I have been getting a bunch of emails from new freshmen and their parents. It’s awsome! I love it.

For those of you who are curious about greek life, it is amazing. I love my sisters so much, and the frat boys are a ton of fun to hang out with. I am still sad that I missed Tie Date with the ZBT’s. If you aren’t sure, come to rush week. See what the greeks are about, meet a few of us, ask a ton of questions, and see if it is you. Its the best way to learn about the greeks.

BSU is awsome too. A smaller group, not only for Black Students, who love BBQ’s and helping kids. We plan a bunch of activies for children each year, bring in guest speakers and have a ball at each meeting. I think we spend 75% of our time cracking jokes in meetings. Of course we get stuff done, but we have the most fun doing it. BSU is really laxed. I’m trying to grow it for next year and maybe have a few more BBQ’s and bands come in. The guys were talking about having a poetry night…. of course with a band at the end to dance the night away.

Remember, all incoming students and parents of new freshmen can email me at manderson5@email.lynn.edu

Ask me questions, its what I’m here for! I’ve already lived my freshmen year, made the mistakes, ask me the questions so you make less mistakes, spend less time fixing your mistakes, and spend more time enjoying being a freshmen at Lynn.

For anyone who wants to help us make it to our goal before the end of summer, click here!

This past weekend was relay for life. We raised so much money for it. We are only $8,000 away from our goal! Very exciting news. I believe that our schools goal is $35,000 this year. I must say, after all the hard work that was put into it, stressed out people every where the morning of, and all the preperation put into the event, it truelywas an amazing night!

All I have to say is, note to self, next year, do not pull all nighter before relay for life. I passed out shortly after midnight. I was sad that I got so tried I couldn’t stay up any longer because I was having so much fun. I did laps with my sisters, my friends, and classmates. Sold hand made handbags by Tri Sigma with my sisters, donated money towards Cristina’s events, bought two cheeseburgers troughout the night from Rob’s ZBT brothers, ran like a crazy person looking up cancer facts for Black Student Union for a Relay For Life event (I came so close to winning! Darn!), and who knows what else! I really just had a lot of fun, learned a ton of facts about cancer, raised money for the fight against cancer and had a ball doing it with some of the greatest people on Earth! Don’t think I didn’t see some Alumni out there as well! That was pretty cool to see past students coming back on campus to support something that they believe in.

I also have one big thank you for one of my sisters mom’s. Selby’s to be exact. Her mom spoke about her fight against cancer. It was very moving and it was wonderful to meet her. The sisters have been going crazy with excitment when we found out that Selby’s mom would be speaking. She did a great job with the video she made and a wonderful example of why Sigma Sigma Sigma picked the slogan, we are 48 reasons. Cancer touches us all.

I am hosting my first event this thursday! I’m excited but very nervous. I have so much to do and the list never seems to have a bottom! Soon as I think I’m getting close, three or four more things pop up on it! I could not do this for a living!

Anyway, I am bring in a speaker, Dorothy Davis to talk about her life and her job at the United Nations. I’m very excited to have her come to Lynn.

Check out the facebook page I created for the event, and if you are in the Boca area, drop by!

My room is a mess right now. I have been hunting for my BSU shirt which is no where to be found. Err. So yes, now my room is a mess and there are shirts covering the floor. Where is that stupid shirt? I don’t know how I keep losing so many shirts in this tiny room!

Today has been a seriously busy day. I am just now slowing down at 10:23pm. Not a normal day for me. I want to say congrats to Tauran (who is one of my sisters) for her efforts in the Monopoly game tonight. Awsome turn out! Just, did we have enough to break a world record? That, I still do not know, but will find out so I can tell the world! lol. It was a lot of fun and I met a guy named JD who is going to be a Lynn  Blogger soon. I was shocked, to meet him but it was a lot of fun getting to know him. Here’s hoping to see him as one of our new bloggers in the next couple of weeks!

So I am doing a ton of stuff for Black  Student Union that needs to be done right away which is keeping me very busy. I don’t know how I am going to get everything I need to get done tomorrow. Holiday season is the worst time. There are never enough hours before a break! Spring break starts March 1st.

Uh oh, my stomach is empty. I better go get some food before I go to bed. Plus, I have a lot to do before I can even get to bed!

A lot of questions lately, huh?

Today, everyone has been acting silly. Maybe its something in the food? Gene and Nicole were acting crazy in the line at dinner, and Samara was as random as ever. Eddie came out of know where! It was nice of him to join us for dinner. I am so lazy and tired today. Oh well, can’t be lazy all night long, I have work to do!

I’m so proud of myself, I got some paper work in today which I am hoping goes through and I get the funding for an event that I would like to host at the end of the month for BSU.

*looks at clock* An hour left until Tri Sigma study hall! I think I will work on English tonight.

Freshmen 101 tip: When everyone is acting crazy around school, eat out. lol. Just joking….

How is it when I need to find Sam, I don’t see him  for days, but soon as I get my answer, he pops up! I swear he knows when I am looking for him for Black Student Union  stuff!

I just finished emailing him all these questions and got half the answers and then he pops up! Of course! lol. And of course  I had given up on finding him so I forgot half the stuff I needed to ask him! Life is funny.

Oh and there seems to be a death storm headed out way.Great. The sky looks really dark and scary on one side and the other all nice and sunny. Florida!

This week has been pretty good. It has been full of fun and exciting new memories. I will start with the KAT program earlier in the week, a comedian named Pete Holmes. He was funny and really got the crowd involved. Sadly though, us in the back got picked on too. Hehe. Cristina and Dee were trying to hide but it didn’t work, he still would comment on stuff we were doing. I want to look up some more of his work.

Hmm… what else? I had a BSU meeting on wensday. Always fun to see my boss rushing by the door and turn to look into the room and make a face at me. I ran out of the meeting to explain to Maria why I wasn’t at work. She’s so cool and laid back. We were joking around for a few more minutes when I realized that I had just run out of a meeting. Oops. Poor Sam was covered on all sides but a bunch of girls. The guy can’t get a break! BSU girls seem to pick on him once we out number him a good 3 to 1. He’s a good sport, and a hard working president so its all good.

Now last night! That was a wild night! I thought the last basketball game I went to go see was intense! This one went into over time. I keep missing the girls games! Why must they be at the same time as work and meetings??? The guys played hard, they were fighting to stay in the game. The buzzer went off and it was tied. Five extra minutes were added to the clock and Lynn University was going mad! Once again, number 4 impressed me with his three pointers. Number 34 is one of my favorite players, he doesn’t just fall, he slides across the court. The game was so close, we lost by a few points but the team really shouldn’t be down, it was a long and hard game. They were amazing, and there were plenty of people cheering them on!

Oh and our dance and cheer teams. I may be more in favor of the dance team because so many of my sisters are on it, but they are both pretty good. I know a lot of the girls on the teams so its a lot of fun watching them do what they are good at, bringing out school spirit!

I think baseball starts this week… this could get interesting!

Good luck Knights! Fantastic game last night. And to the guys on the team, numbers, 3,4,5, 34, and 50. You guys were great! I really need to find out your names. A little help Gene? *laughs*

The Gala was wonderful. Cristina kept calling me every few minutes to see if I was ready, and half the time, I was in the middle of doing something. I almost burnt my hair because I was trying to get to the phone.

Rob took forever to get to the buses. Cristina was calling him and grumpy until he showed up out of nowhere and freaked us out.

The bus ride sucked. There were these two couples in the back making all kinds of noise and being stupid.

Cristina was wearing a blue and black dress for the Gala, and I picked an all black dress.

So we walk in, and there are two lines, one for under 21 and 21 and up so they could get a band for drinks.

The food was ok, not the greatest, but it sure beat the food in the caf so it was all good. They didn’t start until the band started playing.

I had met this guy named Matt before we were allowed inside the hall, and he comes up to me soon as the second song starts and informs me that I owed him a dance.

Dancing all night with my sisters, my friends, and some of my very goofy classmates made the night awesome. No one knows how to party harder than the greeks! Soon as they put on we are family, there was a glob of Tri Sigma’s and ZBT’s. Thats one way to get a bunch of girls jumping in heels. We were singing at the top of our lungs.

A Lynn student was asked to play the drums on stage, I think his name was Eric. It was awesome to see one of our own rocking out on stage, having a good time. We were cheering him on and dancing. He did a great job and blew some of his friends mind away. The whole bus ride back he was calling up every one he knew and telling them about it. THE WHOLE RIDE BACK. lol. “You won’t believe what Eric did! He can play the drums! I’m serious! It was great!”

I got a chance to build a closer relationship with my friend Dee. We talked that night a lot and I learned that she is a great listener when you need one, plus she gives great advice.

For the song “This is how we do it” seeing as the song is so old, it was awesome to see all these people still singing every word and jumping like we were all back in the late 80’s early 90’s. I almost felt like I was being sucked back in time for a few minutes. BSU some how found itself to the middle of the dance floor hopping up and down. Who the heck new that Sam could jump so damn high???

By the end of the night, we were all having so much fun dancing, that we started asking for another song. It soon became a chant of “One more song.” One of the back up singers randomly walks to the edge of the stage, starts singing Sauja boy and starts doing the dance while singing. Haha. That is how we ended our night!