As kids we thought naps were worthless, we wanted to stay up late, and go do whatever we wanted. We thought that once we were adults (I mean how much of adults are we really at 19?) we would go travel the world, be in charge of everything about our lives, and watch PG13 movies past 10 o’clock at night. Well now we are dependent on naps, and liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiterally cannot function without them.

In high school, I thought my older friends in college were giant babies for complaining about 9AM and 10AM classes. After all, in high school we start at 7:50AM. Ha of course you don’t think about all the late nights doing work and studying that pile up and cause a 9AM class to feel like 5AM. A nap is nothing more than the sweetest taste of bliss on a Thursday afternoon.

Naps, naps, naps, naps, naps, naps… take them!

This weekend Phi Gamma Delta traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to have our Purple Garter Formal at the Galt Hotel. A three hour ride of my date dominating the radio (even though it was her car), cloudy skies, dull conversations, and the experience of a driver with a led foot and no respect for the speed limit. Just kidding though, the conversations weren’t dull.

Our first night in Louisville another brother in the house and our dates went to a nice brewery restaurant a few blocks away from the hotel. A very excellent restaurant where a poor college student can spend a fortune ($10) on a nice veggie burger and atmosphere. But just remember that if you tip your waitress in three dollar bills and two dollars in assorted coins, your fellow companions will think you’re a cheap butt.

One of the coolest things about being in FIJI is our vast budget for our two formals over both semesters, and the niceness of rooms and hotel each of us gets. It’s fun to be in college, and especially in a fraternity!

One thing my mother was probably most worried about before/while I’m still at Wabash is cleanliness. That woman is just a germaphobe in general, but it is also no secret that college-age-men are not the cleanest of specimens. So naturally after a very short period of time (about 5 minutes after waking up) our rooms tend to get messy, as in hoarders messy. I can only say the mess is not that bad, and most people tend to clean up to some degree throughout the week. Of course some people also have so many articles of clothing they just wear their closet before doing laundry. All in all though, Wabash is a fairly clean place, especially Fiji.

The past couple days have “warmed up” (it is 40 degrees half the time), and Wabash Track and Field has claimed yet another North Coast Athletic Conference title with a score over 200 points. Now outdoor season is starting up and it is not necessary to have to wear four layers of clothing to run outside. Which I don’t know much about since I was injured all this winter, and the past four years I’ve been on the swim team instead of running in the winter.

I’m looking forward to this Spring, and all the running, meets, shirtless weather, and whistles from Crawfordsvillians(?) it has to offer. In the Fall I was able to have a PR in my 3200 meter time during a cross country time trial (TT) by 27 seconds, and while that is not a race distance in college I can’t wait to see how I improve under Coach Busch again. Also, I want to give George Alverson ’17 a little shout out for his 2 second negative split on those repeat 400s yesterday. Boy’s a baller when he gets over shock;)

It has been far TOO LONG since my last blog. Partially due to midterms and all my studying around that, and partially due to a lack of working computer once I came home for Spring Break. A quick tip to readers is to never put your laptop and charger in your friend’s bag because there is no room in yours. Because once they leave and live three hours away it takes a while to get it back.

Midterms were an interesting week of studying and testing, but it was altogether doable. Now it is Spring Break and it is time to sit back and relax… and keep studying. This break is also going to be involved with lots of summer job applications, snow plowing, and reading. Lots and lots of reading.