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Today is probably as good a day as any to talk about staying home these last two years. I’m not saying what I did was for everybody but I sure as hell won’t allow anyone to tell me that I was missing out on something by not going away. I know that this was the right decision for me and like I’ve said before, if I could start all over again, I would be in the exact same place I am now.
Everyone’s always talking about getting out of here, seeing new things, getting the true “college experience” and I got that. Fact, I’m going to London in 12 days with my college, I went on three trips this past year and I visited many of my good friends at college. I saw things, and I experienced things and I don’t have any regrets staying home. I loved taking two more years to spend time with my family and accompany my parents on random errands or picking up my sisters from practices. I didn’t mind staying in this “shithole” of a town, because to me it’s home and nothing about it is shitty to me. This is where my family is, my friends come home to and everybody knows everybody else. My parents are still so close with their high school friends and they run into eachother’s parent’s and siblings out all the time. I love that. Instead of picking out everything that we don’t have or isn’t as good as some place else’s, I just think about other people in other places that would love to live in an area like ours because it’s safe and it’s home.
Like my girl Carrie sang,
Thank God for hometowns
And all the love that makes you go round
Thank God for the county lines that welcome you back in
When you were dying to get out
Thank God for Church pews
And all the faces that won’t forget you
Cause when you’re lost out in this crazy world
You got somewhere to go and get found
Thank God for hometowns
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Oh, wow.
Whoever made this has won at the internet.
this is perfect!
Hahaha too good.
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I guess it is necessary to talk about phi theta kappa for today’s post since we had our very last meeting today.
I cannot believe the amount of success and fun I’ve had with the organization. Not to mention three awesome trips to Seneca Falls, Saratoga Springs and Nashvilleee!
I’ll pick the top five best things that happened as a result of this organization
1- Kevin- he has become probably my most closest friend at BCC. We are the same people in that we are anal about everything school related and we like agendas too much. He was an awesome person to go on trips with because he was always in a positive mood, always, and we always found things to laugh about. Never have I met someone who can find the positives in just about everything. Its crazy to think that we just met each other at this time last year and we are already getting ready to graduate. I am going to miss him a ton next year especially since we will be going in opposite directions in a “Y”.
2- Irene- I can’t say my experience would have been nearly the same without my advisor. I loved her for being so laid back and letting us spend our time at the conferences the way we wanted. I know that with any advisor we would not have been able to see as much as we did any where we went. Plus getting us funding for everythinggg- from books to food for meetings to gift cards. I must have got triple my student activities fee back in reimbursements for all of that. She’s the greatest.
3- Trips- each trip got gradually better. When we started off in Seneca Falls nearly getting blown over by the wind, we barely knew each other and we were just getting comfortable. That trip we enjoyed touring Cornell’s Agriculture Experiment Station, dancing so much the last night, making massive and delicious sundaes and watching E being her crazy and out spoken self. When we went to Saratoga, we found ourselves in such a cute town, a nice hotel and the weather was beautiful. Lucky for us the conference was basically a big pitch to get regional officers for the next year and since none of us qualified, we spent our whole Saturday and St Patricks Day walking looking at historic homes, eating fresh kettle corn, shopping, reading in the park and eating at some great restaurants. When we got to Nashville we were in an even nicer, massive, city within itself hotel. It was absolutely the best hotel I have ever been in. We got to listen to two of the greatest speakers PTK has ever had, got to go to the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame, walk around downtown Nashville, and went swimming outside. All of this 100% free. Everything down to the food at the airport was paid for. With all the budget issues the club is going to be facing next year, I was so fortunate to attend all three of these trips and I absolutely had the greatest experiences.
4- The Pinnacle Award/Five Star Status/Hallmark Awards - as a six member board we accomplished all of those things in one semester. None of us expected as much success and as prestigious of an award as we were given.
5- The other opportunities that stemmed from PTK- as an executive board member I was given other opportunities, some of them I took, but not all things I could take advantage of. I did join the Great Books Discussion this semester where I read the Arabian Nights and we are going on a hike/dinner in June. I got the Rod Serling Scholarship through Ithaca College because of being active on campus, especially with PTK. I was asked to be a Marshall for the liberal arts division at the graduation ceremony but I had to turn it down because I’ll be in England and I was asked to attend the Inauguration Conference in January but I decided to turn it down because I just didn’t have the money for it.
This post probably didn’t get many reads but that’s ok. I know that I’m going to enjoy looking back on these posts someday and remembering what great opportunities and experiences I had while a PTK executive board member.
Hopefully my sunflowers look like this soon!
Well.. Here goes my first post. And I’ve got nothing.
I think that it’s more like I have a lot I want to comment about but too tired to type it out. So instead I’m going to shout out to my top 3 favorite teachers:
-Wingate
Absolutely the best history teacher. She is an amazing lecturer, she’s always bringing in old articles, items and pictures from the era she’s talking about. Shes so knowledgable and I would love to travel with her one day. I wish I could take her Native American class over and over again.
-Skinner
I’m so bummed I took him for the first time this semester because I totally would have taken more comm classes with him. I loved interviewing him on his life and listening to him talk about his experiences in school. He’s gotten a communications degree so he gave me so much advice and is just such a genuinely nice guy.
-Pierog
Pierog, Pierog, Pierog. My man. My homie. He was my very first teacher and my very first class at BCC in the fall of 2010. I learned a lot from him about college life, doing well, smoking weed and getting involved. He’s the best. And I’m still convinced he’s an undercover investigator.
Nine gifs of sad moments from Desperate Housewives to represent how I feel about the show ending next week.
WAHHHHH :’(
