The Calm Before the Storm

Hey Guys!

Well it's Thursday, which means the end of the week is in sight and some much needed days of relaxation are almost here. This week hasn't been too bad work wise because a lot of professors have chosen to take this time to review what has been covered because it's that time of the year when midterms are just around the corner. I can't believe that we are pretty much half way through the semester, which means I'm only another half a semester away until senior year. It's a crazy thought, and it all feels like it has gone by in the blink of an eye...

Thankfully, there are still a couple of months before I have to actually call myself a senior. What's even better is that this weekend is looking to be a great sports weekend for Boston College to help get my mind off the work that needs to be done. Saturday afternoon is tip off for BC Men's Basketball versus University of North Carolina. Conte Forum is going to be loud and rowdy around 12:00pm in a couple of days with a bunch of screaming Eagles rocking their Superfan shirts and cheering on the basketball team. School spirit is a huge part of being a BC student, and it's actually pretty cool seeing all of your classmates wearing their own custom Superfan shirt (a new slogan is tagged on the back of the Superfan shirts for each new class year; 2011: For Here All Are One) and screaming BC fight songs....and without question will include "Shipping up to Boston" and " For Boston". It's almost entertaining enough to help me forget that I have a mound of work awaiting to be completed before the weekend is up. It's not that bad though, at least when the next week is over it'll be Spring Break!

This Spring Break I've decided to partake in a pretty cool program BC offers called Appalachia Volunteers. Appalachia is a program that is committed to working with the poverty stricken population of the United States. For the entire week an enormous amount of BC students who signed up gets split into smaller groups and are assigned a job sites throughout the US to help out with. It could be a Habitat for Humanity site in North Carolina or Bethlem Farm in West Virginia where I'm off to. I'm probably not doing this program justice so if you want to read up on it just click here!

All right, looks like it's time to get to class.

Till next time,
Juan