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I am so excited for Winter Break to come! This countdown has been going for sometime now (along with my Christmas countdown!!). I have a 10 page paper to write for College Writing and one final for my Solar Systems class. Pretty descent schedule if you ask me! All around campus, that's what everyone is thinking about! People lock themselves in their rooms and hibernate in the library, trying to get those last hours of studying in. I myself have made at least 3 trips to the library in attempt to study and write my paper.

What we, as freshmen, realized is this Winter Break will be the start of amazing winter breaks to come!! Why? Because we won't have any homework to do over break like we did in High School! Am I right? Think about it. You usually always had some sort of homework over the classic Christmas break during High School. This college winter Break means NO HOMEWORK! NEW SEMESTER! I'm so excited for homecooked meals again and playing in the snow with my friends!! 3 more days! Just 3 more days!!!
~Bridget

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The end of the semester is coming nearer and students all around campus are scurrying to get projects finished, papers written, and study for finals. These all seem quite overwhelming, yes, but when you have some sort of release, it all seems to be not so much.

The release I'm talking about is snow. Yes, the ever so classic, white, fluffy, cold snow. Morris had it's first measurable amount this weekend and it was quite the blizzard! Of course you'll have those handful of students who would rather stay inside and order Pizza Hut to the dorm rooms, but then you'll have the students (like myself) who ran outside at the first sign of a snowflake. Students all around campus were seen having snowball fights on the mall, making snowangels all over, and the ever so classic, writing your names in the snow. My friends and I were the first to step foot in the "lake" on Saturday to write our names. Fresh, white, powdery snow layed before as we started to shuffle our feet in the design of our names. As seen in this pic, Abe is on top, Bridget (me) is in the middle, and Nate is on the bottom.

We had such a blast this weekend! The University and Concert Choir's had their Carol Concert all weekend (yes, even during the blizzard!) They did such an amazing job! There were even refreshments afterwards! It just put me into the Christmas Spirit even moreso!

Well, I must be going to my last intramural basketball game! Wish me luck!
Until next time!
Bridget

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So the end of the term is coming near and more papers are being assigned, more projects are due, and the excitement of Christmas can make it even harder to focus! My roommate and I just decorated our room last night for christmas! We have a little tree and we hung garland all over our door and up along our walls! The more I think about Christmas, the more excited I get. I mean, we get a month off from school where no homework will be due, you'll be able to eat homecooked meals everyday, and there'll be hills to go sledding! :) Oh, but I love Morris though. The first accumalative snow fell last night, and my floor went and played in the snow and tried to make snowangels. It didn't work all that great, but it was a lot of fun!! Well, I should be off and working on my papers! (I feel it will be pretty hard while listening to Christmas carols... :) )
~Bridget~

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I registered for my Spring Semester just this week and all I can say is my work load will be huge! But i did end up getting all the classes I wanted and they should be interesting and fun!! I'm going to be taking Stats, Sociological Aspects of Sports (I am super excited about this class!), Environmental Geology, Intro to History since 1500, and Drugs and Human Behavior. My classes range from all over the subject spectrum. I'm an undecided major so I'm just getting my gen eds done first. I never realized all the different classes they offer here! I saw they offered Oceanology! WHAT?! Morris? Oceanology!? That's way cool!! :) Registering for your classes here is really easy and if you have a major, Morris makes it really easy for you to find all the classes that you should be taking for that major.

Between my intramurals, classes, and coaching Morris 7th grade basketball this semester, I'm just really excited for a nice little break I like to call Thanksgiving! Oh how I am looking forward to the yummy homemade food by my mother and hanging with the family! I have been counting down the days for about two weeks now! I can't wait!

I must be leaving now to coach my 7th graders!! Until next time!....
~Bridget~

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It seems as if we have started the introduction game. Well, I'll start off by saying my name is Bridget McNally and I am a freshman at Morris! I am 19 years old and from a town called Lindstrom, MN (about 3 hours East of Morris). I went to Chisago Lakes HS and participated in many school activities, including Basketball, NHS, band, TA, Ultimate Frisbee! and many others. I am the youngest of 3 children, one of which (my brother) graduated from Morris just last year! As far as my major goes, I am undecided at the moment. I am interested in A LOT of subjects, so it's hard to choose! But I am thinking about being a physical therapist/sports medicine or becoming a teacher! I love to work with people!

Now, many of my relatives are from Morris, so I've been here quite a few times before I even began looking at this college. What got me interested was going to my brother's Basketball games when he played for the Cougars. I began to look around the school more and he'd show me around campus. It's a small school (which is what I was looking for), and it wasn't expensive! I also looked into doing sports here, mainly intramurals. I am officially on the Co-Ed Basketball intramural team for the winter session of intramurals, and I am super excited for that to start!!

Well! That's all for now! I'm off to my Spanish class!! If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them!! Later gang!
~Bridget~

Posted at 01:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Yes, the time has come for Morris' very first extended weekend, aka Fall Break! Students were psyched out of their minds for this weekend to go home, many for the first time since school started. Countdowns began at the beginning of the week on everyone's white boards outside their doors, and the excitement of waiting students was present ALL over campus. You would notice yourself and other classmates staring at the clock of your classes, waiting in anticipation for the trip home. I mean, have you ever noticed when you watch the time, it feels like minutes turn in to hours?!? Luckily for me, my last class (Spanish) involved my classmates and I watching a movie we had started a few days earlier. Thus being the case, i was able to relax and not focus so much on the clock.

As excited as the students were to go home, many were also sad to leave their friends here at Morris! I know I miss my roommate and all my friends already! But it is good to be home! Mom and Dad's homecooking, visiting with family and friends, and one can't forget the homework that they need to do before classes start on Wednesday! :) Speaking of which, I should probably get started on that so I can have the rest of the extended weekend to relax! Thanks for reading!
~Bridget

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