Back in Business

The past couple of weeks I have been at RA training, so it is good to be back on campus full-time. During RA training we went to camp in Maryland where we were able to go canoeing, play basketball, and make smores. We also had an RA talent show which I organized and hosted. We had a good amount of talents and a fair share of odd skits. It was a good break in the middle of training. I met a lot of great people and am excited to be working in North Hall this year.

Anyway, I am back in classes for my last Fall Term here at Drexel. This term I am taking Principles of Human Resources Administrative Management, Marketing Research, Planning and Control of Operations Management, and Linear Modeling for Decision Making. All of my classes are business classes and one of them doesn't have any exams. Though my classes are may be a little easier this term, I have a ton of extra curricular stuff going on: SigEp, Student Ambassadors, intramurals, and RA. Nonetheless, this should be a great term

I have already met all of residents and a ton of freshman. Fall is always a great time to be on campus, because everyone is so excited to be here. It just feels good to walk around campus.

I need to schedule gym time into my actual schedule because I don't have a lot of free time during the day. It's days like this that I wish I had a gym in my own building. Oh well, it's only a block and a half away.

Anyway, I need to go buy waffles and iced cream for my floor meeting tonight, so I need to stop writing. Here is a picture of me one of the RAs took of me at RA camp. I think I look good in it so I am going to post it. Be back soon.

Reading is Fun...

It's Week 9 of Summer Term here at Drexel, and I couldn't be happier. I only have a few papers left until finals. I have been filling up my free time with working out at the DAC (gym) and reading. I decided instead of sleeping all day, I will try my best to get in-shape and read all of the books on my must-read list. I used to hate reading in High School, because it was mandatory. Now that I can read for fun, reading is actually fun. Over the past couple of weeks I have read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, and Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I am currently reading Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy and plan on reading the Watchmen by Alan Moore. I don't know why, but I am on a reading binge.

Besides being studious, I have been enjoying my summer. Monday was my birthday, so I am officially 23 years old. I had doctors appointment back in Reading, so I was back in my hometown for my birthday. I was able to see my grandparents and even went to a Reading Phillies game with my Pop Pop. It was cool because Pedro Feliz from the Philadelphia Phillies was in Reading for a rehab start and hit two home runs. To bad they were the only runs the Reading Phils scored.

The other weekend I went down to Old City for First Friday. All of the Art Galleries were open for people to view for free. There are local artists all over the streets of Philly showing off and selling their work. It happens every first Friday of the month and is always a good time. If you are ever in Philly on the first Friday of the month, head to 2nd and Market and start wondering.

Dillon Scissor-Hand

So the last few weeks has been a struggle because of my hand surgery, but I am finally out of my cast and more mobile. I can use my hand for simple things but can't lift weights or do anything to crazy. My goal is to be able to hold a briefcase in my fingers and I am slowly making progress. My hand therapist is a faculty member down at the Center City Hahnemann Campus. I go down there once an week and each week she has given me more hand exercises. Currently I have a six exercises workout which takes up 30 minutes at a time, 4 times a day. Either way, I am sticking to schedule because I don't want to re-injure my hand. So about 6 weeks down... 3 months to go?

I had all 3 of my midterms over the past two weeks. I had my last midterm tonight in Criminal Law. It consisted of 18 essay and short answer questions and almost took me 3 hours to complete. Even though the test was so long, I enjoyed taking it. The test had a lot of scenarios for which we had to develop the best defense or prosecution. I usually don't enjoy taking tests, but I really enjoyed this one. Who knows kids... maybe one day you could enjoy taking a test?

Speaking of tests, Friday I will be taking the GRE tests. The GREs are basically the SATs for college students. I thought I was done with standardized testing once I left high school, but I am still studying vocab words and analogies. Please, wish me luck!

So, lets move on to the highlight of the week. The Philadelphia Soul won the AFL Arenabowl Championship! The Soul was the best team all season and they finally brought a championship to Philly. It may not be a World Series, Stanley Cup, or Superbowl, but its something. Another huge advantage to the Soul winning is that Jon Bon Jovi is going to play a free concert in Philly since the Soul won. For those who don't know, Bon Jovi owns the Soul. So if you're a Bon Jovi fan, keep your ears open for a free concert.

Anyway I need to get back to studying... or watching TV... no wait, studying.

Brewing and Philosophy

So this week I had two big projects due, one in Business Planning and one in the Philosophy of Ethics. My project for Business Planning consisted of a paper and a presentation, and Ethics required only a presentation. Both were due on Tuesday... TUESDAY! So I stayed up quite late on Monday to finish them.

The business my group is creating is a Home Brewing store located in the University City, were individuals can come to learn how to brew and bottle their own beer. The presentation went well and it seems to be a promising idea, at least for this class.

In philosophy we had to present on the Ethics of Professionalism. We took about an hour to review the subject and play a number of entertaining youtube.com clips. We raised a good number of questions the class debated. I didn't understand some of them, but at least there was discussion.

I had a long week full of restless sleep, but I'm excited for this weekend because I have nothing due next week and I get to go play with my girlfriends two year old niece. If you ever get a chance to play with a two year old who is talking up a storm, do so. It's a lot of fun, especially when you can go home afterwards.

Well have a happy Friday.

4th of July in Philly

So I had a chance to relax this weekend. Friday was the 4th o July, so I slept late, BBQed all day, and then went to the Art Museum to see the fireworks. Last year the fireworks were canceled because of rain, but the rain held off enough this year for a great show. John Legend performed on the parkway earlier at night, but I didn't feel like battling the crowd to see him.

On Saturday a bunch of Sig Eps and I went to the Bridge movie theater down on 40th and Walnut to see Handcock. All in all it was a pretty good movie. After the movie my girlfriend and I went to Marathon grill for dinner and then went to Ben and Jerry's for dinner.

Today I just hung, out watched baseball, cleaned up a little, and watched Harry Potter on TV. I need to do some homework tonight. I have 2 presentations on Tuesday; one in Philosophy and the other in Business Planning. Hopefully I will be able to sleep tonight and tomorrow night. Wish me luck.

It's been a while...

Alright, so I haven't updated this in a while, so it's time to catch up. Let's do this in a abbreviated mode.

Greek Week:

Sig Ep finished 2nd place over all. We placed 2nd in stroll which disappointed me because we finished in first last year. We won volleyball after finishing 2nd last year and made a good run, but just finished short. We didn't place in the talent show but we had a great time changing the words to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under The Bridge." Made it to the semi-finals in football during with I hurt my hand, but we will talk about that later.


If you want to see our stroll videos here are the links:
2007- http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZ2wldUdwa4
2008- http://youtube.com/watch?v=UDuTLXqG0CE


Spring term:

Finished the term with a 3.73 GPA, so I was very happy about that. I took 20 credits so it was a lot of work and I was worn out by the end of the term. (Macroeconomics, International Business, Intro to Entrepreneurship, Intro to Finance, and Organizational Behavior.) My hardest class by far was my Management class, Intro to Entrepreneurship. I was selected group leader, so I had to make sure that each assignment flowed and was submitted on time. It also meant that I would be up till 2 AM every night before the assignments were due. We had to complete a Feasibility study for a Kinetic Cell Phone Battery. After 6 weeks of assignments ranging from presentation, elevator pitches, and 40 pages pages, our team was ranked first and we received As. Thank God. My favorite class was Macroeconomics thanks to my professor Maria Olivero. If you ever get a chance to take a class with her, do it.

The highlight of the term was on the softball field. Sig Ep with me at shortstop won the IFC Softball Championship for the first time ever. We finished in 2nd last year so it felt great beating both TKE and Pike each by one run on the same day to win the championship.

Break week:

So I went back home to Reading for the break week and decided to finally get my hand checked. During Greek Week, I jammed my right ring finger in the final down of our flag football game. It swelled up and I simply assumed that I jammed my finger. A week or two later when the swelling went down, I couldn't bend the tip of my finger. It didn't hurt and I had finals coming up, so I let it go until term break. Well when I got home, I got an X-ray and the results showed that I had fractured the top joint in my right ring finger. I went to an orthopedist to get an opinion and they sent me to a hand specialist. It was there that I found out that I also torn the tendon in my hand and would need immediate surgery that would take 4-6 months to rehab. So I had the surgery and will be spending summer term without my right hand... AWESOME!

Summer term:

So summer term has started. I only have 15 credits with classes only on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Even though I have a bum hand this term should be fine because none of my classes require much writing. My classes are interesting and the term looks to be a relaxing one. I looked at the classes I have left to graduate and I only have 11 classes left, let the countdown to graduation begin.

~352 days and counting

I'll tell you all how the rest of the term is, hopefully more often. Have a good one.

Back to school... to prove to Dad that I'm no fool!

Yesterday was my first day back in classes after Co-Op. It was a very uneventful day, which was amazing. I only had three hours of class and had large breaks in my day. I was able to watch some Opening Day baseball games and play soccer out on Buckley Turf. I feel asleep and missed the end of the game I was watching, but I was still happy because I actually have the ability to nap. As mentioned before, sleep was a commodity that I was lacking.

Anyway, I just finished my first Finance class. I think I will enjoy Finance because it is a mix of Accounting and Statistics. I wasn't a huge fan of STAT but I love Accounting so I think this will be a great class. I am about to head down to the dining hall before I have International Business. I will fill everyone in on all of my classes later.