Kasey Cole

This week was definitely less crazy than last week, and a lot more fun. I did have a take home midterm due this week, and an in class English midterm (AH!), but they were way easier than last week’s Real Analysis test, which, by the way, I got an 87%!! I also feel a lot better than I did last weekend, that always helps!

Friday night I went out with a few friends to Cheeseburger in Paradise. We had so much fun! I ordered the Chocolate Nachos and a few of us shared them. They were sooooo yummy! Here’s a picture of me and my friend Lindsay, and then one of me and my friend Seta!

Saturday I went to a Math Career Conference with my friend Anthony and one of our math professors, Dr. Molli. It was at Westchester University. It is a very nice school, and the sessions that we went to there were very informative. I know I want to go to grad school, so I went to a talk about that and it was given by 2 students who are in grad school right now.

Saturday night was an adventure. My friend Jess and I went to Phoenixville to see my friend Katie in “Assassins” the Musical. It wasn’t that easy, though. So I got directions off of Mapquest- my first mistake. It said to keep following Rt 29, so I did, and made a right at some point, and that ended up not being the correct way. Backtracked. Then we were on the phone with friends who were kind of from the area. We ended up in Phoenixville at one point, and asked a couple who were walking their dogs for directions. They said we had to go “in town” and gave us directions. We then got lost “in town” and just drove around for a little bit, and finally found the parking lot, and followed other people to the theatre. It was crazy. And it should have taken 20 minutes to get there, but it took us an hour, so much for stopping at Taco Bell for dinner! Once we got to the theatre we were fine. The show was hilarious! Definitely not for people under the age of 18, but it was great, and my friend Katie was fabulous!!

Today was the induction ceremony for a bunch of honor societies. I was inducted into Alpha Psi Omega, the Theatre Honor Society. It was neat. After that was the Honors Convocation: where students are honored for being on the Dean’s List or for being part of different Honor Societies. It is a nice ceremony and we all wear our academic attire (cap and gown). Afterwards my parents and grandparents went out to TGIFridays for dinner. It was sooooo good!

And that leads me to now: bored after a busy weekend and doing homework. This week will be really busy too… Next weekend we have the Haunted Grotto, the Monster Mash, and on Sunday the Malvern Halloween Parade. I am really excited about next weekend’s festivities, but at the same time I cant wait for them to be over because it is a little stressful planning for big events such as the Monster Mash.

See you next week, and PREPARE FOR HALLOWEEN! Maybe I’ll have pictures from the dance. I cant wait to decorate!!

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So I was looking forward to this weekend so much, just to end up sick. It started out well, on Friday morning my friend and fellow math major Orfa and I went to a Montessori school in Malvern with one of our favorite math professors, Dr. Molli Jones. Her son goes there. It was so awesome and the kids were so smart! We observed a class that was full of second graders through fifth graders. I didn’t understand how that worked out at first, but after seeing it first hand I was amazed! We were mostly interested in the methods the students used to learn math, and while watching them work in small groups or independently, they explained to us exactly what they were doing. I was stunned to find a forth grader taking the square root of a number in the hundreds and a third grader solving a long division problem in the millions!

Saturday was the worst day of my sickness. I felt terrible and cold all day. I went to my friends wedding, and of course, like any other girl, I cried. It was a beautiful ceremony and she looked like a princess!! No wait, she looked like a queen! I went to the reception, but left early because I didn’t feel well.

Last night was super fun because it was my first rehearsal in a while for Godspell, and all of the philosophers were there! It was so fun, and I had forgotten how much I love the stage in my few months away. I also took head shots of Ken, who plays Jesus because he wont be there tonight for the official headshot night. Of course some of the other principals got involved in headshots last night. Theatre people are such hams! (and I include myself in that too!! Tee-hee.)

So besides crazy homework-ness, that is what I have been up to. Sorry I didn’t write on Sunday like I normally do, but I totally forgot because I was in bed sick all day! Check back next week, I’m sure I will have something interesting to talk about then too!!

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I had my first midterm this week. I think I did okay, I studied, and I even did all of the extra credit. I’ll know how well I did Wednesday night. I got back my first paper of the semester on Wednesday too. I did way better than I thought I was going to do. On Thursday we had our first Junior Class meeting of the year. There was a pretty good turn out, more than showed up last year. I think everyone liked the fact that we started on time, and the meeting was no longer than 10 minutes. Short and to the point, with time for questions- those are meetings everyone likes, right?

I went home Thursday night for the first time since Labor Day. My family and I went out for my dad’s birthday to Outback Steakhouse, one of his favorites. It’s weird, but one of my favorite things about that place is the bread they give you. It is fabulous. My mom was running late because of traffic and 5 of us went through 4 loafs of bread. We had a cook out the next day, and my mom had bought cheese filled hotdogs. They were actually really good. But after that, my 2 best friends and I went to get snowballs. Now I know what you are thinking, snowballs- those marshmallows with the coconut on them? No. Snowballs in Maryland are totally different. They are more like a snowcone, but of course better, especially with marshmallow. If anyone is from MD, go to Icy Delights, there’s at least 4 stands in the greater Baltimore area, they are my favorite. After that we had Scrabble night with a few friends. It was fun, but I am terrible at Scrabble, which is why I LOVE spell check.

Next Sunday will be more interesting. I have a lot planned this week, including a wedding!!! I’m so excited!!  So, check next week for something a little more interesting than food.

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