Today was the first day of 2009. I feel that 2008 was a really good year and I’m thankful to God for what he’s done in my life during that time. As I look back at what transpired in 2008, I can see His hand working in my life, so I wanted to share some of the ways God has blessed me in 2008.
Two final exams down and two to go. I feel pretty good about the first two, so hopefully I’ll feel the same about the others. I gotta say though, I’ll be ready for the break when all this is over. I’m gonna get a lot of sleep, because going into winter term, I know I won’t be getting much. It’ll be fun though. Even though Computer Architecture I and Databases will be challenging, I think I’m going to really enjoy them (of course, we’ll have to see how I feel at the end of the term 
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This past weekend Rose’s Ultimate Frisbee Team hosted an Ultimate Frisbee tournament. 10 teams participated in heated games that lasted two days. In the end, Rose’s ‘A’ team beat Southern Illinois for the tournament title with a score of 12-10. I really enjoyed watching the tournament. Unfortunately, I enjoyed it so much that I forgot to take any pictures. Oh well, maybe I’ll get a chance in the spring.
Rose-Hulman is a school full of tradition. Last weekend we celebrated one of our greatest Homecoming traditions… the bonfire.
Freshman spend the week before homecoming constructing the bonfire out of about 5,000 railroad ties. It reaches 20-30 feet into the air and is crowned by an outhouse donated by someone in Terre Haute. Adding to the excitement, the sophamores attempt throughout the week to tear down the bonfire. 8:00 pm until 8:00 am is “open season”, but they have to get past the freshman who are guarding the bonfire with their lives (well, at least with nerf guns and maple syrup).
Tomorrow is the day! Freshman classes will officially begin. Of course most of it will be no different than before, but I’ll have a much heavier load, plus I’m working 2-3 times as much this year than last year. It promises to be an interesting year!
Today was the day! We finally received our laptop computers. These babies have 4 gigs of memory (hehe, watch out blender!) and a 120 gig hard drive (not wonderful, but an improvement over my old laptop which had only 80 Gigs).
“And in a fury of motivation, he began writing posts like, every day”… Actually, I’ve just got a lot more time on my hands since I’m not working (as much) and school hasn’t started yet. (In other words, don’t expect this pattern to continue for very long!)
Freshman orientation began yesterday. So far the activities have been enjoyable.