Open House

Hello Everyone,

For those of you who were able to make it to open house, I hope you enjoyed Mercyhurst College. There are so many exciting things happening here and I can only hope for you to be a part of them.

First and foremost, I would like to congratulate our Lakers Football Team who defeated 3rd ranked California State 31-21 this afternoon. GOOD JOB BOYS!!!

Next, I would like to give a shout out to all of you who I gave a campus tour to today. I hope that I was able to prepare you a little better to make a decision about Mercyhurst. As I said on the tour, please feel free to contact me at anytime: jpudli08@lakers.mercyhurst.edu. Best of luck with your college decisions.

That's it! I'm on RA duty tonight so I'm going to sneak off campus for a while before I'm stuck here for the night.

Peace,
Thanks for reading,
Joe

Fall Break

So, while I am not sure that this falls into the whole "academics" or the "extracurricular" category singularly, I feel as though this is an important part of the whole fall calendar... FALL BREAK!!!

I am currently enjoying beautiful Chicago and my beautiful girly-friend. It is really nice and cool to be in a big city. There is a lot to do and many people to meet, but it always makes me miss the quiet, friendly, and safe Mercyhurst campus. Though Chicago is a great place to visit, it is just such a contrast, which makes me believe that this was a great Fall Break destination, as in it makes me appreciate what I already have.

My girlfriend goes to DePaul University, which is where I am staying. It seems like a very exciting place, but its just too big for me. It's too big in the sense that there are too many people who probably will never meet everyone and I would offer a guess that they are all fighting for the same opportunities.

I remain so blessed at Mercyhurst because of everything that I am able to do and be involved in. I love my girlfriend and love that she's happy here, but I can just see how she gets stuck in her program and is unable to expand too far from there.

Mercyhurst has a nice campus with nice people and nice buildings, world class programs and world class professors... its the best of the suburbs and cities, and is small, but not too small to not have resourses.

I love Mercyhurst and I hope some of you will too.

Thanks for reading,
Joe

Midterms are over

I just wanted to check back in and let you know how the week turned out. Today ended up being a BEAUTIFUL day. While I finished my tests yesterday, I just had a paper to turn in before I was free, but what made it even better was the fact that that SUN was out ALL DAY. Now this is significant simply because it has rained all week and has been utterly miserable... the sun somehow makes everything better.

I know this was all random and off the hinge, but I'm alright with that. It is such a beautiful night that I am going to go for a beautiful night jog.

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

Thanks for reading,
Joe

Midterm

Midterms, Midterms, Midterms.

This is one of the two weeks from hell (I think I can say that). This week is the week that makes you realize what has been being fed to you for the last 5 weeks. There are papers, tests, and most of all... STRESS.

Beyond the normalities of life... meaning all of the things that I am involved in beyond the stress of academics, continue throughout this week. All of clubs, work, and meetings, plus the addition of RA duty, papers and exams make for a very stressful week.

Needless to say, I will be very thankful for this week to be over.

Thanks for reading,
Joe