Beautiful Mess

Somehow, I always find myself in too many things. Too many extracurricular activities (I mean seriously, an officer in two organizations at once? what was I thinking?), too many hours at work/tutoring, and too many classes. I started off college not doing anything outside of extracurriculars, homework, and school. I sat on my butt, went to football games in the fall and did homework in the spring on the weekends. I was the EPITOME of cool...

Being 21 has definitely changed that. I enjoy going out Wednesday nights instead of spending them in my "palace-prison" Shelby (the College of Engineering building here at Auburn).

Outside of Shelby, facing a street

Which is what I'm currently doing tonight. I feel TOTALLY COMPLETELY at home in Shelby... It is a wonderful building. I feel super safe and there are tons of computers everywhere and everyone is either pretending to do work or actually doing work (I happen to be pretending right now)... and the third floor has rooms that only INSY majors can use, so all these randos in the bottom computer lab would not be able to get into them.

Right now, I'm procrastinating finishing the draft of my resume for my Professional Practices class. I also had to write a cover letter, and it could be generic, but I fashioned it like I was going to apply to a job with Michelin. Let's be real, I can't do generic. I'm also currently working on a super awesome computer program where when processing times and due dates are entered for jobs, I can find the "optimal" solution using a specific algorithm. Whoa, that sounds really difficult... I guess that's why I'm still not done yet, which is totally okay because it is not due until Tuesday. However, if I don't get this dumb "while" loop to work I might have to cut someone or complain.



No big deal. This weekend is supposed to be a super fun one for me, as I am having a visitor and going to yet another thrilling game between Auburn and Mississippi State. Kappa is also having their Parent/Alumni tailgate with Mike & Ed's BBQ.... You better believe I'm going. Me + Free Food = Match Made In Heaven.

Nick Fairley (2010)

I've been yawning and stretching my arms in this computer lab for an hour now, so maybe it is time to go home... But I've been researching what to do when I go to Europe/France and need a phone (for 6 months!). I've decided that I'm going to bring my Blackberry along with me and ask Verizon if they can unlock it for me to use it in France... I also want to get an iPhone but that's beside the point, I need to wait until the iPhone5 comes out this month to Verizon. When I went last Thursday the employees had yet to be told when it was coming out!! Ridiculous... I just need to know when to hound my mother enough so that she says yes :)

Also, the fact that my savings account will decrease two-fold when I go to Europe really stresses me out. What is the point of saving $5,000 if it's only going to be worth 2,500 Euro... and I'm not all too sure that the Euro actually goes further in Europe than a dollar goes in the US... For example... say I were to fly to Greece one weekend.... I don't want to blow my whole savings account on that one trip!

Traveling is MY LIFE. I LOVE TRAVELING. I love museums, art, different cultures, pretty sights, etc. I would be devastated if my traveling was diminished because of the dollar to euro exchange rate.

$1.4 for every 1 euro

All this is for another day though. Happy Wednesday/Thursday!

Game Day: 2011

(This is the song for the 2011 Intro Video for Auburn's football team)

I never particularly cared for football when I was growing up. Being from Charlotte, I was a Carolina Panthers fan & I watched games when I had time, but I never took time out of my day to sit down and watch the whole game. I was a busy kid, with tons of extracurricular activities. I went to all my high school football games my senior year, and I started getting into it. I went to a few college games during my senior year of high school, most notably the UNC-Maryland game in 2007.

Nothing prepared me for Auburn Football, the Auburn Experience. The first game I went to, I got goosebumps when the eagle flew around the stadium, when I watched the drum majors and band run out onto the field, and heard the crowd roar as the team took the field after the intro video. It was a moment unlike any other for me, and I cannot describe how it makes me feel. Once you experience it, you know what it's like. Until then, you'll wonder at why people gush over the experience of a Saturday on The Plains.

I was not an Auburn fan before I started at Auburn University, I was not an avid-Alabama hater, and I still am not. I will always hate Duke more than I hate Alabama, it's just a fact of my life. Growing up a UNC fan, I just could not understand why everyone loved Duke. They were annoying to me. Cocky, self-righteous... And I was a kid thinking this! I watched UNC basketball, and I remember where I was when UNC won the NCAA tournament in April 2005. That season I watched all the basketball games at the same house, in the same spot on the floor. When UNC was doing poorly, I would change my spot or the way my head was tilted or what I was drinking.... It was a great season for me.

Now, I do the same thing for Auburn football games. I watched the National Championship game at my friend's house & almost had a heart attack at the end of the game. I watched the 2010 Iron Bowl game with Reuben at my house & bore a hole into the carpet with my pacing. I took myself outside and walked around my front and back yard trying to calm down (my mother didn't like me yelling so loudly at the tv, it scared her...).

I would never have been this crazed about any football team if I had not had the experience at Auburn University. I may hate the stereotypical Alabama football fan like every other Auburn-lover, but one-on-one with an Alabama football fan, I could never be rude or nasty to them.


Auburn/Utah State Highlights

This weekend was the first game of my "Senior" year of college. As I am staying for another year (yay CO-OP!), it's not my last season. However, for the majority of my friends, it is. It's not going to be a pretty season, but that's ok by me. I just hope we don't have a repeat of 2008, when we lost to Vanderbilt...

War Eagle.