So that was an insane couple of weeks

So the week before this one was crazy busy.  I had four tests, two papers, and a love poem.  The poem, in case  anyone's curious, was a class assignment, and I wrote it to an airplane.  I can even put it up here if anyone's interested.


Other than schoolwork, I haven't been up to a ton.  I got to go to a few basketball games, including the regional semi-final (Geneva won).  I've been trying to keep in shape by climbing a bit on the bouldering wall here on campus (pictures down below).  There really has not been a ton going on other than that.  Well, schoolwork too.

Here's me on part of the bouldering wall.

A friend of mine, Logan, negotiating another part of it.

Will working on this part.  Although this particular wall leans forward, many of the holds are tiny, making it every bit as difficult as the other parts.

Kyle going up, and just about to swing around and transition to the wall behind him.

Will and Kyle looking at it.  This part is very demanding - since it tilts back, most of your body weight is on your arms, making it very hard to stay on it very long.

Might as well show some pictures from one of the basketball games.

Nothing really to comment on.

The action is on the other side of the court now...  I kind of wish I could come up with something useful to say about the picture.

I gotta admit I like this picture - if you zoom in, you can see the ball in the air.  :D

So it wasn't just *one* snow day

We had no classes from 3:30 Tuesday afternoon to night classes Thursday.  Lots of free time.  *Lots.*  It gave me plenty of opportunity to relax, sleep in (until 11), play games, play in the snow, help dig out cars and sidewalks, and even get some schoolwork done.


Thankfully, we didn't get a ton more snow.  It was around 6 inches on top of the 20-something we already had, so it was a big, but at least it wasn't another 20.  I was talking with a man working with Physical Plant (the people that, among other things, handle snow removal), and he said they were running out of places to put it.  I don't doubt it in the slightest - there are about a half dozen really massive snow piles around campus, with the biggest one being about 20 feet tall...   maybe more.  One nice thing with the snow was that Student Activities sponsored a building competition to see what people would come up with.  Each dorm was supposed to get a team together and spend 2 hours building, and at the end, the dorm that won would get 15 free pizzas.  Don't know who won, but it wasn't my dorm.  :D  I'll get some pictures of that stuff up before long.


Well, I have several blisters on my hands from having fun over the last several days.  I spend 2 hours this week on the bouldering wall in the Pisgah office here at Geneva.  Basically, bouldering is like a rock climbing wall, only you go horizontally, not vertically.  You start on one part of the wall, and just work your way around.  By "go horizontally" I'm meaning the direction you travel, not the orientation of your body.  :D  I'm planning on doing around 2 hours a week for a while, since I need to do something for working out.  It seems to be pretty good for that.  I'll make sure to get some pictures of that too.  :D


So, the downside of having the break was that the work's been pushed over a little bit.  After looking at my schedule for next week, I realized that I have a Bible test on Monday, a Communications test on Tuesday, a Business Communications test on Wednesday, and a Quantitative Analysis test on Thursday.  I would appreciate a bit of prayer that I would do well and stay sane.  Both are kind of important to me.  :P


I have a humanities paper I need to write, so I'll get going.  I'll hopefully update before too long with some more pictures.

More snow?

Looks like we're gonna get hammered pretty hard.  We've gotten at least an inch in the last 45 minutes, and the school has canceled all classes tomorrow.  Guess I'll have more time to study for that Bible exam.  I'll make sure to get some more pictures of the new snow.  :D

Campus pictures from the snow

So, this morning, after finishing up my three classes, including a test that I think went very well, I decided to go around campus with my camera and see if I could get some good shots of some of the buildings.  Since some of my readers haven't been here before and those who have might not have seen how nice the campus looks with the amazing blanket of snow, I decided to post some of the pictures I took.  

Part of Old Main, the oldest and mainest building on campus.  Go figure, huh?

Northwood Hall.  This is where most of my business classes are.  It's named after Northwood, Ohio, which is where Geneva started.  It's also about 3 miles from my house.  :)

Another view of Old Main from a different side of the building.

The clock in roughly the middle of campus, with McKee Hall, a women's dorm, in the background.

The McCartney Library.  Really nice-looking building.  I spend a bit of time studying in there.

Ferncliffe House.  This building is mostly used for offices.

Pearce Hall.  Home sweet home for me - it's the freshman men's dorm.

Looking across the Beaver River valley to the hills on the other side.

This is looking down to the rugby field, at the snow mound I had pictures about before.  I found out - the actual term for a snow structure like this is a "quinzee."

So, that's it for the snow for now.  We're supposed to get several more inches in the next few days - assuming that happens, I'll definitely get some more pictures and put them up.  Hope you enjoyed the virtual campus tour!

Video from yesterday

This might work... for some reason, Blogger won't let me do their videos.

Edit: Got it working. Seems that Blogger automatically changed me over to the new editor, which doesn't support adding videos. The old one does. It maketh no sense. :P

SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!

We got something around 20 inches...  it's been amazing.  Most of campus was out playing yesterday, except for those that had to clean it all off.  I was outside for something like 5 or 6 hours, sledding, (attempting) snowball fighting, and taking pictures.  Here are a few.

The main sledding hill.

Part of campus.  You can see the partial tube we had gotten put in after many sled trips.  :D

Looking up at the hill we were using.

Why she was snowboarding in shorts, I still don't understand.

After the sledding was over, I went back inside and studied for a while.  Then, Jake called me to ask if I could come down to the rugby field to see something...

Down at the rugby field.

They made a snow mound!  This thing is around 5 feet tall, about 12-14 feet long, and maybe 10 feet wide.  It's pretty amazing.

Looking out from inside.

And here are the creators...

Another guy inside, to give some perspective.

And everyone inside.  It looks this way mainly because of how warm it was in there - it was, I'm guessing, mid-40's in there.  Compared to mid-20's outside.  :D

Just as the other group was leaving, another group of people that I know were sledding down the hill to the rugby field.  They loved the mound, so I took their picture inside.

That's it for now.  Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use Blogger's video service (hint hint, anyone that does...) and I can put up a couple videos of people sledding.