I hate weather

Today it sleeted, then hailed, and now it's snowing. The wind chill is pretty bitter too. Last night I went to a meeting of the Cultural Consortium. The student groups on campus are divded into like 6 (I'm guessing) consortiums, and Step About Boston, my dance club, is in the cultural one (although I think we should be in the performance consortium because although we started as an Irish culture club, all we do is dance). Anyway, every club has to send a rep to the consortium meetings, and I'm that rep. We talked a whole lot about collaborative events being planned for this semester. The International Students Consortium (which isn't a technical consortium, just a club) is having a benefit concert to aid Pakistani relief efforts, and all the cultural clubs pretty much agreed to help them sell tickets and publicize the event. They've got some ambassador coming to speak at it, too, so I'm impressed. Anyway, I ramble. Tonight I have the first of my weekly Tri Delta meetings. I don't actually go to the full chapter meetings, which are on Sundays, just the new member ones. There's only like 11 of us, and the meeting's only half an hour long, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Oh, so Step About Boston now has a website: Step About Boston There's not a whole lot on it, but in the gallery section you can download a video of us dancing last semester. The sound is about a second ahead of the video, but it still looks pretty cool. I'm the one in the second set of dancers all the way on the left (I'm cut out of the shot during much of it)

Snow, Tri Delts, and lots of reading

Well we had a big snowfall a couple of days ago, nothing compared to the thunder blizzard of December, but still. My snow boots came conveniently after I walked through the snow all day and my become completely soaked through with ice water. It's supposed to get up to 50 this week, so hopefully all the snow will melt.

So I pledged last night to Tri Delta, after 5 long days of sorority recruitment. It's one of the smaller sororities on campus, only about 60 members, but I like that. It's actually the biggest sorority on the national level, and we are the Alpha chapter (AKA the founding one). They plan a ton of events throughout the semester, but all of them are optional, which is nice, because I tend to have a busy schedule.

Speaking of schedules, my only Tuesday and Thursday class schedule leaves a huge amount of reading for Wednesdays. I guess that's alright though, I've got nothing else to do. Ryan and I ate $5.95 lunch buffet at Bombay Cafe today and it was really good. Kind of a small selection, but authentic, and great nan! For 6 bucks a piece, nothing much else can top that around here.

Well it's time to return to my reading, which I am slowly hacking my way through.

Spring is here.. sorta

So I've completed one week of the new semester. I only have classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but those days are pretty packed. My classes all seem very interesting, although one of teachers seems a little erratic and is difficult to follow.

It's was about 55 degrees and sunny today. I went outside with no jacket! It's supposed to snow on Sunday though, so I'm trying not to get too excited. I had my first night of sorority recruitment tonight, which lasted... 7 hours! Unbelievable. There was a lot of down time too, so it definitely could have run smoother. The sororities seemed mostly pretty cool, with a couple of exceptions. Most girls seemed pretty intelligent, but there were definitely some stereotypes there too. Anyway, we'll see what happens the rest of the weekend.

Okay nothing more to say.. I'll be sure to write if anything important happens tomorrow at recruitment.