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This weekend was chock full of fun activities. Friday night, I headed down to my hometown of West Chester, PA to celebrate my friend Kate’s 23rd birthday. It was an adventure being with all of my friends from school in a city other than Scranton, and it was nice to be at home, even if it was for about ten hours. On Saturday, my friend Brian, who is a junior in high school, came to visit me and take a look at the school. As I gave him a tour, I was surprisingly at a loss as to what to tell him. There are so many awesome things about Scranton that I did not even know where to start. I wanted to just say, look around you at the beautiful trees, our new building, and the students who say hi to each other as they pass each other on the commons. The construction of our new “grassy spot” is coming along, and it was cool to show him all of the new things that are popping up all over campus. The “grassy spot” is going to have an amphitheater in it, which will be awesome for classes to be held outside in the fall and spring seasons. I am sad that I will be missing that.
On Sunday, my roommate and my friends Red and Shauna, and I went to see the production of Godspell which was put on by Liva Arts Company. Liva Arts is run by students and they put on musicals which are directed by students, acted in by students, and produced by students. My friend Greg directed the musical, and had put his heart and soul into the production. He worked so hard, and he is basically so talented that I knew I would not want to miss a play that he put together. My friend Tony, also current president of the men’s crew team, played Jesus, so that was also a reason to attend. Tickets were only five dollars for a student, which makes it well worth the entertainment, seeing as how it costs more to get into a movie in the theater. All I have to say was that the play was AWESOME. The audience was really into everything that the students were doing in the stage, and I was definitely caught up with the stories being told and the people telling them. By the end, a lot of the people in the audience had tears in their eyes, and it was really amazing to think that my peers pulled the whole thing together.
This weekend was packed with fun adventures and activities, and I am happy to say that I was able to attend Godspell and show my friend around campus.
It has happened…since my last blog, the wonderful warm days have become not so random and spring has officially arrived at the University of Scranton. Since the last time that I wrote, campus has become a flurry of activity. From construction workers, student clubs, classes, and faculty, everyone seems to be aware that spring is here and the end of the semester is upon us. This has different implications for all of the above groups.
For the construction workers…they finally can stop working in the cold and can semi-enjoy the sun…as well as attempt to meet the deadline of finishing our nice, grassy area for graduation. For student clubs, various activities have been here and gone. Specifically the justice club had a sleep out for homeless awareness and a thirty hour fasting for hunger awareness. This is an annual event held every year, and all students, even those not participating can be affected by this event, just by being in touch with the students who are. Classes and faculty are affected in a great way for students. Faculty recognizes the “spring fever” that students have…because they have it as well…it seems to be something that you never really grow out of. To help cope with this sickness, some faculty hold class outside, which is an unexpected and welcome surprise to students.
For seniors, this is a sad but anticipated time. We have been waiting for the carefree spring of senior year, but at the same time, we recognize that this is our last Scranton spring together. Trying to fit everything we want to do into the next six weeks should be an adventure, and will definitely leave me with stories for the next few blogs. So keep reading…
Spring in Scranton has finally arrived…sort of. In Scranton, spring is…well, interesting. I say interesting for a few reasons. The first being the weather, which seemingly cannot figure out that it is past March 20th, and still wants to sleet and snow. There is nothing like a gorgeous day in Scranton, but in the beginning of the spring, these days are teases. It will be 60 degrees and sunny one day and we will have a snow day the next. This is quite frustrating to students who just want to sit out on the commons all day in the sun. When I complain about the weather, my sister Susan always says, “well that’s the beauty of Scranton.” Susan, who now lives in New Orleans, misses our crazy weather and our distinct change in seasons, and keeps telling me to enjoy it while it lasts, because pretty soon I’ll be in the real world.
Another fun thing about the spring, is the time that the students spend sitting out on the commons together. The commons is what we call the area right outside our student center. Last year, my friend Adam sat outside on the commons for so long, that he ended up with what we call a “commons tan,” which is basically really tan knees and face…very attractive. The commons is a huge part of the Scranton experience. Students barbeque, play games, do schoolwork, and just hangout. This year, new things will emerge from the spring. Since the building of our new student center, DeNaples, and the destruction of our old student center, Gunster, the commons have now been obliterated. Students will have to discover a new commons, where we can enjoy the randomly warm days that the spring in Scranton offers us. Hopefully, by the next blog, those randomly warm days won’t be so random, and we will be out on the new commons getting some “commons tans.”
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