Homecoming - A Tiring Week

Picture of the Day] I did archery and went down into the BOG to hear a performance by Mike Droho

Mood] Wearing Thin

Weather] Overcast with a high of 59

Currently] In the Ambassador Cube

Quote of the day: Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I was thinking the quote by Robert Frost pretty much sums up what I have to remind myself while I'm in school. Sometimes I get so absolutely bogged down and tired that I forget why I'm doing this whole education thing. I get so frustrated sometimes staring at the same thing for five hours (no joke), but when I do figure something out, it's an incredibly relieving feeling. I usually watch movies to make me feel better anyway. Hee hee. I watched Boondock Saints the other day again. Awesome movie. I hope that the rest of this week goes well.

The happenings? Lots of awesome stuff! Let me say before I forget now, 2 more days until the Olympic Bid is up! :D We'll know soon whether or not Chicago will be hosting and whether or not IIT will be Olympic Campus AWESOME. It might also mean that we're going to have jobs out of college! Hooray!

Tuesday I totally went and played archery. AMAZING. I love it so much. It was fun. I ended up scoring some for Team SWE, or the Society for Women Engineers. Yeah, I know. I'm not an engineer, but I still love them and they love me. Hee hee. I couldn't make it to Capture the Flag or the actual Homecoming parade, but I did go to the Club Night on Friday for a little bit after our Acapotluck! We had all acappella groups get together for a potluck and just chilled out. It was fun. The Club Night was also fun! The weather was nice and cool so under the tent with everyone dancing it was pretty comfortable. There were free glowsticks and blinky pins, not to mention dessert foods! I thought it turned out really well.

Then on Saturady we had the Homecoming Carnival and it was SWAMPED. People were going nuts over the food and stuff (I heard the line was an hour or something!) so it must've been good. There were TONS of blow-up rides along with games and photo booths. Free Homecoming shirts and Alumni gear were scattered all over. I got two T-shirts! There was a dog-tag making stand and I kinda wanted one, but I didn't want to have to wait. Instead I went down to the BOG and listened to Mike Droho and his band play. There was a violinist, a beat boxer, and himself on acoustic. It was pretty intimate. He even gave out free CDs! I took some pictures with Alicia's camera.

Took my Structural Steel Design Analysis test yesterday. YEAH....I wonder how I did. It was okay, I think, but there was one problem I just totally did NOT know how to answer. Tomorrow I have my Mechanical and Electrical test. Everyone is worried about that because there is so much material to go over and the calculations are a bit complicated. @.@ I hope that I do well on that. I have been doing okay on the online quizzes through Blackboard.

OH! The super exciting thing is that my Japanese Host Family will be coming in on Friday. Here's the scene. During the summer of my Sophomore year in high school I went on a 2.5 week exchange program to Asahikawa, (in Hokkaido = northern most island) Japan. There I stayed with a host family consisting of a mom, dad, older brother (by one year) and older sister (by two years). It was by far one of my favourite experiences. I hope to study aboard in the future again. Anyway, they are coming in this Friday at around 3:00 pm! Since it's such an important event (I haven't seen them for what, five? six years?) I will be skipping Studio on Friday to go. I usually NEVER skip class and it makes me feel terrible to just be late even sometimes, but this is something that I know is worth it. I'll take pictures and probably be bawling, so I'll post them later. Ha ha ha ha.


Well that's what I've got going for me this week!
~Jaye

Homecoming Week Coming!

Picture of the Day] These guys were hanging out on campus. SO CUTE!

Mood] Tiiiiireeeedddd

Weather] Partly Cloudy with a high of 74

Currently] In the Ambassador Cube

Quote of the day: I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

The quote today is in honour of H.G. Well's. I think it's pretty motivational. :) Right now it's rather dreary outside. It looks like it's going to rain, but the weather channel said that it would get sunnier later in the day with only 10% precipitation, so we'll see if Chicago agrees.

This weekend was SO lazy. I really wanted to be able to get all my homework done, but it was too difficult for me to understand. I think that my Steel Structural class and Mechanical and Electrical class have calculations and concepts that I need to review again. X.x I tried to make myself feel better by watching Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightely edition) for the 54 bajillionth time. It helped. The homework isn't even due today, but I just like to get it done. Sunday acappella practice rocked! Wh00t to the girls group! :D

I'm super excited for Homecoming! Here are the events:

Tuesday 9/22: BBQ (5 pm. Location: Baseball field)
Archery (5 pm-7 pm. Location: Baseball field)
Womens Volleyball (Scarlet fever event 7pm. Location: Keating)

Thursday 9/24: Capture the Flag with Water Balloons (5 pm-630 pm. Location: Morton Park)

Friday 9/25: Club Night/Homecoming Dance (9pm-12am. Location: MSV Lawn)

Saturday 9/26: Women's Soccer game (12pm. Location: Soccer Field)
Men's Soccer game (2 pm-4 pm. Location: Soccer Field)
Float Competition (After Men's Soccer game, Floats will lead the crowd to the carnival)
Homecoming carnival (4 pm-9 pm. Location: Quad)

I really really want to try the Archery, but I don't get off of class until 6:15, so I'll have to rush over and see if there's anything still! :D The dance is going to be fun too. I hope that I'll have enough time to do all my homework and study during this week.

It's gonna be crazy!
~Jaye

Saturday and Sunday

Picture of the Day] These are some pictures from the fieldtrip! I decided to upload multiple!

Mood] Hungry

Weather] Sunny with a high of 81

Currently] Ambassador Cube with Olivia and Muyiwa

Quote of the Day] History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Short short short entry today!

Soooooo first Saturday of work was super cool! I participated in a Saturday Visit Day, so we had a couple families come in from different parts of Chicago and other towns to talk about what goes on at IIT and also do tours! I co-toured both the tours and I have to say, my legs are PRETTY sore. I think this job is going to have me working out a lot more! I met very nice people at the visit and I hope that I did a good job explaining everything in terms of what IIT can offer and what it is like to be a student here.

Sunday was pretty awesome as well. We had our first full acappella meeting for girls group and co-ed (respectively the X-Chromotones and the Techtonics). I was excited about being able to pick up some new music! I'm going to keep it a secret for now, but expect awesome rockage coming up super soon!

Today I will be going on a fieldtrip for studio! We're going up to Lincoln Park to talk to our prospective "client" for our fall semester project, which is design a boat house. It will be interesting to learn exactly what is to be expected. I have some questions in mind, but not all. I better think of some! I also hope that my camera batteries don't die, considering I've been running on the low blinky red half battery icon for about two months. Yeahhhhh...we'll see how that goes! It should be a great day, provided it doesn't get too hot while I'm there. :P

Well, be back later with photos to add!
~Jaye

The First of Many Performances to Come!

Picture of the Day] I took this picture at Millenium Park this summer. It's part of an installation! A prize for whoever can name the architect(s) who did it! :D

Mood] Optimistic

Weather] Sunny with a high of 78

Currently] In the Ambassador Cube

Quote of the day: Didja ever gets the feelin' that you was bein' watched?

So since this is the first blog of hopefully many, I feel the need to introduce myself to all those who may be reading this before I really settle myself in. I am a third year architecture major. I enjoy food, singing, writing, reading, drawing and video gaming. I like candlelit dinners and moonlit walks on the beach. I am a Libra and like flowers.

Now that I've advertised myself, onto what today was like, which is, of course, the point of this blog! Woke up around seven feeling CRAZY nervous about getting certified to give tours as a student ambassador of our lovely undergraduate admissions. There was so much information to study and even though I had been reviewing the information for a couple weeks, I still felt a little nauseous as I walked to Perlstein. I managed to get a glance over my nifty info binder before starting the tour with Pablo at 9:30ish AM. (Thus, the quote of the day). The weather was great, I know I stammered some, but things went well. So aside from my awesome shiny new badge (not gonna lie, one of THE best parts of the job), I can officially give tours to any visitting families. >.> Which is a good thing since I work my first Saturday visit tomorrow and there are at least five or six families signed up to come! There will be tour giving and a presentation. I hope I do well!

Awesome thing today: Sushi Friday in the Commons. I was SOOOOO excited. I am a huge fan! I enjoy Japanese food a LOT so being able to try sushi there was great! It wasn't too bad at all, compared to the 7-11 version, which I would advise NOT to eat unless you are REALLY terribly craving explosive diarrhea. The parfaits there are really good though...Definitely an acceptable late night snack!

Well off to do homework! I've got a huge lineup this weekend: Saturday visit, homework, having dinner with friends on Saturday night, more homework!

P.S. I am obsessed with movies, so I apologize in advance for any and all randomly quoted material that appears in my writing from time to time. In real life, I talk in puns and movie quotes...

See you on the flipside! (...like that)
~Jaye