Hello Everyone!

Another week has flown by at St. Lawrence and I am left wondering where does the time go!  Greek Recruitment took up much of the past week for me, specifically Wednesday to Sunday.  It definitely left me slightly behind in my work which explains why my blog post is a few days late! My apologies.  However, Recruitment was definitely worth it!  I am a member of Delta Delta Delta National Sorority and I have lived in the house since the spring of my sophomore year!

At. SLU you can rush a Greek organization as a sophomore.  There are four sororities and two fraternities on campus.  For SLU recruitment there are three nights designated by our Pan-Hellenic Association to invite independent women to our house.  The first night is a tour of the Sorority, the second is a fun theme night that is meant to educate girls on each house’s values and the third (my favorite of them all) is skit night.  Skit night we wear crazy outfits, dance like Elaine from Seinfeld, and put on a "Skit" that we feel best describes our house.  After skit night the independent women must sign their preference cards and wait until the next morning to find out which house offered them a bid. Bid Saturday is comparable to Christmas day for the Greeks!  The entire house is up before 8:00 AM, something that does NOT normally happen, and anxious to discover who will be joining our house! We meet our new girls at the central Quad on campus driving in decorated cards, screaming chants and cheers, causing a little bit of mayhem celebrating!

The rest of my week has been catching up on class work and preparing for a presentation I have to give on Friday.  My presentation is for Early British Literature to the 1700’s a required class for my major that I have put off due to my intense fear of Beowulf.  Thankfully, that fear has been conquered and Beowulf is already behind me.  I will be explaining Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, specifically The Wife of Bath's Prologue.  Last night I had to submit an essay to my Advanced Creative Non-Fiction class to be work-shopped next week.  In workshop sessions each student has already marked and read your paper, they then combine all of their comments into a long discussion on what aspects of your essay flowed well and what parts need to be reworked.  It is always really nerve wracking and a little bit exciting when you get this feed back! You never know how a class will react to your work.  Non-Fiction is particularly intense because they know what you are writing is true!

This weekend I am planning on a lot of relaxing down time and maybe some fishing! I've never caught anything before so I will let you know how that turns out!!

Best Wishes & Happy Weekend, 

Haley