Less than 100 Days to Go!

It never fails to surprise me how fast the middle of the semester always comes! The past two weeks have been very busy for everyone at Stonehill with mid-terms. It always seems that papers, projects, and exams get scheduled right before spring break. For me, with all my English courses, this meant that I have had quite a few papers due. I made it through the two busy weeks, and now it is the beginning of spring break. I am home now for a couple days, but on Tuesday I am going with my boyfriend to Los Angeles to visit his sister! I have never been to California before, so I am so excited for my first spring break trip over my last Stonehill spring break! I'll be sure to take lots of pictures so I can share my trip with you when I am back on campus!

To return to the past couple weeks of the semester that have led up to spring break, I have been busy not only with work but busy with some really exciting big events too! Two weeks ago was the first of our senior class events: 100 Days! Throughout the spring semester, we have a countdown to graduation marked by 100 Days, 50 Days, and 25 Days, not to mention the last week full of events leading up to commencement! But I'm not ready to talk about commencement yet, so let me tell you about 100 Days! For the event, we brought the dueling pianos from Jake Ivory's, a piano bar in Boston, to campus. It was a great event! The two pianos mostly played together, and I was really impressed with the great variety of songs that they played. We had everything from traditional Piano Bar music, like Billy Joel's Piano Man, but we also had lots of today's popular songs, such as Lady Gaga! Here's a picture of some seniors singing along with the dueling pianos:

My favorite aspect of the event was to have all of the senior class together! Stonehill is a school where students from every class get to know students from other other class; some of my close friends are also seniors, but some of my close friends are also in other grades as well. We do not just form communities within our classes, but we build a strong community including all Stonehill students. So the kick-off senior event served to unite our class, and set the stage for the rest of our last semester together.

Some friends and I before heading over to the 100 Days event!

Hanging out with my suite-mates at 100 Days!

The other big event of the past couple of weeks was my cousin's wedding! I always love big family events, and I had a great time celebrating with my family. Here are the bride and groom, Liz and Mike, cutting their cake and looking very happy!

Here is a picture of all my cousins on the Charest side of my family, with my cousin Liz, the beautiful bride in the center:

That's it for now because I've got to get going on my packing for California! Happy Spring Break everyone!