More End of the Year Fun

We'll miss you Heiden!

So this past weekend was everyone's last weekend on campus which is crazy!  I can't believe that my sophomore year has already gone by.  To celebrate the last weekend on campus, my roommates and I went to a get together at our friends' house because they were all graduating.

My Sophomore Roomies

Girls were told to wear nice dresses and guys wore nice shirts; some even wore suits and ties!  My roommates and I had a lot of fun getting dressed up, putting makeup on, and putting on some heels for a nice little end of the year gathering =)

Jess, Kylie, and myself

After, Kylie my roommate, our friend Jess, and I went to Kylie's teammate's townhouse to hang out with some of the water polo girls.  Again, it was fun to do something a little out of the norm, as opposed to my normal weekend routine of hanging out with the same group of people at the same apartment.

I think it's time to get back to studying-- I've got my stats final tomorrow, a fashion final on Wednesday, and then my end of the year fashion project (a skirt) to check off my to do list and then I'm FREE!  As for the rest of the summer, I've got a MSG/SAC retreat from Wednesday until Saturday, volunteering at graduation on Sunday, and then my parents are helping me move into temporary housing and I'll be starting my new job!  T-minus 48 hours until summer...

A Wonderfully, Amazing Day

Last Thursday was awesome!  My friends and I decided to have an end of the year picnic/bbq on campus.  It was really convenient because we have a pavillion on campus (I can actually see it from my apartment!) where there are grills and picnic tables for students to use on warm days like Thursday.  I made this really yummy spinach and ranch dip, but we also had hotdogs, hamburgers, ribs, fruit salad, and s'mores to name a few things... yum!

One of our picnic tables of friends =)

While I was hanging out with my friends, I had an unknown number call my phone.  I recognized that it was an Erie area code and was expecting to hear back to see if I got a job or not and I just had a good feeling that it was them.  Sure enough, it was Charming Charlie, the accessories store in Erie that I want to work at and they were calling me to say that I got the job!  I was so excited because that meant that I had a summer job in Erie and I could stay here for the summer with some of my friends =)  It was turning out to be a pretty good day.

After we all finished eating, my friends and I were enjoying the nice weather (it was supposed to rain, but it held off for us) and we tossed a frisbee around and then played sand volleyball for I don't even know how long.  So many students were outside either tanning, playing catch, or just hanging out-- it literally felt like summer vacation.  The rude reality then hit us all later that it wasn't in fact summer vacation and that we had a lot of work to do before we could wrap up the school year but regardless, it was definitely a foreshadowing to summer vacation, which is so close, we can all taste it.

Grace House Silent Art Auction

Our wedding dress before...

Last night in the Cummings Art Gallery (an on-campus art gallery we have), I participated in the second annual Grace House Silent Art auction.  This was a really unique opportunity that was sponsored by the Communications department here at school.  Students purchased a donated wedding or prom dress and were given time to re-work it into a piece of art that would be auctioned off to benefit the Grace House, a program that helps women returning from military service to make a smooth transition into the Erie community.

There were a lot of cool things that people created.  My friend Elissa and I decided to make a mixed media piece on a canvas.  Some of the faculty members and students from the Fashion Merchandising department also decided to make a variety of pieces, which all fell into their "Real Housewives of Erie County" display which I thought was really unique.  People also made purses, dresses, and one of my personal favorites, a Cinderella chair!

... and after (the lace on the red dress is actual lace from the dress!)

This was the first year I participated in this event and I definitely will do it again next year.  Not only was it for a great cause, but it was also just a really fun event.  It's always nice to have the opportunity to mingle with students and faculty (especially in my case when it was a lot of my professors!) AND they had really good h'orderves!  All in all, I had a really great time and would encourage you all to take advantage of cool opportunities like this that may come up =)

Spring Fest! =)

Hi Everyone,

Every year, Mercyhurst Student Government and the Student Activities Council put on the much anticipated Spring Fest!  As an MSG Executive Board member, myself and the other MSG E-Board and SAC members had the pleasure of making this huge event happen on campus.  Needless to say, I wasn't expecting much sleep this weekend-- it was a lot of early mornings and late nights with non-stop running around, but what a memorable weekend!

What a weekend... but we did it! =)

We met Frankie Muniz!

On Friday, we had the Spring Fest concert; this year we had five bands-- The Romantic Era (a local band), Andy Grammar, You Hang Up, Parachute, and our big band, the Plain White T's came to perform in our athletic center.  Frankie Muniz is actually the drummer in the band You Hang Up, so it was pretty awesome that Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle was at our school!  The Plain White T's were also great-- we all got so excited to hear the radio hit "Hey There Delilah," and for them to be singing that song in our small school was really awesome.

My Future Roommate Kaleigh =)

On Saturday; we had a novelties, prizes, food, and other fun activities going on all afternoon.  This year's theme was Luau, so we also had Polynesian Dancers/Fire Throwers come perform.  We had a 27 foot inflatable rock climbing wall, an inflatable obstacle course, cotton candy, chocolate fondue, t-shirt tie dying, spin art frisbee making, and lei making, to name a few things!  We also had prizes that you could try to win; this year it was a 32" HDTV, a digital camera, or the "cash cube," which was when you tried grabbing money that was flying around in this cube.

Lookin' good Louie!

So that's this year's Spring Fest in a nutshell!  It's always in May right before finals (which start a week from this Monday, AHH!!!!) so it's a great way for everyone to get their minds off of school work temporarily to have some fun before we all prepare to study hard so we can start our summer.  It's hard to believe that in a week and a half, I will have officially completed half of my college career-- we're not kidding when we say that the college years fly by!

Here's to working hard and playing hard... 

After all, it's all about balance! =) 

Sarah

Forever Young, I Wanna Be Forever Young...

Hi Everyone!

Vacation time? Hardly. But we try!

Sorry for the brief blogging vacation!  I guess I'm trying to trick myself into thinking that I'm on vacation when in reality, that's hardly the case, haha oops. 

So on Friday night, in honor of the royal wedding, my roommate Chelsea and I, decided to have a belated Princess Party.  I had a fashion test Friday morning, so I didn't wake up and watch the wedding live (as much as I wanted to!), but it was worth the wait.  I wish you could have seen us, we were both on the couch with our tv trays set up, eating Panera Bread for dinner in our pajamas, while watching the Royal Wedding.  I told her how I wished someone was there to take a picture of us because it was truly college life at its finest =)

Relay for Life

On Saturday, Mercyhurst hosted the second annual Relay for Life, which is a great event for such a worthy cause.  My high school always had a Relay for Life so I'd been to the event before, but this year was the first year that I was actually on a team, so that was really cool!  A bunch of student government friends and I were on a team as well as some of the Student Activities Council kids, but a lot of my friends from outside of MSG were on teams too!

Three cheers for Presque Isle!

After I finished my shift at relay, some of my friends and I went to Presque Isle to play on the beach and procrastinate doing homework, err... enjoy the nice weather ;)

My friends and I constantly say how the one thing we've learned in college is how much of a little kid we all are, despite the fact that we're supposedly "adults."  Because let's be honest some things like Princess Parties and playing at the beach, you'll never grow out of!

Here's to another great week-- I have a job interview on Tuesday (I'm trying to find a job so I can stay on campus over the summer!) and then on Friday and Saturday, SPRING FEST!  Stay tuned for more fun college adventures!


Sarah