Hello blogging world! I hope this finds you well on this cloudy, rainy day but maybe you’re not from around Lexington and you’re reading this in the warm sun, if you are I’m jealous. It’s (continued) to be busy in the Transy neck of the woods, but that’s really pretty good for me. I tend to be more productive and organized when I’m busy because I have to write down the things I need to do and then I remember that I have to do those things instead of remembering them all the night before they need to be done. There are a lot of exciting things going on around campus these days, the winter drama production of Rhinoceros opened last weekend and continues this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30, tickets are $10 to the general public and $5 for the Transy community and you can call (859) 233-3621. Not to mention our very own admissions blogger, Cory Collins, portrays one of the lead roles, Jean. I saw the play last Thursday with the first round of students who were interviewing for the William T. Young Scholarship; the play is def an experience you don't always get in the theatre.
The William T. Young Scholarship is a full ride scholarship that is totally merit based, anyone who applied before December 1st is considered for the scholarship and if they are found to be eligible they are required to complete an additional essay and conduct an interview on campus. The interviews are conducted over two weeks with two separate sessions of students. Each student comes to campus early on Thursday where they are introduced to a student host that they will spend the night with and just hang out with over their two days on campus. The interviews are conducted from early Thursday through Friday afternoon and the students get to sit in on classes and socialize with faculty and staff, not to mention each other. This year I was selected to be a student host and got to hang out with a senior for the day (Hey Sydney!) It was fun experience especially since I couldn’t of even been considered for the scholarship (I was a late applier).
Besides that, last week was "Greek Week" which is a time where the Greek community bands together to do some cool things, from a pep rally to a blood drive to a letter writing campaign for St. Jude's and a bunch of other fun activities ending in the Greek Awards the recognize accomplishments made by each chapter in the preceding year. It was a busy time, so I snuck back home to Indianapolis for the weekend and it was really nice to just be at home with my family and to see some old friends.
I hope you all have stayed dry today! Good luck wrapping up the college search, if you have any questions just leave a comment or shoot me an email!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
So much music...
I hope this finds you well as deadlines start to approach for scholarships, applications, and that all mighty day May 1st looms in the air.
My class schedule this semester is a unique one, but one that you are more likely to find as you get into upper level courses. I am in two Spanish course, Spanish Civilizations and Golden Age Spanish Literature - they complement each other well because we get the history of the time period in Spain and then we get to read some of the literature from the period. The literature is a little bit harder to understand than the history, it's kind of like reading Shakespeare but in a Spanish. The interesting thing about these two courses is that they are both taught by the same professor, Dr. Orlins. Then I'm also in two computer science courses, Computational Theory and Netcentric Computing, that are quite different fields in computer science but once again they are with they same professor, Dr. England. So I only have two professors this semester.
Also, today I'm helping out with the musical scholarship auditions for incoming majors and minors. It's been fun to listen to all the music and it's really exciting to think about all of the possible new musicians that could be here next semester.
Just hanging out waiting to sign some people in
I hope you all are staying warm!
My class schedule this semester is a unique one, but one that you are more likely to find as you get into upper level courses. I am in two Spanish course, Spanish Civilizations and Golden Age Spanish Literature - they complement each other well because we get the history of the time period in Spain and then we get to read some of the literature from the period. The literature is a little bit harder to understand than the history, it's kind of like reading Shakespeare but in a Spanish. The interesting thing about these two courses is that they are both taught by the same professor, Dr. Orlins. Then I'm also in two computer science courses, Computational Theory and Netcentric Computing, that are quite different fields in computer science but once again they are with they same professor, Dr. England. So I only have two professors this semester.
Also, today I'm helping out with the musical scholarship auditions for incoming majors and minors. It's been fun to listen to all the music and it's really exciting to think about all of the possible new musicians that could be here next semester.
Just hanging out waiting to sign some people inI hope you all are staying warm!
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