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.