The Death of Me! (But I'm still alive)

Last week, my entire week was taken up by Corporate Finance. I had an exam on Friday and every waking hour that wasn't spent in meetings, or class, or work was spent in my finance text book.

I am happy to report that I got an A- on my Exam! Happy day! What can I say... Finance isn't exactly my cup of tea. I have to work really hard for good grades in that class and an A- represents hours of tireless studying, lots of hot chocolate drinking from the cafe in the library, and lots of studying with groups of friends. 

My Chick-Fil-A sandwich was a heart

I was able to take a little break to go to College Night with some friends at Chick-Fil-A. They have buy one #1 combo meal and get another for free on Tuesday Nights! Sometimes I buy 2 meals for myself (because it is really for the price of 1) and sometimes I share my other meal with a friend. This time I took a picture of my sandwich because it was showin' me some love! You can see for yourself why.

The cool kids call it Po-Bev

Tons of students watching the performances

Once a month, ASUSU has an event called Poetry and a Beverage. We all call it Po-Bev for short. This weekend was the November Po-Bev and it was a blast! There were hundreds of people there and there were some really cool performances. Po-Bev is basically an open mic night. Anybody can sign up to perform and you can do anything you want. Most people will play a musical instrument or sing a karaoke song, some people recite poetry from their favorite author and others recite poetry that they’ve written.

Every month the beverage is something different. This time it was milk and cookies. It was really fun to hang out with some friends, watch some friends share their talents, and to eat some milk and cookies.

Chillin' at Po-Bev

Career Exploration

Center for Economic Development Conference Room

This past week I had an AWESOME opportunity! The School of Business has a program that allows students to explore different career options. We drove down to Salt Lake super early in the morning and had appointments all day long. One of my favorite companies that we visited was a non-profit organization called Center for Economic Development. This company was located on one of the top floors in a tall building. We met in their conference room where you could see the entire Salt Lake Valley out of these HUGE windows.



The Capital Building

Some of our other visits included an investor, the Governor’s office, some political campaign consultants and the Chamber of Commerce. It was such a rich experience. I learned so much! It was great to be able to take a day to think about my future. Because of that day, I have spent some time rethinking some of my goals. Being a student is the best part of my life so far! The options are endless and every day, new opportunities present themselves! Utah State has opened so many doors for me. I can't wait to see what’s in store for me these next few days and months!

The Governer's Office

Texas Roadhouse Group Project

Little girl painting a pumpkin

This semester I am taking a management class that teaches us how to manage organizations and people. For this class we are put into groups and we have to plan and carry out an event that raises money for a non profit organization. My group decided to team up with Texas Roadhouse, a restaurant here in Logan. Texas Roadhouse donated 10% of sales to our non profit organization. We planned some fun Halloween activities to go on in the parking lot of Texas Roadhouse to bring people to the restuarant. We had a Trunk or Treat, and we had Pumpkin Painting. Lots of little kids had a lot of fun getting candy from the trunks of cars and painting pumpkings in AGGIE colors.

Trunk or Treat Car
 

The Narrows!

This past week was Fall break! With the extra day without classes I went with a few friends down to the Zions Narrows in Southern Utah. We hiked from the top of the narrows all the way to the bottom for a total of 16 MILES! This hike wasn't just a normal hike either, it was through a river for the most part. We woke up at 4:30 and began hiking in the dark with frost on the ground and our frozen breath in the air. The first time that we had to cross a river, it was fridged! After crossing the river for the hundreth time, there was not more feeling in my feet which was actually a good thing because my legs were getting soar!

It was so early, I couldn't help but yawn

Sitting on a log! a good break from the river.

Despite all of the crazy hard things that we put ourselves through, it was all  worth it! I would do it again if I ever get the chance. That canyon was BEAUTIFUL! The walls were so narrow and so tall and the leaves were amazing bright fall colors. This midsemester break came just at the perfect time. LIFE IS GOOD!

Open Houses

This week I had the opportunity to go to the Utah State Davis County Open House. We have these open houses all over the state and in several other states too. I have always had a blast going to these open houses. It is so fun to talk to high school students who are thinking about Utah State. I was in charge of getting people to join the Facebook group. You all should join the group right now! It's called "USU incoming class 2013"

Utah State ROCKS! You'll never hear anything different. and if you come to one of our open houses, you can take a picture with Big Blue too.

See y'all up here soon!

Steve

Alien Babies and Chinese Takeout

my home remidy collection

  Well, This week has definitely been a little bit of a change of pace. I have begun to pass a couple of kidney stones and so I have spent a lot of time in my house taking pain killers and trying to sleep. Let me tell you, kidney stones are PAINFUL little suckers! I call them little alien babies because it feels like I have a little aliens crawling around inside of me. At one point I looked up online some home remedies to take care of these things and I went to the store and bought everything that could possibly help.
I missed a lot of class, but all of my professors are very understanding.

my Chinese takeout with football in the background

On Friday night, we had a football game being played at BYU in Provo. Provo is about 2 hours South of here. All of my friends headed down to that game. I couldn't go because I was in so much pain. I ordered some Chinese food for delivery and watched the game on ESPN all by myself. Fortunately I was able to talk to my friends during the game through texting and twitter.

The little alien babies haven't passed quite yet, I can't wait until they do! that will be a relief!