This is a post from my google blog.
Hey everyone,
I s'pose this is a strange time to be blogging considering I was just home, but I realized how behind I am...
Firstly, Parents' Weekend was soooo nice. The fall stretch of school is so long and it's nice to be able to break it up with a visit from the familiar. My parents even let me sleep in the comfortable bed at the hotel! Ah, a good night's sleep... We were super busy and the weekend wasn't long enough. We went to some great restaurants, went to meet the sorority girls, met with the Stiles Master, and went to one of my sister's improv comedy shows. It was a really busy weekend. We also went to go see Flags of Our Fathers which was intense but really good.
The next weekend, Stiles had a busy schedule. Friday night was a crazy Girl Talk concert. Girl Talk is an amazing DJ and if you haven't heard of him, you should check him out. He's a biomedical engineer by day and DJ by night... amazing concert! I was dancing on stage it was so good! Saturday night was Casino Night, rated in the top college parties by Rolling Stone. It was an amazing transformation from Dining Hall, to Concert Venue, to Casino! Everyone got all dressed up and was given chips at the door to gamble with. You could enter raffles with the "money" you made. I was working, so I didn't actually gamble at all, not that i would know how to anyway... It was really fun and I got married in the Little White Chapel (see facebook pictures).
*News Flash* Hayley went to a sporting event! Because Harvard was being dumb about the tailgate alcohol policy, the Princeton game became the focus of the most tailgating fun! I had a great time hanging out with my sorority sisters and all my Stiles friends. We were winning up until the fourth quarter when Yale essentially gave up and Princeton won... arghhhh... we could have held the Ivy Title to ourselves....
Not only did I go to ONE sporting event, I went to TWO! The Harvard game was the weekend that Thanksgiving Break started and I went to Boston on the bus. Although the tailgate was lame, the game was amazing. Yale won 34 to 13 and everyone rushed the field at the end. This would have been fine except that it was probably a 10 foot drop or more to the field so you basically had to jump and hope someone was there to catch you. My hands were bleeding from the concrete and one girl broke her leg, but it was still amazing!
After a freaky night alone in the dorm, I was on my way home for an amazing break! I watched Gilmore Girls with my mom, went and picked up Matt at school, went to Aquinas and saw all my old teachers, spent time with my family on Thanksgiving, and had a great reunion party with all of my friends. It was as if I never left.
Now I'm back on campus with two weeks of tough work ahead of me, one week of "Reading Week" where I'll finish one final paper and study for one final, and then my finals week of only one final. Then, thank goodness, I'll be back home. Wow. One eighth of my college career done. Oh, wait, I'm thinking of going to medical school... I'm not even CLOSE to being done... :P
Love you all and miss you!
Hayley
