Sophomore Year Photo Recap

Hi Everyone!

I apologize that I haven't posted in quite some time-- I've been thoroughly enjoying my summer vacation and took a little blogging vacation!  However, I've been meaning to do a photo recap (thanks for the idea Lindsay!) so that we can all have a way to remember how much fun my year was =)

September-  Let the school year begin!  September began with a roomie dinner after finally getting somewhat situated and settled in our first apartment and later on in the month, there was Hurst Fest, which is also Homecoming and Alumni Weekend here at the 'Hurst.  Every year, I'm always amazed at how fast September flies, it's probably one of the best months of the school year =)

October- This month was filled with making lots of new friends: I have a picture of everyone from the 2010-2011 Mercyhurst Student Government, which, much to my surprise, became a big part of my sophomore year, a 21st birthday party for a fellow blogger Lindsay, who I became very good friends with as well as her other roommates (who are now going to be my junior year roomies!) and then of course, not forgetting old friends-- pictured is my friend Laura and I, who I met Halloween freshman year; here we are Halloween sophomore year! 

November- Oh, November!  Unfortunately, I don't have too many pictures from November because it's kind of a slower month with the end of the term wrapping up, studying, finals, and then Thanksgiving Break. HOWEVER, my friends and I did randomly go out to Applebees one night for a going away dinner and we got a little distracted in the parkinglot and decided to take pictures...

December- What. a. crazy. month.  Looking back at my December pictures, I came across lots and lots of ugly sweaters.  I remember having three ugly sweater parties to go to, and being a fashion merchandising major, I can't have an ugly sweater outfit repeat ;)  In addition to ugly sweaters, I also managed to break out the bikinis since I spent part of Christmas break visiting my roommate Kylie in Florida.

January- January was such a great month-- I got to celebrate my birthday with some of my best friends, a couple of us spontaneously decided to compete in a pizza making competition, and my roommates and I went to hockey games to cheer our friend Dave on.  Don't let anyone fool you about the snow prohibiting you from having fun, there's plenty of ways to have fun, you just need to get a little creative!

 

February- The only picture I have from February is of this brownie cake that I made my friend Jeremy for his birthday, which is on Valentines Day.  In February, my friends and I also threw him a surprise birthday party, which was really fun because he was completely shocked!  Winter term was coming to an end and I worked all February Break (but caught a shoplifter, which was pretty cool!).

 March- So not gonna lie, in high school March was by far my least favorite month-- it was still snowy, the month just dragged, and school always seemed especially boring.  But not in college!  I always look forward to March because every year it seems to be 31 days of a jam-packed planner-- I'm pretty sure I only had one or two completely commitment free days all month!  I had end of the year banquets for the Ambassador's Club (Spring Tea) and Student Government (we went to this hibachi restaurant, yum!), and in my limited spare time, I filled it doing fun things with my friends!  One night, my friends and I went to a local, Middle Eastern restaurant where we sat around a circular table and ate on the floor with cushions, how cool.

April- Now that the weather finally started to get nice, my friends and I thoroughly enjoyed it by participating in such events like the annual MSG Spring Charity Ball and the second annual Relay for Life on campus.  We even squeezed in a trip to Presque Isle because it was so nice out-- we tend to use the nice weather as an excuse for not doing homework ;) Somehow, the work always manages to get done though!

May- Probably my craziest month of the entire school year.  As a newly elected E-Board member of MSG, one of my first orders of business was to help run Spring Fest, which consisted of 48 hours of early mornings and late, late nights, but luckily with the company of the new MSG and SAC boards.  In addition to the Spring Fest madness, there was also the whole getting excited for summer vacation (because I just got hired at Charming Charlie in Erie, which meant I could spend the summer on campus with friends, yay!) and trying to focus and study for final exams.  Luckily, my friends and I managed to have a great last few weeks before the school year ended and we continued to make some great memories-- going to Meg's house, spontaneous photo taking "so that we don't forget a single moment in college" (haha thanks Lindsay!), and "the boy's" end of the year classy get together/graduation farewell.

Wow, what a year; it's crazy to think that I'm halfway through with college!  But to end on a great note after a great year-- here's to an AMAZING summer (I'm already a few weeks in, and it's been great so far).  I'll definitely try to post about my summer in Erie, but I don't know how frequently it will be... but keep your eyes out for more great pictures and stories about my life as a laker =)