It's hard to believe the semester is already about halfway over. I had my first midterm last friday, and I'm moving along on my studio project for digital representation. We actually started using rendering programs on the computer to add light and shadow to the virtual three-dimensional model we made, which is really exciting to see.

(image of my design)

There's been a lot going on for the past few weeks too. For Mardi Gras, Stetson East dining hall was opened late full of traditional foods, dessert, decorations, music, favors, etc. and games that encouraged a lot of student involvement. A lot of students came out to enjoy the festivities.

Next weekend, I'm looking forward to my intramural soccer game; I'm on a co-ed team with students from my building, which is really fun. We play in Cabot gym almost every weekend, and it's nice to just get my feet to a ball once in a while after playing soccer for about thirteen years.

Next Saturday also is my residence hall's dodgeball tournament arranged by the hall President, which should be interesting considering I know very little about how to play.

And soon enough, break will have begun. I'm really excited to go home and see my friends and family. I haven't been home since classes started again at the beginning of January, so it has been at least six weeks. Can't wait!

Hope everyone's semester and midterms are going well!

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The last few weeks have been really busy for me, but mostly with a lot of fun activities. For my roommate's birthday last week, we went out with a group of sixteen or seventeen to the North End for dinner. We ate at Trattoria il Panino-this really, really small one roomed restaurant. It was a very fun time; the food was excellent-maybe the best pasta I've had. And we stopped at Mike's Pastries for desert (which in my opinion can never be a bad thing).

This week I'm starting my new project for my studio. The assignment is to design a museum space, with a focus on natural lighting through windows and a stair to join the rooms, for two paintings: Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Child and The Daughters of Edward Darley Bolt, which I went to go see at the Museum of Fine Arts. I'm excited to see the end result with all the new computer software we'll be using to render it.

Last night was the Beanpot-which for those of you that don't know is a hockey tournament between Harvard, BC, BU, and Northeastern in the TD Banknorth Garden. It was nice to see how packed the NU section of the stadium was, full of black and red spirit, especially in comparison to the other university's nearly empty sections. And despite our loss to Harvard, it was a very fun time!

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