2nd semester is in the books

Story of this semester:

I think I won the battle, but as a whole we lost the war.

It was a rough run of things for quite a few people I think which sucks and saddens me. There is nothing worse than seeing people struggle who do not deserve to do so. I guess we'll see when all the grades come out, but until then...my thoughts go out.

Noxolo

So.Ready.To.Be.Done

Block 4 was yesterday and was pretty brutal. I hate that i've studied more for these last 2 blocks than I did all last semester combined, yet i've done quite a bit worse. By all means, I can't complain....I do fine. However, for the amount of work I feel I put in....I don't get out what I want. I guess there is always room for improvement and I'm looking forward to a clean slate next semester! I fly out and will be home in 8 days...but still have 3 cumulative finals to  give my best shot.

Here we go.

Noxolo

Ugh OH

Here comes one heck of a week...followed by another! We're officially in the home stretch! 1 week from tomorrow is block 4, then another week until finals. Should be an interesting run filled with lots of studying, little sleep, ICM2!?, and more studying!

Wish me luck.

The morning of the 15th can't come soon enough...yet I wish I had another month just to study for these next tests!

Noxolo

Thanksgiving

It's been a long day and not my standard thanksgiving to say the least. Between class, a trip to the ER with a friend, and a few hours of cooking...it's all starting to calm down. It's been a weird time being away from home and family BUT I'm super thankful I could spend it with my SXM friends who are my fam here. At the end of the day, we all have something to be thankful for.

Noxolo

Oh Hipsters

Since moving to a tropical island I'm missing out on all my hipster eye time! Now that i'm heading back states side in a few weeks I'd brush up on Stuff Hipsters Hate. Made me laugh...and i'm super tired from studying! BUT...it's thanksgiving! woot woot! (at least here it's 12:05 only since we don't observe daylight savings down here...ugh).

Noxolo

This week would be packed...

So we're getting into prime study time for block 4 and finals, but you know how it is...there is always something going on! This week we have full ICM small groups (I went today, and weird enough but ICM is growing on me), Phi Chi initiation tonight, Thanksgiving on Thursday (even though we don't get school off a few of us are getting together to cook a feast fit for a king), and little odds and ends in between.

However, 23 days from now I will be sitting in the Chicago airport waiting to catch my connect to Minneapolis! It's been almost 8 months in the making since I took that long flight...half of it with Tubby Smith to Atlanta! On that note...Gopher basketball really stepped it up and won the Puerto Rico Tournament knocking off #8 North Carolina and a very good West Virginia team that made a run into the Final 4 last year! They must have shown something since they jumped to #17 in the poles...let's just hope they can keep it up!

Noxolo

Sunday Dinner...the last bit of sanity until December 15h

So a few of us have Sunday dinners every week and this week it was my turn to cook. I really don't cook though..hmmm. With a quick email home I figured i'd make steak kabobs with red peppers, onion, and mushrooms marinated in a teriyaki/honey sauce with cheesy potatoes, corn on the cob, rolls, and fruit pizza. It turned out way better than expected :) Compound all that amazing food with a great lunch of wings, ribs, crab cakes, chips and salsa at Jimbo's for the phi chi social and a great dinner of a 14oz filet mignon, homemade mashed potatoes, and whiskey carrots from Toppers last night...i'm stuffed! All in all...a great weekend but I got ZERO studying done since Thursday night so it's going to be another LONG week..and really a long push from here on out!

Noxolo