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!