SSS and Formal: A crazy weekend!

LizM — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:42:00 GMT

Only one week of classes left! Yikes! The worst thing about it, is that this weekend was SO much fun but I got absolutely nothing done.

Friday night was Spring Sports Spectacular, the event put on by SGA that was a huge variety of sports competitions between the greek houses and independent council*. There were so many activities between Hinkle, the Health and Rec Center, and the Butler Bowl. I personally beasted some Mario Kart on the N64. I didn't win, but i gave the race all i had. I found a group of Thetas and we wandered around, watching the intense tug-of-war battle in the main gym, and the extremely popular dance off contest and karaoke in Hinkle. I think the most fierce competition was the soccer tournament, but those games didn't start until really late and I was so tired, so I didn't stick around for that. Jimmy Johns and Hot Box pizza provided some delicious goodies so I couldn't pass that up either. There was also a penny war between all of the houses. Honestly, I probably helped Theta lose because I didn't understand the concept of the penny war AT ALL. I felt kind of stupid.

Apparently you get points for every Penny you put in the bucket, and real money or silver coins detract points. Unbeknownst to me, I threw some dollars and coins in our bucket, confused why later my friends asked me why I put it in ours and not someone elses ha! But all of the money went towards supporting the Special Olympics, so no matter who won it was all for a fantastic cause.

Our formal was the following night, so I headed home around midnight to catch some z's before Saturday. My Saturday was nice and relaxing: Headed to Starbucks in the morning to knock out some Bio homework, went to the HRC for a quick workout, and then back to Schwiz to shower, paint my nails and curl my hair before 6. I volunteered to be on risk management for this formal, so I helped out the head Theta in charge of making sure everyone got to the dance safely and anyone who wanted to leave early could get a Cab back to school. I went over to the house early to get some pictures with my friends and check out everyone's pretty dresses :) I ended up taking two dates (because ladies is pimps too) and they were both sooo much fun!! I had a blast dancing with everyone and enjoying the night.

Yesterday I pretty much got nothing at all done, and I have a heavy workload for this last week of class. Boo. Two of my friends and I went to Target and bought a lot of things we didn't really need: Some pretty sweet crazy sunglasses and strawberry milkshake oreos. When we got back to school it was raining, so we put on our shades and had a spontaneous dance party in the parking lot. These are the things I will miss the most over the summer. Just being able to go out and do absolutely nothing but loving every minute of it.

*I mentioned Independent Council before and you're probably wondering what that is. Independent Council just started up this year, and is a group of students who are non-Greek but still want to participate in the big philanthropy events for the houses as well as all campus events like SSS and Spring Sing. They've had a great first year on campus, participating in Trike lipsyncs, Spring sing, and Spring sports as well as hosting a benefit concert with some on-campus bands. Pretty exciting stuff!

TGIF

SarahG — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:21:00 GMT

After a full and eventful week I am definitely ready for the weekend... although I think it may prove to be even busier! I got to start my weekend a bit early because my classes were cancelled for today. Every Spring, Butler hosts the Undergraduate Research Conference, where students from different areas of study get to present their research. I attended two psychology presentations from members in my lab, and then a few more on anthropolgy given by one of my sisters! I'll actually get to give a URC powerpoint next year on the research I'm conducting this summer during BSI, so I'm pretty excited about that. It will be cool to give a speech on something I'm really involved with and know so much about!

Aside from the conference, tonight is another big event at BU: Spring Sports Spectacular! All of the greek houses, in addition to teams from the Apartment Villiage and other non-greek housing units compete in various sporting activities in an event that lasts all night long (until around 6-7 AM!). Last year I played catchphrase and scattegories - athletic, I know haha - and this year I'm participating in the whiffleball tournament! Should be a lot of fun... we'll see how long I last this year. I think last spring I surrendered to sleep around 4 AM! I might need to nap beforehand to beat that record haha...

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SSS and Formal: A crazy weekend!

TGIF