Finals Week Part II

Hi everyone!

It's Saturday and I am continuing to study for my finals. I have already taken four, so I have one more left on Monday. This means that my weekend will consist of studying and going to the gym for a study break. It's nice because the fitness centers change their hours to make sure that everyone who wants to go work out has the option. On the same wellness note, the library is open 24 hours a day-and people are always there. Last year, I pulled a near all-nighter at the library and the staff brought us coffee at around 2 am. Anyway- it's back to studying for me. Have a great winter vacation!!

Almost Finals

Hi everyone,

So finals are right around the corner...spooky! I've started to study for my few hard ones now. It's nice because I can have my friends over for study parties where we study and bake Holiday treats and drink Hot Chocolate. It's a good way to relax while studying. This Friday, we have Engineering Open House. This is when all the group projects are presented. There will be a freshman robot competition. (The freshman class built robots that battle for colored discs, it's way fun to watch.) Also, the super seniors are presenting their senior design projects. This is similar to a final thesis paper, but since they are engineers, they get to do a hands on project.

Well, it's time to get back to studying.

Ciao!

Things I'm thankful for

Hi friends-

so in lieu of the recent holiday, I wanted to create a photo collage of things that I am thankful for:

1. The weather: Check out the two 7 day forecasts...where would you rather be????

Sunny San Diego?

...or Chilly Chicago??

2. The Chargers: #1 in the AFC??? Heck YES!

3. The Spring Semester: I <3 Men's Club Baseball!!!! (easy on the eyes...and they are super nice as well)




So that's about it. As December rolls on in, I'm shocked to see that there are only two weeks of school remaining....then FINALS!!! {Insert Scary Music Here}

Well- that's about it.

Ciao!

Almost Vacation! Yay!

Hi friends-

So I'm just about to head up to Temecula to have lunch with my brother, but I wanted to blog about my "Friday-O-Fun."

It was the annual ISO (international student organization) dinner/dance. Even though I am a domestic student, everyone was invited to share some comradery and free food. Here are a couple pictures from the night.




As you can see, there was a ton of food and a ton of fun. USD usually has something cool going at least once a week. My friends and I always joke that there is always some group hosting an event that contains free food and fun.

In other news, the Torero Board was finalized this week, which means that we are all starting to plan Torero Days (Orientation). It is going to be off the hook, so be sure to finish up your USD application so you can join in all the fun that is USD and Torero Days.

Cheers!

Friday the 13th...oooooh

Hi friends-

So let me tell you about my amazing week.

This photo shows my friend JT. He is a senior on the men's soccer team. Last Sunday, he scored the winning goal against Gonzaga on Sunday. It was electric at Torero Stadium, especially since it was Senior Day.






Classes this week were fun. I received my midterm exam grades (not too shabby). On Tuesday, I went out with some friends to Fred's for Tacos. (On tuesday, the $8.00 tacos are only $2.00 so it's great for College Kids)

Wednesday night=COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS!!! GO TAYLOR SWIFT! (And Carrie's performance was amazing.) Good night indeed.

I hope that most of you came to our Fall Open House today. It was a ton of fun meeting some of you interested in Engineering.

Tonight is the Men's Basketball game, so I'm going with some of my friends to cheer on the Toreros to Victory!!!!!!! Ergo- I'm going to hit the gym before I head to the game.

Cheers!

Hi everyone!

So it's Thursday night and I'm studying for my Facilities Planning midterm (which is going to be pretty tough) but I wanted to take a break to blog and watch YouTube videos. So in this segment, I want to clear up any rumor that Engineers spend all their time studying. Below is a photo from last semester during "Engineers Night Out."

We all went to a Padres game together and hung out with our professors in a casual setting. At least once a semester, we all go to a ball game to relax. Also around Christmas, we have an annual White Elephant Engineering Get Together in Coronado. This is also a great way to end the Fall Semester.


On another note....GUESS WHAT???



Next Friday the 13th is Fall OPEN HOUSE! Y'all should come on down to USD and meet faculty, students, and tour the campus. This is a pretty unique aspect of USD. You go through an extended campus tour which includes a room visit with some of the Freshman resident students and then you go to lunch and meet faculty and students that are in the major you think you may want to pursue. (And Diego Torero may be there. He's kind of a big deal. Below is Diego riding a tricycle at one of our basketball games. Major Celeb!!

Anyway- guess it's time to go back and study. (Yay midterms week! LOL) See you all at Fall Open House on the 13th!

Senior Year Numero Uno

Hi y'all.

So it's my first of two senior years and I couldn't be more busy. (PS-I'm only on the 5 year because I'm double majoring and minoring. Most people get out in 4.) I'm working an internship at Hamilton Sundstrand in the Cost Reduction department, which has been taking up a lot of my time, but its an awesome job, so time flies by.

Anyway...last weekend was Fall Holiday/Parent's Weekend. This is the weekend where parents & friends come down to visit their student for the three day weekend. I ended up going to Disneyland with my two best friends, so it was a phenomenal weekend. When we got there Friday morning the park was nearly empty so we had a blast running from ride to ride. It's awesome living only an hour and a half away from Anaheim. I can get my hockey fix and my Disney fix.

I'm meeting with my adviser tomorrow to talk about registration for the Spring Semester. (That's right, it's already time to register for the next semester.) One of the huge perks of being an engineer is that I bank up enough credits to register before all of my friends.

With that, I'm off to do homework.

Ciao!

Almost Finals...

Hi everyone,

So it "dead day" today, which means that no one has class. Although this sounds awesome, it is because finals start on Friday, so we get that day and Thursday to study. I have one final on Friday, three on Monday, and my last one on Wednesday. But enough about Finals, I have a ton of cool stuff to share with you regarding Torero Days.

If you aren't quite sure what Torero Days is, it's our version of orientation, but super fun. The entire Torero Board has been planning some great surprise events. This week, there should be a new student tab on the MySandiego portal. Check it out and feel free to contact me through that. I will be here all summer with my engineering internship. I got a great condo right by campus and I'm pretty excited to live off campus as a senior. (But that doesn't mean that living on campus is boring- as a matter of fact, USD has some of the best residence halls ever! Ladies, if you live in Founders, your furniture was formerly owned by Hotel Del Coronado. But every place is awesome to live!)

One last thing that I'm pretty excited for: the FINALS FEEDING FRENZY! Every night before finals start, the Alumni Association gets a bunch of food for all USD students. And this is good food like Jamba Juice, Z Pizza, Chick-Fil-A, etc. I can't wait to go with a bunch of people for this!


Ciao!

This is the Student Life Pavilion. It's our newest building on campus. Each day they get closer to completing it. I can't wait because this means that we have more space for students. They are getting a bunch of new food places too! It's really exciting to have a bunch of new stuff for students to use.

As always- get excited about Torero Days! It's going to be epic!

Spring Break Part Deux

That's right, it's spring break again! (Technically it's just Easter Break with Thursday, Friday, and Monday classes canceled.) This means that I have time to start working on my projects. For my international organizations class, we are doing a project on a non-governmental organization (like the Red Cross). I am doing mine on Water for People which provides running water to communities that don't have it. Since USD has such a great reputation in the city, I have the opportunity to meet with the chairman and talk with him about the organization. He also invited me to their meeting where they discuss current and past projects.

Today I also have my interview with Sea World! Woot!

I'm applying to be a tour guide this summer, so I'll let y'all know if I get it, so you can come take a tour of Sea World during the summer. <3

As far as orientation goes-get excited for the first night social event. It's brand new this year and it will be EPIC!

Cheers!

Career Expo

Ciao!

Today was USD's Career Expo. This is where a bunch of companies come to USD to collect resumes and talk to students about current openings and internships. I talked to about ten companies I was interested in and have narrowed it down to about five that I want to pursue applying. (I am hoping to be able to stay in San Diego this summer, so finding a job is pretty important so I can pay rent.) Some of the companies are even conducting interviews on-campus, so I don't even have to drive.

USD has a fantastic career center. They can help you with your resume, cover letter, and even hold mock interviews with you. I highly recommend checking it out, even as a new student because they are so nice and will help you so much.

On the orientation front, I've been working hard planning the fun social event that is going to be held on the first night! It will be EPIC! Get excited for Torero Days!!! Woo!

March Madness!

Hi yall-

It's the first week back from Spring Break so I've been readjusting to the mornings and schoolwork. In my Six Sigma lab, we just did a statistical analysis to determine which team would win the NCAA tournament. I think that it is so awesome that we are doing fun things instead of boring paperwork.

My roommates and I are on the hunt for a condo so we can all live down in Sunny San Diego this summer. It's a lot harder than I thought, but I'm really excited that I made such great friends. USD does a great job picking roommates, even though it is completely random (for the most part). It's so funny how it always works out in the end.

This weekend the Torero Club Baseball team takes on Arizona State University. I'm super excited to go watch because one of the guys I went to high school with is a pitcher for ASU so I will get to see him after about four years. And of course I get to go to the game to watch my friends on USD's team.

As far as orientation is concerned, applications were due yesterday and I'm really excited to start interviewing everyone to find the best, most spirited students to be a part of T-Squad. Woo!

Get excited about USD, I heard that some people already got their acceptance letters! Congrats!

Two Weeks until Spring Break!!!!

Hi y'all!

So it's been a super busy mid-February for me! I've been putting in a bunch of time with Torero Board, where I am in charge of the Transportation Team and one of the many social events we have. I am also working with the RAs to plan another program during Torero Days. All the board members have been working really hard to hold informationals for current students who want to be a part of all the fun.

I was also chosen to be a co-chair for Greek Week Skit Night. This is the night when all of the sororities and fraternities make up a skit (with many dance numbers) that go with the theme for Greek Week. This year, the theme is Video Games (so it should be really fun)! Below, I put the link to the winning skit from last semester's Olympic theme (which happened to be my sorority with the men of Delta Tau Delta).



Pretty awesome video, right?

Anyway- Now I'm in charge of the entire night with one other woman, so it's been a bit stressful.

I'm also in the process of looking for summer internships so I can stay in San Diego this summer. USD has this really cool thing called ToreroLink which is a huge database of employers that want to hire USD students. Some even have on-campus interviews. I put a screen shot of the site below. There are literally about 100 jobs posted each week! It's crazy!



Well- That's it for me for now.

Cheers!

Week Three of Class

Hi everyone!

It's 12:00 on Tuesday, which means its dead hours. Dead hours are anything but dead! On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 to 2:30 no one has class, so it's a great time to catch up with friends you may otherwise not see. Also, most organizations schedule meetings during dead hours so everyone can attend. I'm about five minutes away from my Torero Board meeting (Woot!)
As far as class is concerned, my Industrial Engineering lab class is doing a project with Scripps Hospital. This means that instead of sitting in a room for three hours during lab time, we go to Scripps Hospital to apply what we learned in lecture to the real world. I don't know of any other university that has such a great reputation in the city where it will hire students to do projects for them. That's one of the best parts of USD-we get real life experience without having an internship. Well- I'm off to my meeting so check back for more USD fun!


Cheers!

February Fun!!!

Hi everyone! It's a gorgeous Monday in San Diego. I spent the entire weekend on the Orientation Board Retreat with the other students on Torero Board. We are already planning for next August when USD has Torero Days. Only first year students and transfer students are on campus so you get to know the campus and meet a TON of people before classes start.

Speaking of classes, I am on my second week of Spring Classes. Right now thery aren't too bad, I have hard classes, but the professors are fantastic. I have already had coffee with one of my professors just to catch up after break. I can't think of any other school where professors know your name and want to talk to you outside of class.

Well- that's about it so far-be looking for some more fun in the upcoming week.

Cheers!

The Beginning of Spring 2009

Hi y'all-

Today was Bid Day with my sorority! As a Sigma Rho Chi (recruitment counselor), I got to give out all of the Bid cards to the women in my small group. Every new member opened her bid at once and then we all went out to spend the rest of the day with our respective chapters. After super fun pictures (I put up the new pledge class below), we took all of our new members to get "fro yo" and then went to this place where we painted ceramic objects. (Art is not my specialty, but it was fun to try and be creative.) It was so great to have the one "last hurrah" before classes start tomorrow morning. I have an 8:00 am class, so I don't get to sleep in, but it's only because I'm an engineer. Since it's the first day, we should only be going over each syllabus, so class will be pretty short. This upcoming weekend I am going on retreat with Torero Board (AKA orientation team board) so we can start planning for next fall's first year student orientation. Woo!


Here's the new ADPi's! Aren't they awesome??



Cheers!

Sorority Recruitment!

Hi everyone!

I'm back at USD for sorority recruitment. This year, I am a Sigma Rho Chi, which means that I serve as a recruitment counselor and help the potential sorority women chose a chapter that is right for them. USD has six sororities on campus (see the photo) and they are all wonderful!

We had a speaker come in today to talk to us about recruitment. USD holds sorority recruitment four days before the spring semester starts. All interested women go to events for all six chapters, and then decide which chapters they prefer the most. I love this system because the women are exposed to all of Greek life and get a taste of all chapters before they choose one. Tomorrow, all of the Sigma Rho Chis are going on retreat to learn more about recruitment and bond with each other. I'm really excited to go on retreat with sorority women from every chapter to meet and bond with new people. After recruitment is over, I will write about it a little bit more.

Cheers!