Well to start things off, this week at first look was good but very hectic. It was very hectic as I was at work and school for most of the time. As Friday began to unfold, I was in a great mood because of an internship that I will most likely get for this summer. But as fast as this day began, I was crushed just as fast; mainly because of my own stupidity.

As snow began to fall, I made an unwise decision of not changing from my gym shorts to a presentable pair of khakis. The snow was a sign for me to change my appearance even though it had nothing to do with it. The reason I needed to wear khakis was for my interview with my bosses.

The interview was for the summer employment job in the Athletic Department and well all my hopes of getting the job was just flushed away in ten minutes. And the feeling I have right now is not good. Disappointment lingers within me for not preparing better for this important interview. For something I want so badly I gave my bosses every reason not to hire me. The only person I can be mad at if I don’t get this job is myself.

I don’t know what I was thinking walking into the interview in gym shorts and a sweatshirt. I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote two bad essays that I sent in with my application. I don’t know what I was thinking when I was given two minutes to redeem myself and convince them why I should be hired and I failed miserably at it.

If I was applying for a different job, I don’t even think that I would have been called back. They probably would think that I’m not really interested in the job. The thing is…well I love my job here at the Athletic Department and regardless of what happens in this situation, I will be back next fall duplicating all my effort that I’ve put forth this year.

I guess I just assumed that all my effort and past hard work would cut it but I was totally wrong. Through this experience though, I’ve realized if you really want something (like me in this case) you can never stop going above and beyond to reach your goals. Somewhere in this process, I suppose I stopped for a little bit and now I feel I won’t be able to get what I want.

Also, there is no reason for someone like me to want this job. I’m from Newport, RI and well it’s pretty nice down there especially during the summer. People talk highly of that place. I would be missing out on so much if I got the job. I would continue to not see my family and friends. I would also be adding forty hours of work a week. Why would any sane person in my situation want something like this? I honestly have no answers; all I do know is that this job is something I've wanted ever since I first learned about it from someone who worked this job in the past. It’s just my luck that the first time I really want to do something like this, there are eight people applying for five spots; in past years, they would have hardly anyone apply.

Well besides the dark clouds looming over the summer employment with the Athletic Department, I have been successfully running another tournament. In the spirit of March Madness, the Video Gaming Club and Athletics are co-sponsoring a College Hoops 2k7 Tournament played on the Xbox 360. This has taken a lot of my time to run. From creating a banner, to sign ups, to creating a schedule, a lot of hours have gone into this. We have a total of 26 teams which matches the highest total of the year when Madden 2007 was held in October.

Overall, I’ve been really busy. It’s really hard becoming president of a club that last season was basically inactive. I’ve had to take a lot of initiative and responsibility to get this task done. The good thing about becoming the president of the Video Gaming Club, I love video games and I enjoy running tournaments and so fourth.

Only about a week left until spring break. I’ll just have to wait and see what happens with everything. I was told I should have a decision about things by then.

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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WAS DONE BY A TRAINED COLLEGE STUDENT. PLEASE DON’T ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME.

So here I am, pulling an all-nighter. Right now, it is about 15 minutes before the stretch run of this long journey ahead of me. I refer to the 3 and 4 o’clock hours as the stretch run because it seems to me to be the hardest part of staying up. To me, if you can’t manage to stay up until 3 o’clock, you aren’t dedicated to pull this off. Most college students are regularly up until 1 or 2 am on most nights. Once you get to 5 o’clock, the battle is almost over. The plan is at 5 or 5:15, take a long and cold shower to wake up. After the invigorating shower, I will need to find something to do between the time I get out of the shower and 7:00 which is breakfast.

I have only failed this feat twice out of five times this school year. One time I deviated from the plan and the other time I put my head on one of my pillows for one second and next thing I knew it was 11 o’clock in the morning. I am making sure tonight I am not surrounded by pillows to sink me into a deep sleep that I probably wouldn’t wake up until mid afternoon.

The worst part of my adventure tonight (this morning, however you would like to refer to it) has begun. It is now 3:01. As the plan states, make it to 5 o’clock and I should be good.

You may be wondering why I am doing this all-nighter in the first place. To be honest, it is not for the reader’s enjoyment but it is out of necessity. I NEED to finish two papers due later on today. Procrastinating is the worst thing you can do in college but it happens. You are aware that you are procrastinating yet you can’t finish your work. You try and try to do it but there are way too many distractions. Maybe its human nature or maybe it’s just me. Whatever the reason, I have procrastinated once again and I am now stuck waiting for the sunrise to occur.

This is beginning to be really tough. I am starting to have some doubts. It is 3:44 and I am blinking a lot heavier now. I just need to hold on a little bit longer. 5 o’clock here I come. I am almost halfway through this step. Just a little more will power will get it job done.

Ok, so I’ve successfully made it through the stretch run. I have neglected one paper but we have the option to take a quiz instead so I am probably going to opt to do that. The quiz is two questions long so I can either get a 100, 50, or a 0 which cannot be made up, unlike the papers. I have written all the papers so far which has been a paper a week so I feel like I deserve a break. The other paper which is more detrimental to my grade is completed.

So now the sun is attempting to come out. The sky is not pitch black any more; it’s just some shade of blue. Well it’s just about 6 o’clock and for the time being, I feel this has been very productive. I have finished a very important paper that I’ve been trying to do for a week and a half now. I have a feeling I will be going to bed quite early later today. I get out of class at 5 so who knows where my day will go from there. With my luck, I’ll get this huge burst of energy and won’t go to bed until midnight.

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…even if it’s was just for a day, there were no classes on Friday; and you thought snow days were abolished in college. This is our second snow day of this semester which doubles the amount of snow days that I was fortunate to have last year at Rogers High School in Newport, Rhode Island. Well to properly introduce myself, I’m Nick like the profile states. My major is communications with sports management as a minor.

As much as I was never involved in high school, the same thing does not apply for my first year at Southern New Hampshire University.

From day three I was involved. Well actually I did do some things on day one and two but I can’t remember what they were. So day three came and for one thing, I wasn’t in a great mood because there was a mandatory meeting for everyone looking to get a job on campus. That meeting was at 10 in the morning and I don’t function well until at least 11:30 on any day. As it was, I had a work study and needed to get a job on campus which made me penciled in at the meeting.

So there I was, sitting in the small gym on the blue folding chairs listening to speakers. Because it was 10 in the morning, I only really heard money and job. Luckily, I saw that the time of the job fair was listed on one of the papers that were passed out at the meeting. Two hours later in the Field House there were hundreds of students scurrying to find a job, fill out the paper work, and hopefully be hired.

ATHLETICS-the sign that intrigued me the most. I applied and had an interview later that night. The interview went well, I got the job and ever since then, I’ve been with the Athletic Department doing various jobs for them.

Along with working for the Athletic Department, I am a staff writer for The Observer which is our school newspaper that is distributed monthly. I am also a member of the following groups: SNHU Radio, History Club, TV Club, and C.A.P.E. (which stands for Coordinators of Activities and Events). And I recently became the President of the Video Gaming Club.

Yes, it’s a lot of work and pretty chaotic at times but I still have free time. I enjoy everything I do at SNHU. Because of the make up of this school, it’s a great way to get involved and by getting involved, you can really meet some great people.

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