Student SPHere 2008-09

Things are certainly busy this time of year. As my fellow bloggers have pointed out midterms are in full swing. I have three tests down and one more to go. My group for Risk Analysis also started our group project last week that is a big chunk of our grade. I am actually looking forward to this group project, which is kind weird. Normally they are stressful, as you try to make sure everyone pulls their own weight. This one is different, as our professor required us to outline the project in detail (with due dates and names of who is completing what), so my stress level for it is much lower. I am kind of excited though, as we are using a new tool for completing this project, Google Docs. Well its not exactly a new tool, I have used it for personal projects before, but never a group project. Its going to be nice to not have a word document emailed back and forth and to be able to see the project progress in “real time�.

Sometime in the midst of crazy busy school life its nice to drop everything and get out of town. I almost did this over the weekend. We took off a little early on Friday to head back to my wife’s hometown in Iowa in time to catch the last home football game. Can you guess what we were sitting in the bleachers to watch? Well if you guess the band you would be right. It was brothers last home marching band performance (he is a senior). I love watching marching bands. My family and I used to go to marching band competitions as spectators and I marched in the band in high school (I played the baritone). We also got to watch the UNI vs NDSU football game on Saturday night. I do enjoy watching football and cant wait to watch the Gophers next year in the TCF Stadium. There is just something magical about being outdoors in the fall watching your team.

Fun fact of the week: We recently completed a week-long exposure assessment in our risk analysis class where we kept track of our time in 7 different microenvironments. I managed to spend 52% of October 7th in Moos/Mayo working and going to class.