First Week!!!!!

First Post! YES!

Alright, well it's been one heck of a First Week here at UIS. Lots of good times! Let's see...where to begin...

Well, Monday was the first day of classes (by the way, my schedule this year is incredible...Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6 pm). So I saw a lot of people that I hadn't seen in a while, which was cool.

Tuesday was a fun day. I worked at Admissions, then hit the Involvement Expo to stand at the Student Government table. I didn't get any pictures of that, but I'm hoping one of the other bloggers did. At 6 I hit my night class for a few hours. Once I got out of that, it was off to JW's (a local bar). Jayger plays there Tuesday nights, and it's a great time for anyone who is old enough to attend (I'm talkin' to you, transfer and grad students :-) ). Let's see if I can't post a few pictures of that right here...

Jayger

So Tuesday was cool. Wednesday after work I helped put together some furniture, then chilled a little at my apartment. One of my roommates has Guitar Hero for the PS2, so I rocked out a little bit as well. I ended up hanging out with Becca and Josey (two of my friends that I'm sure will be in many posts to come) at Thirsty's Playground for just a little while. Overall, it was a pretty chill evening. But Thursday...oh, Thursday...

I'd been looking forward to Thursday all week. I worked, went to my peer mentoring meeting, and then headed up to my evening class, which is a political philosophy class. This class is going to blow my mind, as far as theory goes. After that I met up with some friends, and eventually we made our way to Bootleggers for a going away party. Leslie Rossman, who just completed her master's thesis, is moving to Chicago soon. We're going to miss her, but I'm sure she'll be around to visit (Leslie, if you're reading this....you'd better come around to visit). It was just a great time for anyone in attendance.

Now on to Friday. I had a campus senate meeting in the morning. When that finished I went to a focus group about the preview days we have at UIS (we're always innovating...we're good like that). Then I worked until five. After that was a tailgate followed by the soccer game. Hmm...I'm sure I have a few pictures around here to show you.

This is Chad. The games wouldn't be the same without him.

This is my buddy John. I'm taking a picture of him, taking a picture of me, taking a picture of him...you get the idea (oh, the complexity of it all!)

On the left is my friend Vishal. He's also the Senator to the College of Public Affairs and Administration (PAA) on SGA. That's the kind of enthusiasm I like to see!

That's probably enough for the soccer game. Next time I'll actually post some pics of the team. Well, back to the post. Saturday I had to run home for an eye doctor appointment. I'll have new glasses soon, so I'm pretty excited about that. Then some of us walked downtown to a blues festival that was going on. It was really interesting being able to see the community turn out like they did. Sometimes I forget that there is a lot more to Springfield than just UIS. I think I have one more pic I can put up, then I'm going to wrap things up.

See, look at all the people who aren't students!

It was a good night overall. Today is Sunday and I've got an SGA meeting tonight. It's our first one of the year, so I'm looking forward to it. I'll try to make my posts more than once a week from now on. I imagine this one was a little bit long...

Thanks for reading! I'll see you around.