It's like Christmas in a Bottle!

 With Kenn Starr, the president of Baylor!

So many things are coming to an end! This weekend was Fall Ball and my very last football game as a Baylor student. Crazy, I know. Graduation is like 173 days away!

Fall Ball was Friday night. It was downtown at the Phoenix Ballroom and it was a lot of fun. Emily, James, Ryan (my boyfriend/date) and I went to Elite for dinner before Fall Ball. We were the cool kids who all got the exact same meal at dinner, chicken tender salad. Haha. Then we headed downtown. Fall Ball, with its fall theme, was decorated in fall colors, like oranges, cream and brown. It was really pretty, there was even a fire place with a nice warm fire. We had pumpkin spice cake balls, apple cheesecake, cinnamon spice brownies with fudge on top, and a hot chocolate and coffee bar. The leftovers of which are currently in my fridge! We spent the night dancing and hanging out, enjoying my last semi formal with ADPi. After Fall Ball Ryan and I took a bottle of wine to the hottub at Rivercrest and relaxed there for awhile. 

Saturday was the Baylor v OU game. Ryan and I went to the Delta Sig (His frat) tailgate before the game. At which I tried Shiner Holiday Cheer, which basically tastes like Christmas in a bottle and is my new favorite beer. We hung out, ate, and I met a lot of his friends. It was a lot of fun. A little before the game a bunch of us met up to run the Baylor line for the last time (the line is all the freshman and at the last home game, seniors too who run the field and cheer for the team as they come out of the locker room). It was really cool to do that one last time and to be on the field when the football team came out. Even though OU killed us it was a fun game, and not too cold which was awesome. After the first quarter we left the stadium and watched the game back at the tailgate on tv for awhile and then at halftime went to dinner and watched the rest of the game at home. It's really strange to think that the next time I go to a Baylor game in Waco I'll be a visiting alumnae. 
So basically it was an awesome weekend. Now I just have two days standing between me and thanksgiving break!

 Roomies before Fall Ball

 Me and Ryan 

 Maddie, James, James, Emily, Jenny, Reagan, David, Me, and Ryan

At Fall Ball by the fireplace

 Me and Ashleigh and our dates

 Meggan and Me!

 Graham, Susie, James, Emily, Me and Ryan

 Reagan, Jenny, Me and Katie!

 President Starr stirring chili at the tailgate! He is so nice!

 Getting ready to run the line!

 Senior ADPis at the line

 Ryan, Me, Emily and James

Ryan and his friends.

Here comes the team! 

 Running the Baylor Line

Halfway done?

So, Fall semester of senior year is almost over. Like literally almost over, I think there are approximately three weeks left. Thanksgiving break is coming up fast, so is Fall Ball, and the dreaded finals. Unfortunately I have three tests, and two major research papers before we even hit dead days. All of which I am putting off, senioritis has indeed set in.
In other news Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows comes out next week! So excited about that. I already have midnight tickets and am slightly tempted to dress up. Fall Ball is also next week, on Friday. Reagan is planning it so it should be fantastic and I know we are having pumpkin spice cake balls which promise to be delicious. I got my dress in the mail today, so now I just need some shoes and jewelry. 

Now, onto today's awesome news. This morning I registered for my last semester at Baylor! I'm taking 12 hours, and will have no classes on Friday so the spring is looking up. It was really cool to run my degree audit and see the all requirements met message. Now I just need to find a job, and fill out some grad school applications and next semester can be all about having fun. It's really strange to be almost done with college.  

Degree Audit :)

ADPi and ATO pumpkin carving mixer

Reagan, Michael and My pumpkin

 Final score of the homecoming game

 Me and Emily at the bonfire

 Me and My Parents

 Pat Neff

 Me and Emily in the BEARS

 On the Judge Baylor Statue

First down! and a cool sunset

 

Halloween! 

 Chris got married!

 The cool kids at the wedding

Justin and Annie

Also, if you haven't seen due date it's hilarious so see it!

Bowlcoming and Other Things

Things have been busy lately!
Lets see... I had my first job interview, finally got to go to Houston for a weekend, we built a float, homecoming was this weekend, and oh yeah Baylor beat K-State and is now bowl game eligible for the first time since 1995. We are also now ranked, 25th in the BCS, 24th in the coaches poll, and 25th in the AP poll. So it's been a pretty exciting weekend here in Waco.
Job Interview. Went well, it was with Target and it was good practice for all the future interviews I'm sure I'll have.
Homecoming weekend was awesome, an amazing last homecoming here at Baylor and probably one of the most fun football games I've been to (besides beating A&M sophomore year). As usual the weekend involved little sleep but it was really fun none the less. My parents were here for the weekend so they got to enjoy all the festivities too. Friday night was the bonfire and pep rally and Saturday was the parade and football game. The parade was an early morning as usual (5:30). This year however, I was riding in a 350Z with Emily who was a homecoming nominee for panhellinic. We had a lot of fun throwing candy at kids and our float looked amazing. The football game started with a lightning delay and a huge storm. So we hid out under the stands until the rain stopped and then everyone went back to their seats and the game started 2 hours late. It was an awesome game that ended close at 47-42 and gave us 6 wins for the season! Of course the Baylor students rushed the field and all did a huge sic'em and singing of "That Good Ole Baylor Line" with Ken Starr, David Crowder and the football team. So fun!
It's crazy how fast this semester has passed, we sign up for classes November 10th and I can't wait to see the "all requirements complete for graduation" message. So only a few weeks stand between Thanksgiving and then a few more between finals and Christmas and the end of fall of senior year!

Oh yeah, and the Rangers are going to the world series, but really who cares? They're not the Astros. 

 Row Row Row your boat

 Making flowers at the float site

 Homecoming week!

 Me and Emily and the court announcements

 Willie the Wildcat dead

 All our wonderful characters on the float!

 Parade morning

Bowl game bound!!

The Bucket List

Every senior has a bucket list, it's that list of things to do before graduation. My friends and I have been slowly coming up with ours and before I forget all these things I'm going to put it in writing.

Kyaking on the Brazos
Visit the mammoth site
Visit the Tx Rangers museum
Eat at Food for Thought
Find the Gorilla
Jump off the cliffs at Lake Whitney
Drink a Big O
Run through the fountains at the BSB
Pet the Bears (this is my personal goal, doubt it will happen)
Judge Baylor/ Waco themed pictures

That's all I can think of for now, lame I know.

In other news...

Baylor whooped up on Kansas in football this week (55 to 7). Yeah, take that jay hawk fans.

Also, in an exciting moment of app shopping with Reagan this weekend I aquired a police scanner app (we listened to the Waco channel for a bit), a nifty medical app and my personal favorite, the sex offender app. This is what Waco looks like

This only shows the offenders closest, so I'm sure there are more out there. It's when I see things like this that I think of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

The Future's so Birght

I gotta wear shades... hahaha
Anyway, today was the "Hire a Bear Career Fair" aka: totally nerve racking first encounter with possible employers.
It was surprisingly fun! I went in really nervous and left feeling like I might actually find a really cool job next year. I may have to compromise on the city I want to live in, but still if the job is right I guess I could compromise on the living spot. A lot of the companies at the career fair were very business major oriented but there were still a good group of people to talk to. The first table I visited was the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which sounds totally cool! They hire people to do all sorts of things, from guard to counselor. I also talked to Target, USAA, Providence Health Care, The Burke Center, a news station, the FBI, the secret service, and Eli Lilly. A few of the companies are coming back to do interviews later this semester that I can go to, I have an interview to apply to with the news station to see if I might be interested in reporting, and a few places told me to watch the job openings and they would contact me in March. So all in all it was a successful first job search! Plus I got to wear a suit, which looks pretty baller (and is really hot!).
Saturday is the for real GRE, so this week is just all about the future.

Ghouls night out

It seems like every where you turn in college people are getting engaged or married, especially here at Baylor where the Mrs. degree is a popular thing. Is it really necessary to be settling down at this point in our lives? I mean it's great if you find the person you want to spend your life in college but who cares if you don't? Despite the way some people act finding a husband in college doesn't need to be your goal. I know I'm not alone in this but I'm sick of people acting like it's a bad thing if you're not in a relationship, I don't need to feel bad that I don't have a boyfriend. I'm having fun, I'm figuring things out for myself, now I'm not saying that if the right person came along I wouldn't want a relationship but why rush things? My life goal isn't the ring by spring, as it is so fondly named here at Baylor. Anyway because of this Reagan and I came up with an idea for a single girls night out.
Tonight was Reagan, Jenny and my first ghouls night out. What is that you may ask? Well it's basically girls night out, but ghouls instead in honor of a Halloween sign Reagan and I found. So we are going to come up with fun places to go, like different happy hours or movies or concerts and just go and have fun. Anyway tonight we went to this new place called Sam's on the Square (tequila and tacos). Soo good! They serve a bunch of different kinds of tacos, some soups/ salads and appetizers. They also have a bunch of fun sounding drinks. We were there during happy hour so we got margaritas, queso and tacos! Yumm!! After dinner we went to "A Night with Sarah Palin" which was at the Ferrell Center on campus and it was a fundraiser benefiting Care Net crisis pregnancy center. Care net provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, etc for those experiencing unexpected pregnancy and they are trying to expand their resources to provide a place for the mothers to live, and more counselors to talk to girls.  It was really cool, Sarah Palin is hilarious and a very relatable speaker. She spoke about being pro-life, and about her own experience in finding out her son was going to be born with down syndrome and her fears and about her daughters pregnancy and how Bristol dealt with that. Her accent is adorable, and I love that she doesn't care what the press says about her and her family. She told a lot of funny stories about caribou hunting in Alaska.
So our first ghouls night out was a success! On another note, Baylor is offering a practice GRE for free this weekend, so I'll be taking that, and two weeks later the real one! Also the career fair is coming up Sept 30, so I'll be there too looking for job.

and without further ado...
Things you Shouldn't Name your Kids
Rowane
Laquita
Se'Ryan
Taiesha
Kayanoosh
Chykira (Like Shakira?)
Leekita
Admiral (although this sounds kinda cool)
Le'Darrius
Tiwneshia
Maridandna
Glass Box (yes this was a real number)

Why Hello Septmember

School is quickly moving along, it's already week 3 here, we had a long weekend, and I made a resume. Excitement all around. 
Let me start this post off with a few disclaimers 1) I don't have all the details on this, I don't personally know the guys involved 2) I realize that when I chose Baylor I was going to a private Baptist school and that it would be more conservative here.
Anyway, with that said something happened this week that just really bothered me. There is a fraternity on campus that is a local group and considers itself to be a christian group (I know a bunch of them and for the most part they are nice guys). Like I said, I don't have all the details on this but I guess in their bylaws it says they don't accept members who are gay (how a group of 18-20 something year old guys could seriously all vote for this amazes me). Well anyway I guess one of their members was sending forward text messages to other members and this made the guys involved uncomfortable, any way this basically forced outed the guy and he was brought to standards. Well I guess it was decided that the guy would be asked to go early alum (basically a nice way of kicking you out without actually revoking your membership). Now this whole situation really bothers me, first of all it's not a particularly "Christian" thing to do, second poor guy, he just came out which I'm sure was hard for him and now his group of friends is rejecting him for being himself. Like how shitty is that? When you join a frat you choose the group and the group chooses you, and to then later reject someone because of sexual preference is pretty crappy. This is the point in time when you should be there for someone, not isolate them and act like it's not ok to be who they are. Maybe this just bothered me because I have quite a few gay friends, and even a family member but I don't think you should look at someone differently because of their sexual orientation and it's really sad to think that a group would still do this, I mean I'd like to think the students here for the most part are very welcoming, and this says otherwise. It also makes me lose respect for the group as a whole.
On another note, I went to church this past weekend (sorry not Catholic church Mom) with my roommate and really enjoyed it. The topic of the week was "Happily Ever After" so it was about things you should be looking for in relationships and how a relationship should be a conscious decision made by both parties involved. It was an interesting sermon, and while I didn't agree with everything said I still enjoyed it.
Alright peeps, first test of the semester tomorrow morning so I've got to get to sleep.