Stevens Admissions: Julia

The Last Weekend

I made sure to have a great weekend due to the fact that I'll probably be in the library for the next two weeks.

Friday: Boken Night #3
Nore Davis, Julian McCullough, and Greg Giraldo all performed at the New York City Comedy Night held in Debaun Auditorium. Julian McCullough was my favorite, but all three did a great job.

Saturday: BEACH SWEEPS
In my opinion this is one of the most fun service events we get to do in APO, and it basically entails driving to Point Pleasant early in the morning and cleaning the beaches for a few hours. We were lucky that it was an absolutely gorgeous day and that one of our fellow brothers lives 10 minutes away from the beach, so after we were done cleaning we drove there to hang out and enjoy the beautiful day. We took turns relaxing on the hammock, paddle-boating, and for the more enthusiastic... playing(singing?) ABBA singstar and High School Musical: Sing It! on Playstation 2.

BOKEN: Upon arriving back from the beach, I went down to Boken's Boardwalk. Usually the River lot is full of cars, but for this one day, it was full of booths with games, carnival rides, cotton candy, popcorn, lemonade, balloons, and all sorts of things. It was amusing to watch Hoboken residents walk past with puzzled faces. For our APO Booth we did a play off the plane landing in the Hudson, called "Hero on the Hudson", in which we would give prize money to people who could "engineer" a paper airplane and then throw it into our cooler of water, like Sully... but not really. When the time the drawing came you could feel the excitement, and see the loops and loops of tickets that some people had to keep track of. The grand prize was a flat screen 42" tv... and one of my best friends ended up winning it! I still can't believe that happened, but I'm definitely going to directly benefit from this win.

Sunday: APO & Food?

Another beautiful day. My APO family decided to have a brunch/picnic in the morning. We had breakfast burritos, french toast casserole, fruit salad etc... We just sat in the sun and hung out for a while. At night we had our end of the year APO Awards Dinner, at which we celebrate the graduating seniors. I'll miss my Big :(

Only one more week of class. My word.

Here's a picture of the Beach Sweeps group:

Free Cone Day!

Today was Free Cone Day at Ben and Jerry's. With it's close proximity to McClean, it made for a nice way to end Biosystems Lab. The fact that we dissected a sheep's kidney just ten minutes earlier did not take anything away from our enthusiasm. Free food tastes so good.

Today was also APO initiation. I'm so happy for the new brothers :)

Last weekend was pretty exciting. The Men's Volleyball Team made it to the National Championships, and played in the Final Four on Friday  and in the Championships on Saturday.  As part of the Women's Volleyball team, we always try to support their team, but the turn-out for the matches this weekend was absolutely amazing. Fans from all different teams, fraternities, sororities, friends of players, and anyone with an appreciation for great volleyball, boarded the Fan Buses to Ramapo College. Armed with body paint, pom-poms, balloons, custom t-shirts, and newspapers, the Cheering Section seemed almost as excited as the players on the court. The team won on Friday against UC Santa Cruz and then played in the final match against Juniata. Though Stevens ended up losing in the final, they still had an amazing season and it was great to see another one of our teams make it to the National Championship (Men's Soccer also made it to their Finals).

Friday night after coming back from the volleyball match, we got the chance to catch the UNITY show. You could tell how much work all the groups put into their acts. It was a lot of fun watching the people you see every day in class, on stage performing. FAST (Filipino Association of Stevens Tech) won this year, they put on a heck of a show.

On Sunday the campus was buzzing with events for the newly accepted students, the Class of 2013! It's always nice to see the campus super busy, and this week is going to be one of the busiest of the school year. Yup, BOKEN starts tomorrow!

:)