “the real world”. it makes me chuckle when i hear that i better appreciate how “easy” it is now because when i get to the “real world” it’ll be much harder. HA! i’ll be excited for a day when i can use this degree, get a job and when 5:00 rolls around then i’ll hit the door and not have five hours of homework to do on top of the 40 hours i’ve already put in. i’m blessed though, i’ve got a great support system and i’m thankful for that. we’ve got a lot of great things here on campus that seem to be typically underutilized such as tutorial services, great professors, and just the helpful students and staff in general. it’s nice to see those who believe in our generation and want us to do better. well, they believe in non-traditional students as well (ofcourse!) but i can only speak for myself. the chances are pretty good that if you’re reading this post then you’re either looking into a degree, you’re on your way to getting one, or you’ve already got one so i commend you. it’s funny to hear about retention problems on campus here and at many other places because to me getting a degree just seems like second nature no matter what it takes to get to that graduation ceremony. personally, i can’t wait to have another chance to flip that tassle to the other side and launch that ridiculous little hat into the air… it is why i stay up at all hours of the night trying to fit everything into this schedule and it is why i drag myself out of bed the next morning to go into school.

it is why i am here, and i wouldn’t have it any other way.

until the next post, take care.

dns