Hey guys! I got curious to see if my blog was still on ASU's page and IT IS. So sorry for the complete lack of posts, didn't realize you guys could still get to this!
My first semester has been crazy. I've changed my major, decided to move off-campus after my third semester living in a dorm, and have started my very own soccer website with my friends. So, loves of exciting stuff going on.
Incoming freshman: on-campus life is awesome. Just read my blog posts from last year and you'll know. And if you have a similar experience like I did your first year, I would recommend living on campus another year. But something just turned off this semester and that was my desire for my own space once again. Regardless of how good of pals I am with my roomie, I still am embarrassed to break out some of my books that I would like to read. I can't really listen to a lot of the music I like without using headphones, and on nights like tonight when I'm up kind of late, I'm pretty much limited to the Discovery Channel turned on low and typing away. I just want to have my own space where I can do what I want, when I want. Luckily, my parents live 15 minutes away, so I'm just moving home and I end up saving a bunch of money too.
We've had some bad winter weather this past week, ever since Friday I guess. We got about 6" of snow on the ground, haven't really gotten above freezing in 5 or so days and we're looking at some wintry mix this weekend. Yayyy!! I'll post some pics...if I think about it :P
Hope you guys are warm wherever you are! Have a great Christmas season!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Relay for Life 2010
Hey guys, it's been a while. It awesome to meet several of my followers at Open House this past weekend (big shoutout to Grant C.!). Hope you guys made it back safe and got to experience a little bit of the App that I've come to know and love.
One of biggest things I love about ASU is it's students and their readiness to help out when they can. This past Friday night, ASU hosted a Relay For Life at Duck Pond Field. We were out there from 6PM to 6AM. I personally with several of my friends walked from 10-12. They had inflatables, music, they showed The Lion King, free Monster...aka it was awesome. It was great time to hang out with friends while doing something to benefit the community and the fight against cancer.
If philanthropy gets your gears turning, ASU has got to be on your list of colleges to attend. From cancer, to world hunger, to teen depression and suicide, to global awareness, App students are involved in at all.
Hope you guys have an awesome last couple of weeks in school. For you juniors, get out to some colleges and took a look around before all the students leave; nothings worse than going for a college visit while there's no one around. Seniors: be sure you're keeping up with your checklist on First Connections! Come up to ASU for a weekend visit if you know someone up here. Check you email several times a day. And get ready to have a blast when you get up here!
One of biggest things I love about ASU is it's students and their readiness to help out when they can. This past Friday night, ASU hosted a Relay For Life at Duck Pond Field. We were out there from 6PM to 6AM. I personally with several of my friends walked from 10-12. They had inflatables, music, they showed The Lion King, free Monster...aka it was awesome. It was great time to hang out with friends while doing something to benefit the community and the fight against cancer.
If philanthropy gets your gears turning, ASU has got to be on your list of colleges to attend. From cancer, to world hunger, to teen depression and suicide, to global awareness, App students are involved in at all.
Hope you guys have an awesome last couple of weeks in school. For you juniors, get out to some colleges and took a look around before all the students leave; nothings worse than going for a college visit while there's no one around. Seniors: be sure you're keeping up with your checklist on First Connections! Come up to ASU for a weekend visit if you know someone up here. Check you email several times a day. And get ready to have a blast when you get up here!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
It's Hot!/No Shoes
Whew. It's hot here guys. HOT. Boone's broken a couple of records for high temperature the past week or so. Sunday, the high was 82. Holy cow guys. That just doesn't happen in Boone 98% of the time. It's April! If anything we could have snow (not that I'm encouraging it, but the saying here is "Snow 'til Mother's Day, so don't plant anything"), not 80+ degree weather! And we're loving it! Hanging out on the mall, playing outside, its GREAT. It's raining tonight and tomorrow, but it's clear skies after that! Already made plans to play Quidditch on Saturday (don't know about Collegiate Quidditch? Check out their website: www.collegequidditch.com).
Today is TOMS Shoes One Day Without Shoes Campaign 2010. Across the nation (maybe the world) people are voluntarily not wearing shoes to raise awareness of people in developing and 3rd world countries don't have shoes to wear and end up with very preventable diseases. One thing I do have to say about App students: we are a big fan of doing stuff like this. Not the "not wearing shoes" thing, but awareness campaigns for organizations like TOMS, Invisible Children, To Write Love On Her Arms.
Today is TOMS Shoes One Day Without Shoes Campaign 2010. Across the nation (maybe the world) people are voluntarily not wearing shoes to raise awareness of people in developing and 3rd world countries don't have shoes to wear and end up with very preventable diseases. One thing I do have to say about App students: we are a big fan of doing stuff like this. Not the "not wearing shoes" thing, but awareness campaigns for organizations like TOMS, Invisible Children, To Write Love On Her Arms.
Friday, March 26, 2010
SGA Elections, TrogdonMeisner Oh-Ten!
Hey all!
ASU held their SGA Pres/VP elections this past week where we had three candidate pairs running, including a new friend and my candidates, Ronnie Trogdon and Emily Meisner. I had the superb pleasure of talking with Ronnie last night and got to ask him some questions that I think really just emphasized the fact that I had chosen the correct candidate.
Ronnie is a seriously cool guy who was quite frank with me and my friends about whats important to him. He also took the time to ask us what was important to us, to make sure he could better represent us as Appalachian students.
I was seriously both surprised and impressed with the campaign put on by Ronnie and Emily. If you checked out their website, you can see that its pretty legit. I know US Congresspersons with crappier websites for the re-election. You can tell that Ronnie and Emily care about what their doing and they know that a good image is a big part of making their platform well liked.
Historically, because the candidates must when a majority and not a plurality of votes, there will be a run-off next week between the top two candidates and hopefully Ronnie and Emily will be in the run-off. I'll keep you guys updated on what throws down.
ASU held their SGA Pres/VP elections this past week where we had three candidate pairs running, including a new friend and my candidates, Ronnie Trogdon and Emily Meisner. I had the superb pleasure of talking with Ronnie last night and got to ask him some questions that I think really just emphasized the fact that I had chosen the correct candidate.
Ronnie is a seriously cool guy who was quite frank with me and my friends about whats important to him. He also took the time to ask us what was important to us, to make sure he could better represent us as Appalachian students.
I was seriously both surprised and impressed with the campaign put on by Ronnie and Emily. If you checked out their website, you can see that its pretty legit. I know US Congresspersons with crappier websites for the re-election. You can tell that Ronnie and Emily care about what their doing and they know that a good image is a big part of making their platform well liked.
Historically, because the candidates must when a majority and not a plurality of votes, there will be a run-off next week between the top two candidates and hopefully Ronnie and Emily will be in the run-off. I'll keep you guys updated on what throws down.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Grow up already...
Hey guys! It sure has been a while right? I'd like to think that I've made it a bit easier to keep up with my goings-on by linking my Twitter to my page, hopefully you'll enjoy that. I don't update it as often as famous people, but I'll update it at least once a day, if not twice or more.
The title of this blog might sound a little mean, but once I explain myself I think it'll become apparent that it's warranted.
I was at the ASU basketball game last night where we were playing Harvard in the first round of the College Insider Tournament. Me and my friends were sitting in the front row across the court from the ASU bench, so pretty rockin' seats. The game begins however and the teams take the court, and as we look over the opposition we see that Harvard's point guard, Jeremy Lin, was of Asian decent. While I was surprised to see someone of Asian decent just because there really isn't that many Asian basketball players as far as I knew, I was happy that there was an Asian player on the court. The guys behind us though (that I really hope were intoxicated, at least it would partially excuse their behavior) saw it as an opportunity to be (insert expletive of your choosing). They continuously yelled out an offensive term for Asians whenever he got the ball or came close to our side of the court, even after my friend Janie told them off and asked them to stop. Near the end of the game, we were up by 20 points and we brought in our last string of players (who are all white). One of the guys behind us that had been super annoying the whole game yells out "white power" and we all looked at him. "I'm talking about the jerseys, god guys you think I'm racist?" Yeah, I think you are, considering you just yelled out "white power" in public and you've been screaming racial slurs and profanity the entire game. I wanted sooo bad just to turn around and punch him in the face, but I didn't was to even respect him that much.
Why can't college students grow up? It was a 7pm game, a bit early to go get drunk, even on St. Patty's Day. Regardless of whether or not your drunk, you shouldn't yelling out racial slurs at a basketball game, especially if the people around you hate you. I'm a huge basketball fan and I understand getting carried away and even a bit of heckling now and then. But I think what this guy did was horrendous, unacceptable, and I wish he could be punished in some way.
To future ASU students: don't let this deter you from coming to App. Unfortunately, there's people like this at almost every college. With 16,000 students, there's bound to be some buttholes in there. But when you do come, try to have some common sense as to what is socially acceptable behavior in public and at sporting events.
That being said, Go Mountaineers!!
PS - Good luck to all prospective NC Teaching Fellows! You guys should be getting your letters this weekend.
The title of this blog might sound a little mean, but once I explain myself I think it'll become apparent that it's warranted.
I was at the ASU basketball game last night where we were playing Harvard in the first round of the College Insider Tournament. Me and my friends were sitting in the front row across the court from the ASU bench, so pretty rockin' seats. The game begins however and the teams take the court, and as we look over the opposition we see that Harvard's point guard, Jeremy Lin, was of Asian decent. While I was surprised to see someone of Asian decent just because there really isn't that many Asian basketball players as far as I knew, I was happy that there was an Asian player on the court. The guys behind us though (that I really hope were intoxicated, at least it would partially excuse their behavior) saw it as an opportunity to be (insert expletive of your choosing). They continuously yelled out an offensive term for Asians whenever he got the ball or came close to our side of the court, even after my friend Janie told them off and asked them to stop. Near the end of the game, we were up by 20 points and we brought in our last string of players (who are all white). One of the guys behind us that had been super annoying the whole game yells out "white power" and we all looked at him. "I'm talking about the jerseys, god guys you think I'm racist?" Yeah, I think you are, considering you just yelled out "white power" in public and you've been screaming racial slurs and profanity the entire game. I wanted sooo bad just to turn around and punch him in the face, but I didn't was to even respect him that much.
Why can't college students grow up? It was a 7pm game, a bit early to go get drunk, even on St. Patty's Day. Regardless of whether or not your drunk, you shouldn't yelling out racial slurs at a basketball game, especially if the people around you hate you. I'm a huge basketball fan and I understand getting carried away and even a bit of heckling now and then. But I think what this guy did was horrendous, unacceptable, and I wish he could be punished in some way.
To future ASU students: don't let this deter you from coming to App. Unfortunately, there's people like this at almost every college. With 16,000 students, there's bound to be some buttholes in there. But when you do come, try to have some common sense as to what is socially acceptable behavior in public and at sporting events.
That being said, Go Mountaineers!!
PS - Good luck to all prospective NC Teaching Fellows! You guys should be getting your letters this weekend.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Disney?
Yeah, that's right. Disney. I'm actually at Disney World right now with my family. I can't talk long, but I wanted to let you know that I'm tweeting our vacation pretty frequently at www.twitter.com/zach_mfm. Check it out! I'll post more once I get home.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Snow = Ridiculous
As many of you know, I've lived in Boone for going on 15 years now. That being said, this winter is throwing even me for a loop. We have had SOOO much snow this winter and we're only maybe a little past halfway through the season. Tomorrow, we're supposed to have a blizzard. Like, legitimate blizzard (this report is according to Rays Weather). I predict App not having classes tomorrow (my money is on professors canceling their own morning classes and the university canceling later classes), with a great possibilty for no classes on Thursday; that just depends on how much we get and how hard the campus staff works to get it all off the walkways and roads.
I don't really mind the snow. I'll always love a day with no classes. I love being able to not leave my dorm, stay in my tshirt and shorts and just chill out the whole day. In college, we don't have to make up and days that we miss, each individual professor must adjust their own schedule, so it really doesn't affect me all that much.
In short, be sure you don't mind a little snow on the ground when you're walking to and from class. To be honest, temperature wise it hasn't been all that cold, especially compared to last year, so it hasn't been that bad.
Go App!!
I don't really mind the snow. I'll always love a day with no classes. I love being able to not leave my dorm, stay in my tshirt and shorts and just chill out the whole day. In college, we don't have to make up and days that we miss, each individual professor must adjust their own schedule, so it really doesn't affect me all that much.
In short, be sure you don't mind a little snow on the ground when you're walking to and from class. To be honest, temperature wise it hasn't been all that cold, especially compared to last year, so it hasn't been that bad.
Go App!!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
First Day of Classes (what what?!)
And so begins a new semester! This morning me and my roommate woke up at 8am to get to our Political Science class at 9. It was rough to say the least. Plus, neither one of us got to bed until 3:30 this morning due to an epic 6-hour battle of Risk. If you don't know what Risk is, you're missing out. Probably the best board(ish) game ever. Six guys, six hours, 2 six packs of Yoohoo (a must in my opinion), but only one victor. I might not have won this battle, but the war shall be mine!!
ANYWAY...back to classes. After my 9 o'clock class got out after 20 minutes (first day of classes are often like that), I got a quick breakfast at Central then went to my first and only math class, College Algebra. I really don't think its going to be bad at all. It's taught by a last semester Grad student, but she seems nice and the material doesn't seem hard at all. That class got early too, so with the 1.5 hour break I had, I made the short hike from the math building back up the LLC (my dorm) to relax in the warmth of my room. I have a World Geography class at 12, but I'm going to take as much time as I want to relax. I'm also probably going to take a nap after that class too.
Well, I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on how the semester progresses! Good luck on your potentially last semester of high school!
ANYWAY...back to classes. After my 9 o'clock class got out after 20 minutes (first day of classes are often like that), I got a quick breakfast at Central then went to my first and only math class, College Algebra. I really don't think its going to be bad at all. It's taught by a last semester Grad student, but she seems nice and the material doesn't seem hard at all. That class got early too, so with the 1.5 hour break I had, I made the short hike from the math building back up the LLC (my dorm) to relax in the warmth of my room. I have a World Geography class at 12, but I'm going to take as much time as I want to relax. I'm also probably going to take a nap after that class too.
Well, I'll be sure to keep you guys updated on how the semester progresses! Good luck on your potentially last semester of high school!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Packing and Returning
What is up readers? I hope you guys had a good Christmas Break, celebrating whatever holiday you and your family enjoys having a good time with.
I've just put the finishing touches on all my stuff to move back into the dorm. Me and brother will be leaving shortly to take my stuff back! It's such a weird feeling going back, but I'm sooo looking forward to it. To my surprise, I've absolutely loved being home. I've had the chance to hang out with old friends, work (aka make moneys!), see family I haven't seen in 7 months, and sleep! Unfortunately, due to a doctors visit I had earlier this week, I discovered I've gained 10 lbs since August!! Booooooooo. Of course, I'm going to blame this on the huge amount of food I've eaten this break the inability to do anything active since August due to several different health problems. But I had three different doctor appts this past week and I hope that I'll be 100% in about 2 weeks. Once I'm healthy, I'm really looking forward to playing some Intermural Quidditch (if you've never heard of, do a Youtube search for Intercollegiate Quidditch. It's awesome) and some indoor soccer.
Packing up and leaving home is tough because I've loved spending time with family and just to myself which is hard to come by in dorm life. But I'm really looking forward to the next semester and all the new classes I get to take. Keep in touch guys! God Bless.
I've just put the finishing touches on all my stuff to move back into the dorm. Me and brother will be leaving shortly to take my stuff back! It's such a weird feeling going back, but I'm sooo looking forward to it. To my surprise, I've absolutely loved being home. I've had the chance to hang out with old friends, work (aka make moneys!), see family I haven't seen in 7 months, and sleep! Unfortunately, due to a doctors visit I had earlier this week, I discovered I've gained 10 lbs since August!! Booooooooo. Of course, I'm going to blame this on the huge amount of food I've eaten this break the inability to do anything active since August due to several different health problems. But I had three different doctor appts this past week and I hope that I'll be 100% in about 2 weeks. Once I'm healthy, I'm really looking forward to playing some Intermural Quidditch (if you've never heard of, do a Youtube search for Intercollegiate Quidditch. It's awesome) and some indoor soccer.
Packing up and leaving home is tough because I've loved spending time with family and just to myself which is hard to come by in dorm life. But I'm really looking forward to the next semester and all the new classes I get to take. Keep in touch guys! God Bless.
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