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AnnaK — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Wow, I've been getting a lot of emails lately! Yay! Here are a few responses for you.

Jenna asked: "One of my concerns is going to a college where everyone goes home on the weekends and the place is dead. I think it would be nice to go home on occasion but I really want to become more independent and don't plan on making that trip home every weekend. Does this happen at Butler? Do a lot of people go home on the weekends? Also what do people do on the weekends at Butler?"

This is a great question, because so many people at Butler are from relatively close by. However, Butler students are very independent and love getting involved on campus. So while yes, it is easy for most people to get home whenever they want, not everyone does all the time. It seems as though out of all of my friends here, maybe 2 at a time will be gone for a weekend (or out visiting another school), but everyone else will still be around. I wouldn't be too worried

On the weekends, we do...everything. Some people go to frat parties, some go out to Broad Ripple (my favorite!), some stay in and play Super Smash Bros. Brawl for 12 hours straight, some go shopping, some partake in the on-campus events like movies or Greek functions... there really is a lot to do!

Suzi asked: I read what you said about Ross, and that definitely seems like I would enjoy it more. So basically, I was wondering where you met most of your friends at Butler? Are they mostly people from your dorms? Because in that case, is it hard for girls in Schwitzer to meet boys? Also, where do people usually live their sophomore year?

Suzi, don't worry, girls in Schwitzer still have a ton of fun! There are quiet girls, party girls, in-the-middle-girls, super athletic girls, funny girls, mean girls, sweet girls, whatever girls - in both Ross and Schwitzer. It depends on the people, not the dorm. I'm sure you will find friends everywhere. I met most of my friends at the beginning of the year during orientation, at Playfair (which is part of freshman orientation), and randomly through classes and around campus. A lot of my friends that I see more often are in Ross, yes, however some of my favorite people on campus live in Schwitzer, and a lot of them hang out in Ross a fair amount of time. To answer your last question, many sophomores will have participated in Greek recruitment, so a lot of them move into their fraternity or sorority houses, but those who don't typically live in Residential College - aka ResCo.

Yael asked: "I was wondering if you can tell me what it's like on campus? Are you involved in Hillel at all? If you are can you give me some ideas of what you do? Also, I'm considering rushing...and I was wondering if you can give me a little better of an idea about the sororities and what it's like."

Campus is beautiful. It's never too empty or too crowded, there are a lot of trees, the buildings are beautiful, pretty much - life is good. I am somewhat involved in Hillel, although not as much as I would like to be. There are weekly meetings and Shabbat dinners which are wonderful, but unfortunately I am usually so busy from class I can't go [:'(]

About the sororities - they are all different, but they are also sooo similar. I recommend when you come to campus, go over to each house for lunch or dinner before recruitment to get an idea of the different personalities within each house. I recommend that you go twice, because you may come out with a totally new perspective on each house. Sorority life is a lot of fun, and I love that at Butler, everyone supports everyone else. We truly participate in friendly competition. We are a true embodiment of the term "Greek community" - that's what we are - one huge family that lives in a bunch of different houses

Alright everyone, I hope I answered your questions well, and I hope your college-choosing decisions get easier and easier! Go bulldogs!

2007: A year in pictures

ChristinaL — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:00:00 GMT

You may think I put tons of pictures up on my blog, but for every one I post, there are hundreds more on my computer. To celebrate the end of 2007, I picked out some of my favorite shots that you haven't seen before. Enjoy!

Bell tower in the snow, February 2007.

Snow day! The guiding spirit of our music fraternity was named Boh, so we made a Kappa Kappa Psi themed "Boh-man".

Our student foundation is known for our rugbies... but we stole the idea from University of Wisconsin. Our conference in Madison was a blast - it's such a cool city and we loved hanging out with the UW students!

KKPsi hosted Salsa Night last year - here's two of my friends dancing. At Butler, we love ballroom dancing (everyone's favorite PE credit!)

In front of the house with my Greek family after I got initiated into Pi Phi.

Sweet 16 game vs. Florida! Butler showed it on a massive screen in Clowes hall. We may have lost, but we're winning in this picture

When our team arrived home from the Sweet 16 in St. Louis, we were there to cheer for them when they got off the bus.

Sigma Nu's World Vision Bowl (sorority football tournament) is one of the most popular Greek events all year. Check out our team captain getting tackled in the middle! Those girls were intense!

All the music & dance fraternities & sororities teamed up this year for a pirate-themed formal. Everyone else pretty much wore normal dresses and suits, but three of my friends who were the DJs for the evening really got into it.

At our District convention in Cincinnati, my Big Big Big Brother Eric won the highest award a collegiate member of KKPsi can get! We were so proud. It was an exciting convention because my big brother (and blogger) Alex was elected district secretary/treasurer, our former chapter president Jeremy was elected district president, and our chapter was selected to host the next convention in Indianapolis! I feel so lucky to be part of such an outstanding group.

So my friend Julie was studying abroad last spring in Australia, but before she left she had a life-size cardboard cut-out made of herself! We took it to all of our KKPsi events and tagged "her" in all our photos of so she could see what we were up to. In this shot, she's hanging out in Cincy with us. Only Julie...

The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life is a huge event at Butler and so much fun. Last year some of my friends and I dressed up our buddy Paul for the Miss-ter Relay beauty competition. Makeup, shaved legs, panty-hose, jewelry... "Paula" was the real deal. She raised a bunch of money for cancer research and so we won the competition!

Once upon a time, we were cleaning out the band storage room in Hinkle when we found a box. My friend Nate said, "Hey, I can use this!" He took the box home over winter break, and when he came back... Boxbot was born! After that, many late nights were spent doing Boxbot photo shoots around Ross Hall...oh the freshmen dorm life. Nothing like it!

I know this isn't the greatest quality picture, but no record of 2007 would be complete without Steak n Shake. This photo is from a special trip with my "family," but I think we went about once a week. Oh frisco melts - how we love thee!

Finals Week - Spring 07. Somebody soapified Star Fountain!

I absolutely loved my freshman dorm room in Schwitzer. I was so sad to leave it that I went on an insane picture taking spree during the last week of school. It was pathetic... but now I can probably do a great blog post on what a Schwitz room looks like!

I spent my summer performing with the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps from Casper, Wyoming. We toured the whole country and performed 3 or 4 times a week - so much fun. Here's the colorguard, aka the people I spent ALL my time with and love soooo much! Most of them are from Texas... I miss them!

Check out how tan I was by the end of the summer!

Even though I was all over the country this summer, I never felt too far away from home because there were always Butler friends around. Chris (the guy in the BU sweatshirt) is a drummer who marched with me for 2 summers in a row (and helped convince me to go to Butler!). Evan, in the middle, is also a music major at Butler and is the drum major for a different corps from South Carolina. This photo was taken right after he was named best drum major of all the corps in the nation! Go Bulldogs! : )

Drum Corps International Championships were in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl this year, so we got a day off to enjoy Cali. We spent an afternoon at Santa Monica Pier where MTV happened to be filming an episode of Next (see they bus behind us?) And yes, it is as fake as it looks on tv. The producers tell all the people what to say!

"Make new friends but keep the old"... even though I'm not home very much, I'm still close with some of the same friends I've had since junior high. Ashley (who goes to Augustana in IL) and Sarah (who goes to GWU in DC and took this picture) and I had a campout on my back porch before we all headed back to school in August.

Back at Butler, finally! Block Party is my favorite part of Welcome Week because you can find out about all the awesome student organizations. Here I am at the Butler Student Foundation (BUSF) table with Forrest (president) and Sara (secretary).

BUSF always helps out with Homecoming and this year Kate and I worked at Blue's Family Fun Fair - of course we had to test all the games ourselves before the kids got there!

My Big Sis Ariel was our Homecoming Queen candidate for Pi Phi. Here we are at the football game - she's the greatest!

Living up my nineteenth birthday with two of my best friends, Amy and Betsy.

Pi Phi and Sigma Nu teamed up to plant trees for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful this fall and had such a blast. My friends Jon, Ariel, Ross and I were an amazing team - we planted four trees and named them all after characters from Finding Nemo. This is Sharkbait!

Fall at Butler is so beautiful! I love our campus.

One of my favorite things about being a sophomore is getting a Little Brother for KKPsi. I first met Jimmy at camp when he was 16. Last year when I heard he was looking at Butler I was so excited that I did everything in my power to convince him to come here. Not only did he choose Butler, but he joined my fraternity and now he's my little!

The BUSF exec board puts so much hard work into creating a great experience for Butler students, alumni and prospectives, so it was so sweet that our advisor rewarded us by taking us along to Chicago to help with her conference. These three people with me are some of the most involved student leaders at Butler and I admire them all so much. I feel so lucky to consider them great friends, too!

Basketball was one of the greatest parts of 2007, and it looks like 2008 could be even better! "DAWG POUND! wooooooosh!"

Wow, 2007... my first full year at Butler and such an amazing one. So many great people, good memories, late nights, long days, and fun times.

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful 2008 and that I'll see some of you at Butler this year!

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