It’s. On.
Sun, Quadstock, Graduation, Soiree, Toast, Streak, Gallon Challenge, and all of the wonderful activities that I get to be a part of as a senior…I am ready for you!
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Seattle University Wins National Award
Congratulations are in order today as Seattle University has won a major national award for their involvement in community service.
…2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Award, the highest recognition the federal government gives to a college or university for commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
I’m a proud student this morning especially since this goes hand-in-hand with Seattle University being named a “Making a Difference.” college last week.
To read the full article, click here.
Campfire OK @ KSUB
At the start of this school year, Seattle University’s KSUB radio station started hosting these in-studio shows bringing in local and even some touring acts to perform on Friday nights for the students at no cost. It’s quite a deal actually and pretty much a good time. I’ve only been to one other show besides Campfire OK last night, but at both times I’ve had positive experiences. What’s great about these shows happening in KSUB is that if you can’t make it, you can stream it online.
I absolutely adore the members of Campfire OK. I think in total, I’ve probably seen them perform four times now, but I could never get tired of listening to their music or watching them perform. They bring about this positive energy to every performance and enjoy interacting with their fans every time. They truly are just just a joy to be around. Below are two of my videos that I recorded from last night. The first one is a song not on their record, but was featured in their Oddfellows spontaneous performance video. You can find it online if you YouTube it! The second is the lovely Miss Melodie Knight singing a French lullaby that her own mother used to sing to her.
Making a Difference at Seattle University
Congratulations Seattle University!
My college just made it on Huffington Post’ list of Making a Difference Colleges and I couldn’t be more proud. I’ve never actually described Seattle University to anyone before as a college where you can make a difference at, but it is completely true. In fact, that’s probably what I’ll tell everyone now who asks. I write about this all the time in posts and as you’ve seen in guest posts, I go to school with some amazing people. I would not have been able to achieve everything that I have done here had I gone to another college and I was very close to doing that. My previous dream school catered to over 40,000 undergraduates. There, I would have been just another wandering student, but that’s just not the case at Seattle University so I am very grateful to be a part of this community.
Congrats SU!
Boom.
We. So. Excited.
In the News…
Fashion
- Supermodel Agyness Deyn came forward earlier this week to announce that she is 29-years old, which is six years older than the age stated on her CV. [Source]
- Stefano Pilati has “left the YSL building.” Pilati has been the creative director over at YSL since 2004. [Source]
- Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast is designing a line for Urban Outfitters. [Source]
Music
- Glee’s Idina Menzel will be going on tour. [Source]
- Warner Music has launched a YouTube channel. [Source]
Movies
- Despicable Me 2 teaser trailer
- Emma Watson will star in Sofia Coppola’s new film titled, “The Bling Ring” about a group of fashion-obsessed teenagers who break into the homes of celebrities and eventually get caught. It’s inspired by a true story…and Lifetime already did it…last year. [Source]
Television
- Lindsay will make her 239479th comeback this weekend when she hosts Saturday Night Live.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt turned her Lifetime movie, The Client List into Lifetime television series, The Client List. [Source]
- Jessica Lange will be returning for American Horror Story in the fall, but will not be reprising her character from the first season. Zachary Quinto will also be back. [Source] [Source]
- Bristol Palin is getting a docuseries on Lifetime. “This show will reveal the real Bristol Palin and her journey as a daughter, a mother and a young woman making her way in the world.” Um…what?!
- Meet the newest contestants for Dancing With the Stars. [Source]
- Casting has begun for the new CW Sex and the City prequel pilot, The Carrie Diaries, and it looks like AnnaSophia Robb will play a young Carrie. [Source]
- Oprah Winfrey will interview the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s daughter Bobbi Kristina exclusively, which will air on Sunday, March 11th at 9PM on OWN. [Source]
Seattle
- Top Pot Doughnuts are headed to Bellevue Square. [Source]
- Capitol Hill’s Molly Moon’s is taking over the old Flora & Henri shop to create a Willy Wonka-esque “kitchen on display” that will highlight their specialty ice cream and signature cones being made. The space is set to open in the summer. [Source]
- Skillet will call the Seattle Center home. [Source]
- EMP’s Sound Off! finals are tomorrow night and we’ve got a Seattle University band in the running: Feet. Check out the rest of the acts here. I like these guys a lot!
Other
- Jan Berenstain passed away this week at 88. This one was my favorite because I went through a phase as a kid where I loved seeing pictures of illustrated food/candy. I kid you not, another one of my favorite books was a children’s book on the affects of diabetes.
- Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are now engaged! The couple have been dating for over a year. [Source]
- Ke$ha turned 25 and Justin Bieber turned 18 this week.
- US Weekly shows the evolution of Lindsay Lohan’s face and it ain’t pretty. [Source]
- Lea Michele and Cory Monteith – romantically involved? US Weekly believes so. [Source]
- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have announced the birth of their newborn son, Samuel Garner Affleck. [Source]
- …and Snooki is preggers. [Source]
- Lamar Odom has been dropped by the Dallas Mavericks and has been sent down to the NBA Development League. OH NO!! POOR LAM LAM :( [Source]
- Actress Kaley Cuoco has called off her engagement to Josh Resnik. [Source]
- Natalie Portman had a secret wedding and is already married to Benjamin Millipied. [Source]
Review: On My Block Fashion Show
Last night, I was invited by the Fashion Club of Seattle University to attend their annual fashion show and was absolutely blown away by the entire production. This was the fifth year that they were hosting the fashion show so it has been around since before I arrived at Seattle University, but believe it or not – this was the first time I have ever attended. For someone who writes fashion posts on the daily, you would think otherwise. In my last year, I have sort of made it my goal to attend some of Seattle University’s biggest events and I was thrilled to be asked to review this one. I have never been a part of fashion club, but I do have a few ties to it and am more than impressed by all of the work that has been put into this show.
This year’s event was in support of a non-profit organization called “Dress For Success,” which provides underprivileged women with suits for interviews and tips on developing their career. The show’s theme was “Two Natures at War” and featured clothing from a number of retailers and my two favorites Zebra Club and VueSociety. Overall the whole experience was just wonderful. I had a great time and was so proud to see my dear friend Vicky (pictured above) open AND close the show. The girl was slayin’ it. What I also love about the fashion industry is its ties to music. The music, provided by Ben Garrison, was complimentary to the presentation of the clothes last night. In fact, I loved it so much that I tried to Spotify all of the songs featured when I got home. Personally I have always felt that music has inspired a large part of my wardrobe so it was refreshing to be able to see that last night.
Before I get into some of the photos, I would also like to give a shout out to two wonderful ladies who walked in the show last night and who have blogs of their own that I adore. Jessie Carbullido and Rayann Onzuka are two women on campus who exude incredible style and in my opinion, stand out as being fashion leaders at Seattle University.
Click the cut below for more photos from the show!
Work With Me, Mentee
Hello readers!
If any of you have been wondering why I haven’t been as present on the blog this week, it is because I have been slaving away on one of my final projects for the quarter. This end of the quarter type project w/ a paper is one of the last projects I will ever have to create and present in college. It’s all very emotional. I recognized that this opportunity to create something that was 100% me was rare and knowing that, I wanted to put forth my hard work to design something that I could be proud of. From here on out, it’s all group projects and in those instances it becomes a little bit difficult to make sure that everyone has their spin on things.
The prompt had me research what management students could do with a management degree and asked me to propose a new idea that would get management students to become more excited in researching their possibilities.
The layout of my board and chalk writing was inspired by the lovely and talented Bri Emery – founder of Design Love Fest I also tweeted a picture this morning of my posterboard to Bri…
This basically made my day. Click the cut for more images of my poster board!
I’ve Got Funny Friends
When I think about my friends at other universities, I constantly wonder what their lives are like and who they have in their lives. I feel pretty special knowing that I go to school and am friends with some unique individuals. This past weekend, a group of them got together to make a parody music video of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” The original version features Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Ashley Tisdale and a few others that I just couldn’t remember. I think I prefer my friends’ version though.
Also, while we’re on the topic of friends, I remembered that Erin and Kiki had made this video back in December in an attempt to meet one of Ellen’s writers, Amy. Unfortunately, they never got on the show like they had hoped for, but Amy did tweet Erin back.
Baby steps.
And since we’re on the topic of YouTube videos…allow me to bring this back to all of y’all!
I know there are multiple versions of this, but this is the first one I ever saw and I remember even back then that this video had left such an impact on me that I wanted to recreate my own version. I kid you not, there is actually a photograph of my friend and I posing with a gallon of milk and a box of cheerios taken by my parents, but you’re never going to see that. The things I did as a kid teenager…
Where are these two UC Berkeley guys now?
Truth:
Heard Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” in my school’s cafe this evening. Well, better her than Chris Brown I guess.
Currently watching her perform on Jimmy Kimmel.
What Seattle University Students Were Doing With Their Sunday Night:
It’s days like these when I can look back on my time here and really appreciate being at Seattle University. In addition to spending my morning/afternoon when some of the loveliest people I know, I was able to come home to yet another Seattle University “inside jokes” type of a page. A couple weeks ago, I reported that there were some new Twitter accounts popping up related to SUgirlproblems and quotes heard around the campus, but it looks like a new page has come into play and it is basically taking over. Created on Facebook, Seattle U Memes is a collaborative project that started tonight and has already acquired 482 fans in just a few hours. Not only are these memes true, but they’re actually pretty funny and not just poking at the obvious about us being d1 now or a Jesuit school. So why is this site more successful than the Twitter accounts? Here’s my guess: first off, everyone has a Facebook while not everyone has a Twitter yet. Another reason would be because those Twitter accounts are run by certain people whereas this page allows for any student to post leaving it open ad available to everyone to participate in. Here are just a few of my favorites below:
Seattle U Gets Snarky
I was perusing the Twitter-verse the other night when a couple of recommendations on the right-hand side caught my eye.
Let me introduce to you SUgirlproblems and Seattleusays
Both serve very different purposes, but have great potential. Seattle University students – can we make these two accounts blow up? They both appear to be very new, but they managed to get a giggle out of me so I figured I could hop on their support train.
Song of the Day
Los Campesinos! – My Year In Lists
This song is short and sweet! Tomorrow Seattle University’s 2011 Battle of the Band’s winning band – Kithkin, will open for Los Campesinos! at the Neptune Theater.
Once College Is Over, It’s Over
During Snowpocalypse 2012, I remember telling Veronica just how excited I was over the possibility of snow days. When classes get cancelled due to unexpected circumstances, I am ecstatic. After I went on and on about how I much I couldn’t wait for the snow to eat up our campus, Veronica said to me, “…but we only have so many class days left!”
I’m sorry? Are we not on the same page here?
It’s been a few weeks since the snow days, but I haven’t forgotten about this conversation because Veronica was right. I’m not really going to miss the classes, but I am going to miss that entire college experience. If you think about it, four months isn’t a long time. It’s going to fly by. As I went about my day yesterday, this conversation kept coming back to me. Yesterday, I worked out of the bistro while getting a view of Mt. Rainier from the window and I haven’t done that in two years! It’s one of the prettiest sights seen from campus. It’s also the same kind of sight that brings my productivity level down to 27%. Mt. Rainier is pretty. It takes precedence over everything else. I also realized that I walk so fast that I am practically running into people all of the time and never catching my breath in time to say “Excuse me.” What I should be doing is taking it all in – walking slower and saying hi to the friends I see along the way. If that makes me late to my meetings and classes by three minutes – then so be it. There is no reason for me to be walking that fast.
For the past few months, I’ve been itching to get to the next chapter and skipping those pages just like I do with my own text books. When I was a kid, before blogs even existed – I loved to read books. I never missed a page; not even in Harry Potter. If my time in college has meant anything to me, I need to force myself to stop skipping. I’m not sure if anyone else feels the same way, but if you’ve been feeling like you’re missing a little bit of “life” right now, here are some steps I made up while I was in class.
- Eat on campus. Every once in awhile (or maybe more than once,) it feels GOOD to have others prepare a meal for you that you probably couldn’t make on your own.
A Note On Guest Posts
When I first had the idea for this project to feature my friends on Yow Yow, I had no idea what it would look like. I sent an email to a select few. I told them I was interested, but I didn’t gave any requirements or topics really. I barely gave them a deadline. As soon as the posts started rolling in, I knew that what I had just received to my inbox was special. These posts are unedited and are published in the raw form that you see them in.
I haven’t been able to express how much these mean to me though, because the only part that I write in the guest post is the bio and I try to make it all about them. I have to say though, that I feel incredibly lucky to have these people in my life. These friends have been there right next to me in that classroom, have become my role models, and my supporters. They have helped shape the four most memorable years of my life here at Seattle University and I am at times in disbelief that I have this opportunity at all to share them with you. For one post, I get to let you into their lives and my friends, for one post get to sum up their hopes, their emotions, their humor, and their passion. This project means a lot to me. As I write this, I am listening to a video recording of my dear friend Maddie (the very person that inspired this project,) pour her heart out into a song that I will be sharing with you very very soon and surprisingly, it is guiding me swiftly through writing this post. My hope is that you are able to take away from these posts a new perspective, a refined perspective, and the security of knowing that you are never alone. Whether you are countries apart, miles away, down the street from this guest post writer, the distance should not be a factor and neither should the age difference.
Readers, thank you for your continuous support and interest in reading their posts. I get the biggest grin on my face every time I see them as a top post. If you like what you are reading in their text, just imagine what they are like in real life.
My goal is to try to put out a post from them on a weekly/bi-weekly basis. Need to catch up? Please check out our first two guest post writers below.
