Snow Day!!

Today i had my first ever snow day!!! We got so much snow here in Golden that they closed the school yesterday at 3 and cancelled all classes today!! Thats right all you Utah people, all of you that were so excited about the snow, you got nothing!! We have over 2 feet!! Also there was supposed to be a chem exam today but the campus was closed so i couldnt take my test, shoot. There was sooooo much snow that this big tree branch fell down right outside my dorm.
I woke up this morning and was overjoyed to look at my phone and see that i have an email saying school is cancelled for the day. I promptly told Bailey and since it was only 7 in the morning, we went back to bed. After another 2 hours of sleep, we woke up and took our time getting ready to go down to breakfast. After breakfast, we cuddled up on the chairs in our room and watched one of the best movies in the world..... Harry Potter! And since it was the first big snowstorm so we naturally went out to play! Dani, Bailey, and I had a nice snowball fight/tackle eachother in the snow. This is Bailey tackling Dani...

Dani after being tackled... :)

Bailey in the process of taking Dani down.

Dani and Bailey just takin a breather.

Dani tackling me. Yes i am in there somewhere....

Me and Dani after I tackled her back.

Dani.

Dani, Me, and Bailey

Dani and Me!!

Bailey and her fur on her coat that i took like ten minutes trying to get off.

Bailey and Me before we head out for the big fight.Dani is the mascot for some of the home games. This is Frankie, Bailey, Marvin the Miner (aka Dani), and Me.

HOME!!

So, everyone is freakin out at me for not updating my blog in a timely manner so here you all go. I hope you enjoy.

I got to come home last weekend for my fall break and let me tell you I had a blast!! It was a little weird being home at first but i really enjoyed seeing everyone.
Since i was home, we of course had to go to the Mayan. Yes, the Mayan. The food is gross but the atmosphere and divers make it all worth it. Unfortunately, nattles, who made the reservation, couldnt join us, but we took some awesome pics still, self-timer of course.
We went to Lisa's house afterwards and had a birthday party, complete with Claire's delicious chocolate cake! The empty plate in the middle signifies Natalie who wasnt there.

The waiters at the Mayan who sang Happy Birthday to me.

More Mayan pics and fun

Self-timer in Julies Basement.

I unfortunately, dont have any of the pics from my welcome commity at the airport. But they were great!!

How Nerds do Homecoming.

Ok so here is a look at Homecoming:

Gumby
Our float...

The freezing cold i had to sit through.

Taryn and me. This was Taryn's first experience with snow. Shes from California and had never seen snow before. Being her first snow, she was pretty excited about that icicle.

Blakley and Me

Our awesome t-shirts. I will try and get one in the dark later.

Me, Bailey, and Kat before the football game.

Downtown Golden, view from the float.

Taryn and Jennifer

Me, Blakley, Taryn, Jennifer, Whitney, Maura, and a Fiji boy.

The freezing cold I woke up too.

Step 1: Choose a theme. So, the obvious choice would have to do with space because we are nerds after all and most nerds love anything to do with space and/or NASA. Hence, you get the theme SPACEBLASTER!!!
Step 2: Make an awesome t-shirt.
But the best part about this t-shirt is that it is GLOW-IN-THE-DARK!!
Step 3: Make a float for the parade. Now, you can go all out and actually build something like most frats do and end up spending most of the night before the parade finishing it. Now, you make something that extravagant in the hopes of winning the float building prize. However, if you are from my sorority and team up with the frat FIJI you can just attach some stars to some PVC pipe and have people old rubber balls that looked like planets while everyone else waves and hands out candy. Normally you would think that this technique would not win at most things, however, you would be sadly mistaken. Because not only did our float make it to the top three and get to drive around at half time of the homecoming football game, we also won the whole contest. That’s right. We won. Our float was the bomb dot com. Our theme for the actual float was the “Space Race” and we had the Soviet Union going against the USA. We even had people with rocket ships riding around on the float.
The guys in the masks were planets… ONLY the planets and rocket ships were actually allowed on the float part and everyone else had to walk or ride in the bed of the truck if there was room.

Also, it is tradition for FIJI to have Gumby ride along on the float so of course we had a very large Gumby…
Step 4: Make sure that the day of homecoming is very cold and snowy. One of the pictures shows what I woke up to at 8 in the morning right before I was leaving to go sit outside for 4 hours. The other picture is of lovely Downtown Golden while riding on the float.
Step 5: Enjoy your first college homecoming experience. Homecoming was packed with all kinds of activities from powder-puff football, to float building, to concerts, to the actual football game. First on Friday night, there was a powder-puff football game with my sorority. Now I am athletic but let’s just say not everyone else is… there are a few others but it’s basically me and 3 other girls that even have a remote idea as to what they were doing. Needless to say, we lost. Next, there was a concert with the band called Singlefile. I guess they are kind of a big deal here in Colorado… Who knew? Not I. Anyways after the concert, I went and spent some quality time with some of the guys in Kappa Sigma, not to be confused with my sorority of Sigma Kappa. They were still working on their float (we were done hours ago) and so we just sat and talked while they worked hard drawing in huge bold letters with sharpie. After we were finished chatting (they were still building and would be into the wee hours of the morning) we decided to head back to the dorms. We watched just watched a movie with some of the guys on the first floor. We don’t really know the first floor guys that well so it was fun getting to know them. I ended up going to bed much later than I was hoping for (around 3 in the am). I had to be up at 8 for the parade. Fun stuff! Basically all of Saturday went like this: stand out in the cold, be in the parade at 10 for a total of about 30 minutes, stand outside some more. Go warm up and eat breakfast. Go to the football game and stand outside some more. Ride our float around at half time and then leave the game because you are sick of sitting outside in the cold. Take a nice long hot shower and a 3 hour nap. And this next part is going to show everyone how much of a nerd I really am. Keep in mind it is Saturday night. After my 3 hour nap, I went to dinner then did some physics homework. I worked on physics and calculus until about 9 pm. Yes I am a nerd. But after 9 I did go hang out with some girls from my hall and ended up watching SNL. It was a very lazy, relaxing night after all the crazy, cold events of homecoming.

And that is how Nerds do Homecoming. Doesn’t it look like a BLAST?!?
Love, Skip
P.S. Yesterday I overhead a casual conversation about physics. That’s when you really know what kind of school I am at.

Sneak Preview

I just wanted to say that i am soooo excited to be coming home tomorrow!! I will see you in less than 36 hours!!
Here is a little sneak peak at Homecoming... I will post more details later because it will be a lengthy post and, frankly, i just dont have time right now.

Love and hugs, Skippy

Never Again

So, i have decided that my new goal is to take more pictures. To start this new goal, I was going to take pictures of my earth lab field trip up to North Table Mountain. This lab involved us walking up a path to the top of North Table and looking at rocks and what not. And to my surprise, it was actually kind of fun. The whole looking at rocks and trying to figure out what type they were wasnt fun, but the hiking up and getting to know some people a little better was fun. But anyways, back to the picture taking goal. So i get to the top of the mountain and pull out my camera. I go to turn it on, and i get a message saying your batteries are dead and the camera then turns off. Of course. I decide to take pictures and you (the camera) decide to die on me. AWESOME! But dont worry. This is where a handy iPhone comes in. So although they arent the best quality, at least i did get some.
These first three are from the top of the North Table Mountain.

You cant tell but in this picture but this is looking at Downtown Denver.

I think this one has the M on the opposite mountain, but i cant really tell...

This is just an awesome picture of the fort Bailey and I made last Friday night. Thats right we made a fort. It was a girls movie night. It even included chick flix and cookie dough. I needed it last Friday...

I went to a Rockies game last week. It was super fun. Here is the view from where were sitting in the "ROCKPILE"...

Haha this one is a picture sent to me from my mother. My lovely little sister answering to her first high school dance. How precious.

And i just had to throw this one in... Look familiar to anyone?? Oh the good old days.

This is a picture of the MAIN street in Downtown Golden. Nice little town, dont you think?

Well thats all i've got for today. But dont worry, i now have fresh batteries in my camera and this weekend is filled with many opportunities for "smile" moments! Homecoming is upon us... SPACE BLASTER. be excited for the tshirts we got. they are awesome, you just wait.

See you in a WEEK!

Love,

Skippy

.41 no .40!

So, I am sitting here in my room with Bailey and another friend, Kat, and they are talking about their epics class (engineering design class) and I have no idea what they saying because i am not in that class. They dont seem to be having too much fun, so lets just say i am not looking forward to this class. They are throwing out words like inclinded planes, the counter sink, and leader lines. Random dimensions are being tossed into the air- the top radius is .40, no its .41, wait are you sure? i am pretty sure its .41 not .40. I was thinking if i am lost in their conversation, how would someone from home, or anywhere but Mines for example, feel in one of my classes? Well, I think they would be quite lost, because to be honest, i am part of the time.
On another note, after my very long, tiring, stressful week last week, i am definitely looking forward to a somewhat relaxing week this week. I mean, how relaxed can i get here at Mines? This isn't CU (haha funny CU reference, often used by my physics professor). But really, last week was no fun on many levels and most of you know what i am talking about. This past week i have really missed the standard 7, other, somewhat newer ;) friends, as well as family. But, there is one bit of good news that came out of last week. I get to come home!! Thats right, i will be back in the SLC in 11 days, thats about 264 hours, or roughly 15840 minutes. I hope you all can handle it.
See you soon!
I love saying that so i will say it again.
SEE YOU SOON!!!
Love Skiparoo Blue (haha)

A few more...

You know you're a Mines student when you are 1 of 3 girls in your entire earth systems lab (there are approx 25 people total). You know you're a Mines student when you walk around campus looking at rocks and determining what kind they are. You know you're a Mines student when you are in a group with 3 other GUYS and all they talk about are there plans for the weekend. You know you're a Mines student when those guys' plans are to play Halo and video games all weekend, maybe go a frat party but probably not. You know you are AT Mines when you notice actually how many rocks are just placed randomly around campus and there is a Mines geology rock trail. You know you are a Mines student when you rearrange your room so that your desk is below your bookshelf so it is easy to store your books and reach them to study (i.e. stay more organized and study more effectively). You know you are a Mines student when you get up at 8 in the morning on a day when you are supposed to have class off and be able to sleep in but instead go talk to another teacher about another one of your homework. You know you're a Mines student when while rearranging your room someone asks how should we do this and you respond with "we can figure it out, we are Helluva engineers." You know you're a Mines student when your teacher says "You will get your test back Monday and DONT worry i will post all the statistics like high and low and average because most of you like that stuff" and think i really do want to know those things...

You know when.

You know you're a Mines student when you go on a walk and talk and study about the Chemistry test that is later that day. You know you're a Mines student when you hate using scientific calculators and all you want is your wonderful TI-83 graphing calculator. You know you're a Mines student when you like Calculus 3 more than Calc 2. You know you're a Mines student when you just dont want to FAIL a test, a C is great! You know you're a Mines student when you when the words Lon-Capa come up and you quickly change the subject. You know you're a Mines student when you can find ways to remember the six forms of mechanical weathering using motions, hand signals, and strange voices-IMPACT, Abrasion (arch), Froooooost wedging, ROOT wedging, Salt (square) wedging, and UPLOADING (facebook!). It is hard to describe the motions and voices for those but trust me they were awesome. This brings me to my next one. You know you're a Mines student when you actually enjoyed studying. (Bailey and I had some awesome ways to remember things for our earth and environmental systems test! i.e. see above, as well as Felsic full, mafic minimal, Aa OUCH! sharp!, ferric-crimson, red ferric iron turns soil red, ferrous- shamrock green ferrous iron turns soil green, that rock as stripes it looks gneiss, shit that rock has particles that you can see, schist haha) Most of that probably made no sense but we remembered it for the test. And everytime the answer was one of those you couldnt help but smile :). You know you're a Mines student when you are so happy this week is almost over.