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Hannah Moriggi
Class Year: Freshman
Major: Undeclared
Hometown: Blackstone, MA
High School: Blackstone-Millville Regional High School
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So yesterday my mentoring group took a tour of the state house with our mentees and we had a blast. Being a Massachusetts resident all my life, I have never gotten the chance to see the RI state house, even though I have passed it many times in the car. What I learned was that the RI state house has the fourth largest self standing marble dome in the world, at 50 feet..pretty cool huh? The building itself was constructed in 1904 and cost 3 million dollars and it is made of Georgian marble.
We got to see the room where the RI senate meets, the library, along with the governor's imperial room. And then to our surprise we got to meet the governor, see inside his office and shake his hand! Overall a really cool experience and the kids loved it, especially my mentee Kenny. He had so many good questions! I look forward to seeing him every two weeks and I wish we had longer than 2 hours to hangout with them, because the kids are just great!
On a side note...I had to wake up to register for the spring semester this morning at 7am and I got everything I wanted! I'm taking Civ, Educational Psychology, British Lit and Biblical Theology and I'm done every day at 12:20..YAY ME!
Below are some pics from our field trip..
The Rhode Island State House
Kenny and Me!
Kenny being silly
Governor talking to the boys
So the highlight of my day was speaking on a Student Panel for the New England College Sampler. I was invited by the Admissions office to be the freshmen representative and speak about my transitions and experiences here at PC thus far. In the audience sat 40 high school guidance counselors from outside the North East who have been touring Providence College, Northeastern, and Wheaton for the past two days.
It was a really neat experience to represent my Providence College Class of 2012 and I hope I did a good job!
P.S. Here is a picture of me and Cail at our first PC BASKETBALL GAME! And the seats really weren't that empty I swear, we just got there SUPER EARLY!
The very first event that I attended on the Providence College campus was a production at the Smith Center with my 11th grade English Class and today I revisited the place where I first fell in love with PC.
My friend Liz and I went to the 2 pm production of "Breaking the Cycle," a series of three plays: Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, Agamemnon by Aeschylus and Electra by Sophocles. Although it was an extra credit assignment for our Civ class, I am really glad that I went as the acting and staging were phenomenal. It was a student-run production and the cast members were amazing, taking the complete role of their characters. As someone who is not into theatre and for those of you who might be in the same boat, it is really neat to reach out to groups such as theatre on campus to sort of culture yourself about what college is all about. I think of college as a time for experimenting, exploring and taking advantage of all that these four years offer you. I think by attending that play today, I reached out to a part of PC that I had not yet! I hope to attend another play, Philoctetes in December and hopefully a few others this year as well. The Providence College theatre department is extremely talented and well worth seeing.
So come on down to PC and catch a show!
Hey Ya'll, sorry for the lack of an update lately, but things have really picked up as far as my work load and activity load.
This week I had an English paper due Tuesday, a Math exam this morning and then I just finished my final Western Civ paper due Friday - talk about stressful. Anyway I am so glad I started my Civ paper early, because come tomorrow night I do not have to panic about writing it last minute and I can relax and watch Grey's with my girls!
Also this week I have started my first intramural experiences here at PC. My friends and I made a co-ed dodge ball team and we are currently UNDEFEATED 3-0. I was on the championship team at my high school and three of the guys on our team were the champs at their high school which means that we are awesome! It is so much fun and I am so glad we made a team, we have our next set of matches tomorrow night, GO TEAM BOO-YAH! Tonight I also had my first 3 on 3 basketball game and it was a blast, especially because some of the girls on my team I do not know that well yet, so I get to play basketball and make new friends!
I can't wait for the weekend, I have friends coming, and I'm going to my first hockey/basketball games, wohooo!
As we all know this past Tuesday was the 2008 Presidential Election, which happened to also be the first election in which I got to participate in as a young woman of voting age! On Tuesday night, my dad picked me up at school and we took the 25 minute ride back to my hometown where we both filled out our ballots! Then as I was leaving, the lady at the door handed me my "I voted today," sticker and I thought it was so cool. I could finally vote and more importantly I took advantage of my ability to vote!
On an academic note, we got our midterm grades this week and my classes are looking good! We are also getting ready to register for classes next semester! I cannot believe I am almost through one semester of college, it is crazy! I decided that I will remain undeclared for the rest of the year; however spring semester, I am going to take an education class, to test the waters and see if I like it..I still really have no idea what I want to do, but hey...I don't need to know quite yet!
This weekend was full of activity!
Friday night PC was lively with Halloween Festivities. Personally, I attended "Halloween on the Quad," with some of my friends and it was a blast. There was music, a dance floor, candy, contests and so much more! A lot of people showed up from 9pm-2am and it was well worth fighting the cold!
FRIENDS! Jim, Me and Matt
Susie&Me!
Then Saturday came along and it was the start of Freshmen Family Weekend. When I woke up I looked out the window and saw everyone walking around with their parents! My mom and dad came in the afternoon and we went and watched the field hockey and soccer games, and went to brunch.Then that night, my family and Jaime's family went out to dinner on Thayer street to Paragon and I had steak..it was amazing!
However, I learned this morning that my Nana passed away. Anyone who reads this, please keep her in your prayers. Thanks!
Alice Theresa Thibeault <3
I have never done so much work for one class than I have for my Women's Studies Class. It is a class that I never imagined I would take, because well, I had never heard of it, but here I am, learning about how women have been depicted throughout history, in the media, etc.
Anyways moral of the story, during the semester we have to attend 3 Women's Studies Events and tonight I went to my last one. It was the showing of the HBO movie Iron Jawed Angels, featuring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul, the leading suffragist in the fight for women to vote. Now if I didn't have to go to these events, I probably would have never seen the video, but my Women's Studies Class persuaded me to go and I loved it. I found the movie very moving and it made me think that women would be silly not to vote after seeing that movie.
Basically I think what Providence College offers for outside the classroom learning is really neat. Events that departments hold such as the movie I watched tonight are really enlightening and allow you to relate your studies to the real world.
I have a monologue due tomorrow for this class and I have yet to memorize it yet, so off I go..Wish me luck!
P.S. If you leave me a comment, which I hope you do! Just know that I will answer any questions you have in the comment section - so you can find your answer there! Thanks!
One thing I love about PC is the fact that we have 10:30 mass, but not in the morning...10:30 at night!
It is so nice to wake up on Sunday morning, as late as you want, and know that you can still make it to mass that night after you've done all your errands and such. Personally, it is not just the time of the mass that I love, but mass itself. It is so cool to be in St. Dominic Chapel surrounded by all your peers who are not being forced to go to church, but want to be there. Most everyone is in sweat shirts and sweatpants, which you might say is not church attire, but for some reason, it works here. Nobody cares what each other are wearing, we are all just happy to be at church together at PC.
Also the music is fantastic and the homilies always interesting, and always geared toward what is going on in our lives. The friars don't talk at us, but instead they talk with us. So now on to one of the traditions Jaime and I have started here..10:30 Mass and hot cocoa in our rooms after! It may sound silly but we look forward to going to mass together and then chit-chatting with hot cocoa and finishing up our homework after!
This has been by far the most stressful week I have experienced yet at PC. Between midterms, deadlines and just everything in general, I have not even stopped to breathe.
On Sunday I started studying for my first CIV MID-TERM and that is really what got me. For my Civ team (Team C) we were told that our exam would consist of 5 identifications ( 1 from each subject Philosophy, Theology, Literature and History ) plus an extra one and then 2 essays, all of which to do in just 50 minutes. But oh it gets better! We were given 28 possible Id's to study from, and of course I wrote them all out and we were NOT given the essay questions. Just take a minute and ponder that...
Ok, well! To my surprise, I felt extremely confident walking out of my seminar room Tuesday morning and I think I studied just enough! And just when I thought I was due for a break, nope..off to studying for my Math Business Analysis Mid-Term, which was this morning, and I think that went okay too. So as of right now I am basically stress free for the rest of the week, until Monday rolls around.
Just for fun, here are some pics from the Black and White Dance I went to Saturday Night sponsored by BOP...
My roomie Jaime and I
And here are some pictures of the field trip I went on today with my mentoring program to Cox Communications...
David trying on the uniform
Francisco, Alan and Jacob learning about installing Cox equipment
Madness was back in Friartown last Friday night as PC kicked off the season with the Men's and Women's Basketball Teams. My friends and I headed off to our first Madness at 9:15 and as we stood in the halls of Concannon waiting to be let in, all you could hear was the chant "PC....FRIARS....PC....FRIARS!" And once the doors opened, we all piled into the gym for a night to remember.
The girls and me waiting to get into Madness... (I'm on the far left)
The line-up of activities included a bunch of performances from Dance Team, Dance Company, Dance Club PC Cheerleaders, BMSA, B.O.P and more! There was also a three-point and foul shooting contest, and even a music video for a new and upcoming rapper Ace Diamond was filmed during Madness. The entire time students were cheering, everyone seated in their respective sections, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors sporting our Friar Fanatic t-shirts.
PC Cheerleaders...
Then came the moment we were all waiting for, the lights went down in Friartown, the spot lights came on and the official countdown to the season began. Then the Men's and Women's PC Basketball Teams were announced and the crowd went wild for the seniors! I have truly seen nothing like it, you think high school pep rallies are fun, well this DOESN'T EVEN COMPARE...just come to PC and you'll find out for yourself!
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