Black and Gold! Day!

Internet! It's that time of year again! It's time for Black and Gold Day! This Saturday! Along with Homecoming, Black and Gold Day is one of the best Saturdays of the year to be at Southern Miss. It's a chance for anyone who's interested in Southern Miss to come and see our campus at its finest on a game day. There will be informational sessions, campus tours (hosted in part by yours truly) and Golden Eagle football. I especially am looking forward to the campus tours, as I am Co-Black-and-Gold-Day chair for Eagle Connection, the student recruiting group. We've been preparing diligently for the event on Saturday, and I hope all of you can make it. If you haven't signed up yet, then you can just show up on Saturday and register as a walk-in.

I had an awesome fall break. The Give-a-Push weekend was great. Lake Thoreau is a really cool place and isn't too far from campus. Once the site is finished, it will be a great place for students to go enjoy nature and learn about it as well. My role for the weekend, along with several other fraternity members, was to help cut a path through the woods for one of the accessible trails that will circle the woods. Some other members built an accessible boardwalk over a creek. On Saturday night, we went and painted pumpkins with people with disabilities at the State School in Ellisville. It was an amazing visit and a great weekend.

This week hasn't been too busy, but it's almost like the calm before the storm. Homecoming Week is approaching. Approaching quickly. As in, next week quickly. Next week is Homecoming. I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Where has the semester gone? I feel like I stepped into a wormhole during GEWW, and now I'm just getting out of it. Fun story about wormholes: One day, I slept over at Brad's apartment off campus, and we were driving to our 8:00 AM chemistry class. On the way there, we saw one of our classmates walking with his bike in the opposite direction (away from campus) about a mile from our building and five minutes before class started. When we got to class, he was already there, sitting calmly in class. The only explanation we could think of was that he stepped into a wormhole somewhere on 4th Street, and to this day, his name has been "Wormhole guy."

That's about all for this week. Next week, I'll give you a big, big, rundown of Homecoming Week festivities. I'm talking big.

As always, we're in the countdown to Girl Talk and Eaglepalooza, so here's one of the mixes I put together over fall break: