Halloween Horror Nights XX

So to start off the Halloween weekend me and some of my pledge brothers went to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. I have personally gone to HHN the past couple years and it is honestly the best place to go and get scared. The detail and production of everything is so real; especially Universal has such a huge prop and costumes things to make the haunted houses and scare zones look so real. It was some of my friends' first time going there and they all had a blast. Unfortunately there was a pretty good amount of people so the lines were like 30-45 min waits or like 20. What was pretty cool was the fact they still had some rides open like The Mummy and Men in Black. The theme this year was pretty interesting; it was basically a reunion of all the previous years' themes. For example, on of the houses had 20 rooms that had each years' theme in it. That was definitely my favorite haunted house out of the whole place. Since it was a Thursday night that we went on, the park closed at 1Am which didn't give us enough time to make it to every haunted house but we made our way through it pretty good. It was pretty fortunate that we didn't have to drive back home to Tampa after HHN because we were all so pooped. So we decided to rent hotels a block away from Universal. Then the next night Bulls Club had a halloween party so I got to where a cool Lieutenant Dangle costume! I'd have to say my first Halloween was pretty sweet.

Midterm week

So I don't know if I was the only one who had a shit load of stuff to do this past week! It honestly felt like all my pledge brothers weren't cramming or doing last minute homework like I was. Since I normally procrastinate, I started to study monday. And this past week I had a Chemistry for today exam and Humanities exam. Luckily for chemistry I had gained a pretty good grasp on the knowledge that was taught to us for the exam. As for my humanities class though, as in a previous blog, it was ridiculous because my teacher is retarded. So we had to memorize all these stupid medieval, renaissance, and modern songs. On top of that we had to learn about theater and literature. So I had to upload all these unusual songs onto my ipod so I could study for the test by just walking around. Well when Thursday came along I took that test with a positive mentality and walked away with a positive mentality. Then right after I studied some more for my chemistry test. On Friday I think I raped my chem test so it helped start off for a good weekend. After this midterm week has passed I am so eager for this coming week to hurry up and get here because its going to be halloweeenn!!! I have this amazing Lieutenant Dangle costume from Reno 911 that I can't wait to wear. Plus I just got my haircut so I'll be looking more to the part than ever. I'm glad I finally figured out how to follow people.

Anchor Splash

So every year all the fraternities and sororities get together throughout multiple times in the year to throw these huge philanthropies that are charitable events to help raise money. Things like Anchor Splash, Putting on the Hits, Graffiti for Gehrig, and Octobreast are some of which help raise money for certain charities. Well the first philanthropy that was scheduled for fall semester was Anchor Splash which is Delta Gamma's, one of the sororities, big philanthropy of the semester which was for people who are less fortunate and have visual problems and the blind. Well me being pledge AKA phikeia, me and all my pledge brothers had to put on a routine along with all the other fraternities and sororities. Everyone's dance had to consist of a on-land routine and an in water synchronized swim. So we had 2 dance coaches who had been dancers for a while and started practice a week and half before. Our theme for the dance was the Twilight saga bologna and all Michael Jackson songs with some Deadmau5 to liven it up. It took me and my fellow phikeia 2 practices from 10PM-2AM to get the on land routine down. Then took us 4 practices from 10PM-2AM each time to get the synchronized swimming part down which included a lot of flips, flyers, and these cheer looking positions. On Sunday was the day of Anchor Splash so all the sororities and fraternities had to perform their routine in literally hundreds of people. My fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, got 3rd place in performance and 1st place overall which was a huge victory for us! After we were announced the winners all of our fraternity and coaches jumped in the water and went wild for a minute. Then I had to live down my glory and go to bed because I had stupid College Algebra in the morning.

homecoming week

This past week, October 4 to the 9th has been USF's twenty fourth annual homecoming! Every night there had been some scheduled event or festivity going on to get all us bulls involved. For a couple of the days out of homecoming week the school had set up this pretty legit carnival down the road from Greek village. Admission was free but you had to pay for all the rides; so unfortunately I didn't ride too many rides, but I still had a blast celebrating some school spirit. Aside from the carnival there was also a homecoming dance which was a fancy ball that was held in the Marshal Student Center. I didn't attend this ball mainly cause I didn't really feel like going and I had homework. But I heard the dance was formal which is nothing compared to my high school homecoming which wasn't really formal at all. Biggest part of homecoming is the school's big homecoming game, which was against Syracuse. In the perfect scenario the home team wins their homecoming game but sadly we lost our game today. In the blistering heat I had to witness us lose but the tailgate was really fun today because my fraternity had our alumni come out. Overall for this being my first college homecoming experience I must say it has been a good week and I can't wait till next year for our 25th annual homecoming which is going to be bigger and better for sure.

now that im legal

So some of you might not know, but I turned 18 Sunday!!! Now I'm finally legal and I can go do things that a couple days ago were restricted to me. I can now buy tobacco products and smoke tobacco products without no concerns. I can vote for elections which is something I've wanted to do for so long; I wished I could have voted in 2008 for the Obama election, but in two years I'll be able to vote for our president. Now that I'm legal I can get officially in trouble which is a bad thing because it was nice when I was under the age, how I wouldn't go to prison for something. Now I get in grown up trouble and can face time; so that is a big con to me being legal. On the plus side I can finally go out to the club or bar with my friends instead of having to ditch out because I was under the age. Over summer semester I was limited to me evenings because I wasn't 18 yet. Now that my birthday just passed I get to think about a present I want. And I've come to the conclusion that with me being 18 and all the only way to really feel the new number would be to jump out of a airplane. So I plan on going skydiving most likely somewhere in Tampa,FL just because the weather has been amazing here lately; otherwise I would do it on the east coast of FL. Also now that I'm legal and all I want to go to a strip club possibly, hookah bar, and gamble. Now that I'm legal I could have the time of my life whenever I go back to Europe which is going to happen in the next year because I have family I'd like to see over there. In Switzerland the drinking age is 18!

The arts

Okay so I'm currently taking a humanities class and I took one last year in high school and loved the class so I decided to take another one. To my surprise I hate this class! I don't mind learning about paintings, architecture, and music; I actually find it pretty interesting. But it is just the way my teacher teaches it frustrates the hell out of me. We barely have any quizzes and then she just gives us one huge exam. Exams usually aren't bad but when they are over 6 chapters and deal with some many little bits of information that need to be memorized let alone be able to tie together all the concepts and be able to analyze art. I like humanities just not the way its being taught. Basically an overload of information since the teacher is working on her thesis so shes already busy enough as it is. Although i don't like her teaching methods I still managed to rape on her exam by the use of extensive studying. One thing that this teacher has taught me is that the way people analyze art is seriously retarded. Just the way they describe the picture or the techniques used from an artist 100s of years ago seems unrealistic. I can't picture them having thought about the picture in such detail and emotion. Aside from the visual art aspect; we're starting to learn about music which is interesting because we are learning the old school music like medieval times which is interesting because I have no clue what they are saying but it sounds fancy. And just like before, the teacher is cramming information and songs to memorize already. Hopefully I do even better on this music part because I already can memorize songs pretty easily so hopefully my brain won't fail me for the exam in the near future.