Alpha Xi Delta

Since I've been at Iowa, I have been looking to make new friends and get involved. So my friend Andrea and I have been going to check out sororities. I found a few that I was interested and I was offered a bid to my favorite... Alpha Xi Delta! I pledged on Monday night so I am now official! We have our first event tonight, a black and orange party.

I never thought I would have the opportunity to get into a sorority as a junior transfer student, but all of the sororities were so nice and really thought it was cool I was looking to pledge as a junior.

So the moral of the story is... transfer students can join any group at anytime, you just have to put yourself out there and go for it!

Here is a photo of me and the others who pledged with me!

Homecoming weekend approaches...

With all of the festivities going on this week/weekend for Homecoming I am feeling a bit stressed! I have a HUGE test in a "critical for my major" class next week. I will have to make sure I sit down and get some studying done this weekend because it will be easy to get carried away in all of the festivities!

That's a major adjustment I had to make from Kirkwood to Iowa. There are so many things going on here that it would be easy to just be out and about all of the time and not take sufficient time to study. Luckily for me, I have yet to experience many problems with this.

If any of you Eagles aren't busy this weekend you should come down to the UofI for the parade (5:45 on Friday evening) followed by the announcement of King and Queen, then a concert! Rooney will be performing, which I am totally excited about. I changed one of my ringtones to them in order to get psyched for the show!

Here is a link with all of the week's festivities on it... enjoy and GO HAWKS!

Natalie

the best thing about being a HAWKEYE!

Hey everyone! For those of you who didn't know... this past weekend was the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game! It was amazing. I've lived in Cedar Rapids all my life, so I've been in Iowa City many times during my 21 years. I have NEVER seen Iowa City in the state it was in after we won! If you didn't catch the game, here's what you missed...

My first week at Iowa... many lessons learned.

I had a whirlwind week at Iowa. After I finally figued out the bus routes, I was able to find all of my classes without any problems. My classes are all really close together. I guess that was a misconception that I had about the U of I. I thought that I would be walking MILES inbetween classes and that's not so. It's not as close as all of Kirkwood's classes were, but for a big university, it's not bad at all! Just make a note to buy a good pair of tennies when you transfer! :)

I had some trouble the first week with my schedule. I was sent about three different places to get help and it seemed like no one wanted to help. I learned this week that if you don't look out for yourself at a big school like Iowa, you WILL slip through the cracks. Don't let it happen. If you need help, persist because that's the only way you will be able to get out in a decent ammount of time. I did get really frustrated because at Kirkwood I could just go to advising and here it seems like there are about a million places you have to go.

BUT aside from all of the craziness... there was a football game this weekend! My first time in the student section and it was awesome! Make sure you buy season tickets at least one year at Iowa, because Iowa fans are like none-other!

Okay, enough ranting... here are some pics!


Lauren, Me and Megan...current Hawkeyes and former Eagles!


GO HAWKS!

Just the beginning...

So, I've been getting everything situated to start at Iowa next week! I bought my books, my season football tickets (important to do as a transfer from Kwood because we had no football team!) and I have completely moved into my apartment.

My roommate Ashley and I had a bunch of our Kirkwood friends to our new apartment in Iowa City. I'll share those pictures at the end!

I have a few concerns entering my first day at the U of I. I am pretty concerned about riding the Cambus! I hope I can figure it out and I don't end up at the complete other side of town! I am also a little concerned about finding my classes. Iowa's classes are so spread out, unlike Kirkwood's, which are all in one general location.

I will keep you all posted on how it goes! Wish me luck!

Now for the photos...


A shot of the new apartment!


Ashley (my roomate and current Kirkwood Iowa City student) and I


Current and former members of the Communique (Kirkwood's student newspaper)


Sean and I. Sean was the A and E and Feature editor of the Communique last semester.

the move...

I moved into my apartment on Sunday, Aug. 2. It was very stressful! I got things pretty well set up, but I am still living at home until my friends go back to their respective colleges. I will post some photos of the apartment when I get some, but for now I just have a picture of my best friend and I assembling a TV stand for my room. Projects like that are not exactly our thing... so we felt pretty proud!

One of those moments...

Last night something happened that restored my faith in fairytales.

My team has been playing in the state softball tournament this week. We played our first round game last night because of rain on Wednesday night. We fell behind early, and in the top of the seventh inning, we were down 2-1. We ended up tieing it up at 2-2. But with two outs, our third baseman Alex came up to bat with the bases loaded. She lauched the first pitch over the centerfield fence. A grandslam. Softball players are lucky enough to hit grandslams in the regular season, but in the post season- it's almost unheard of. The shot put us up for good, 6-2.

The girls went crazy, it was such a great moment. I wish I could re-live it over and over again. To see the look on the girls' faces, to watch the fans, to watch the opposing team.

This photo does not do the moment any justice, but it's all i've got! :)