Eventful Thursdays

Today was a very eventful day at Elmira College. Elmira occasionally has representatives from different graduate school come to recruit undergraduate students for their programs. At 12:30, I met with a representative from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester in the campus center to discuss my post graduation plans and the programs and opportunities at Simon. Although the meeting was only twenty minutes long due to the amount of students that requested a meeting, I was able to submit my resume, learn first hand what student life is like at Simon, and I received information packets to review on my own time. Tonight, the Elmira College Dining Center set up an '80's themed dinner for students. They decorated the entire upper level of the campus center with memorabilia from the 1980's including gaudy fabrics and patterns, bright balloons and tablecloths, pacman cakes and cookies, and they were playing popular movies and music from the '80's. They even had a DJ on a stage with a runway and all of the dining staff dressed up in outfits and hairstyles from the '80's including leg warms, side-ponytails, crimped hair, off the shoulder t-shirts, and jean jackets with buttons. They served pineapple splices, chips and bean dip, ham, lasagna, ziti, rolls and butter, and chicken dumplings, and a potato skin bar, all free of charge for the attending students.

They also had a variety of candy and treats on each table and tinsel wigs, rubber spike jewelry, plastic sunglasses, and mesh gloves for students who wanted to fit into the '80's setting. Also tonight held in the Speidel Gymnasium was Hoops Hysteria. Hoops Hysteria is an event to showcase our school's cheer leading teams and basketball teams in an informal, entertaining environment. There was a slam dunk challenge for the men's basketball team in which they competed against each other the be the slam dunk champion by performing outrageous stunts in addition to slam dunks.
They had one teammate pass the ball from across the gym to set up for the dunk, spun in an 180 degree turn before dunking, and jumped over obstacles and people as they were dunking. At on point, they had one teammate on all fours acting as a leaping platform towards the hoop with our school mascot, the Eagle, as an obstacle to leap over. Throughout the event, they read off raffle tickets for prizes including ipod touches, flat screen televisions, a futon, and tickets to a Bills game. The event was a short and sweet break from homework and it was very fun to watch and be with friends. I'm getting sad as events like these pass and my time left at Elmira grows closer and closer to the end, but I'm enjoying every minute of them and I'm creating a lot of great memories in my final year here.