So my friend Rufio recently received an ODU deck of playing cards of which I a extremely jealous, because I have been searching for these cards for forever. Some upperclassmen had decks of the ODU playing cards back when I was a freshman here, but I guess they stopped producing them sadly. This is something I would love to see ODU bring back though. They were really cool (in my own humble opinion at least). These cards were a regular deck of playing cards,but they had a panther on them (our mascot) and each card had a different thing to do at ODU for a total of 52 things to do at ODU. Basically, they are super awesome and Rufio better appreciate the rare treasure he has just been gifted.
Many of the things listed on these cards can't be done anymore based on changes in the university, so I would like to make my very own list here for all who are interested :).
1. Visit every building on campus (even Guzman, Las Casas, and the Public Safety house)
2. Visit the sisters at Saint Mary of the Springs
3. Go on a walk near the baseball fields
4. Ride the elevator in Wehrle
5. Try on costumes in the theater
6. Take a Sister Fatula class
7. Read a book from the library for leisure
8. Buy yourself an item of clothing from the Bookstore
9. Go to Mass in Christ the King Chapel
10. Play a game of pool in the Student Center
11. Play sand volleyball
12. Take a picture with Saint Dominick
13. Jump around on the cushioned stairs in Panther Plaza
14. Go on a retreat with Campus Ministry
15. Have a dance party in the Dance and Fitness Room
16. Play the arcade video games in the Griff
17. Run up the baseball stairs as fast as you can without taking a break
18. Make sweet videos to show people how awesome ODU is :)
19. Have lunch or coffee with a staff or faculty member
20. Go to sporting events on campus
21. Lay on the oval and look at the clouds with a friend
22. Do your homework outside
23. Have breakfast in Hamilton Hall
24. Have lunch at Zest
25. Shower in one of the community showers (Sansbury or Fitzpatrick)
26. Watch a movie on a projection screen in the Student Center
27. Play basketball (outdoor court or in the gym)
28. Have a game night (there are board games in most of the residence halls and the student center)
29. Pull an all-nighter with a good friend
30. Go on a moonlit walk around campus with a friend and have a deep conversation
31. Go to a free fitness class
32. Travel with ODU (mission trip, study abroad, sports trips, etc.)
33. Join a club
34. Join a sports team
35. Dress Up on Wednesdays!
36. Start your own ODU tradition
37. Workout in the fitness center
38. Try out for a play or musical
39. Get an on-campus job
40. If you are 21 or older, buy an alcoholic beverage from the Panther Grill
41. Help out at Panther Pride Pitch-In (and clean up the campus whenever else you can as well)
42. Attend ODU Day
43. Go to Homecoming events (pep rally, football game, parade, dance, tail gating)
44. Submit something to Gesture (essays, poems, stories, pictures, etc.)
45. Enjoy the unlimited yogurt and granola in Hamilton Hall.. yum :)
46. Have a coffee date in the student center (the fireside lounge is a fantastic place for this!)
47. Bring your little siblings to Little Sibs Weekend
48. Make a sincere effort to get to know as many people as possible
49. Walk to Dairy Queen for 15% off a cold treat :)
50. Take the shuttle to Easton (go grab food, shop, go ice skating, see a movie, wander around, etc.!)
51. Start your own club
52. Attend ODU events and programs on campus (there's usually free food and ODU stuff and new people to meet)
Mkay, coming up with 52 things was a little harder than I imagined it would be. Kudos to the people who made those playing cards! I realize some of these are kind of lame, but it's hard to think up 52 things on the spot! I will add/remove things if I come up with some better ideas. Basically, ODU is really awesome though and has a lot to offer, so check out MyODU and find events and programs that interest you. Make your four years here really count. They can be really amazing if you let them be :)
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Lent
Well, Ash Wednesday is tomorrow. It's weird that Lent and Easter are so late this year, but yet, they still manage to sneak up on me. It's weird having Ash Wednesday be during Spring Break. I also completely forgot about Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday which is fine, because I am super sick anyway and probably would not have been up for too much fattening up haha. Apparently, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church. It is a Mass more heavily attended by Catholics than Christmas Mass though which is very odd. I'd still like to make it to Mass tomorrow, but I am glad it is not an obligation day since it is very hard for me to get to Mass when I'm at home and there isn't a chapel conveniently located across the parking lot from me.
I still haven't finalized my lenten promises for this year, but after viewing my bank statement tonight, I think I'm definitely going to cut back on personal spending for Lent and try not to buy myself anything I don't need for a while since I just took myself out on a hundred dollar shopping spree which was a terrible decision. Luckily, I get paid Friday and I don't think I should be needing to buy much for a while. I also think it would be great to dedicate some extra time to prayer since I am in preparation for getting confirmed and I think prayer would definitely help me in readying myself to receive this sacrament. In addition to prayer, I think I'm also going to try to study the lives of some saints to help me in choosing a name to be my confirmation name.
Last year, I also made myself read some amount of Bible verses each day for Lent and I think that was a really great idea, so I may try doing that again this year. I usually try to do some combination of things to help myself in my faith life, so hopefully, I'll find a good mix of things to give up and take on this lenten season. I thought about giving up facebook like many of my peers, but I tried that last year and it was rough at first, but by the end of Lent, I didn't really miss it and now, I can go days without checking my facebook, so I feel like giving it up wouldn't do much for me at this point in my life. I will probably also force myself to write or blog every day during Lent just because it is something I want to do more of and just haven't gotten myself to make a habit of yet, so hopefully, these next 40 days will be filled with more blog posts for you all to read!
If anyone has any good ideas that maybe you've tried in the past or are doing this year for Lent that you'd like to share, I'd love to hear suggestions or just help you stay accountable during this Lenten season. Good luck and God bless!
I still haven't finalized my lenten promises for this year, but after viewing my bank statement tonight, I think I'm definitely going to cut back on personal spending for Lent and try not to buy myself anything I don't need for a while since I just took myself out on a hundred dollar shopping spree which was a terrible decision. Luckily, I get paid Friday and I don't think I should be needing to buy much for a while. I also think it would be great to dedicate some extra time to prayer since I am in preparation for getting confirmed and I think prayer would definitely help me in readying myself to receive this sacrament. In addition to prayer, I think I'm also going to try to study the lives of some saints to help me in choosing a name to be my confirmation name.
Last year, I also made myself read some amount of Bible verses each day for Lent and I think that was a really great idea, so I may try doing that again this year. I usually try to do some combination of things to help myself in my faith life, so hopefully, I'll find a good mix of things to give up and take on this lenten season. I thought about giving up facebook like many of my peers, but I tried that last year and it was rough at first, but by the end of Lent, I didn't really miss it and now, I can go days without checking my facebook, so I feel like giving it up wouldn't do much for me at this point in my life. I will probably also force myself to write or blog every day during Lent just because it is something I want to do more of and just haven't gotten myself to make a habit of yet, so hopefully, these next 40 days will be filled with more blog posts for you all to read!
If anyone has any good ideas that maybe you've tried in the past or are doing this year for Lent that you'd like to share, I'd love to hear suggestions or just help you stay accountable during this Lenten season. Good luck and God bless!
Monday, January 31, 2011
March for Life
Last weekend, I went on my second March for Life trip with ODU. It was a lot more relaxing than it was last year, because I've already done it before, so I wasn't as obsessed with making sure I got to see every building in D.C. I am sad that I didn't take as many pictures since I was so cold and tired most of the trip. It was still a really awesome experience though.
We stayed at a high school in Maryland near Washington DC again sleeping on the floors of the teachers' conference rooms. Girls were in one room and boys in the other. It was like a 40person slumber party and it was awesome. I made some really great memories and met some new friends and got to grow closer with my friend Alli as we shared late night pillow talk underneath some tables.
The first night (Saturday) we just stayed at the high school, ate, got ready for bed, hung out, played card games, etc. I played my first game of Go Ninja Go and did not get out on the first round as I had expected!
The second day (Sunday) was dedicated to exploring the Washington DC area. We began our day by attending mass at the National Shrine (Basilica). It is a beautiful church and I strongly encourage anyone who is planning to be in the Washington DC area to try and at least spend a half hour there. It really is an amazing place. After mass, we split up into small groups and took the metro into town. Our group stopped by the Catholic University of America's center for Dominican studies first (being the great little Dominicans we are) and our friend Nicole who spent a year in Nashville with some sisters during her discernment process got to meet up with some of those sisters again at the university! We took some pretty awesome pictures in front of the building with our group which I will add once I am in my room and have access to my pictures, but I am currently writing this from ODU's wonderful library where I spend most of my days :)
My boyfriend, James, and I split from the group and got me some coffee at Union Station (the mall) before site-seeing and spent most of our site-seeing time in museums. The Smithsonian museums are amazing! There is some really neat stuff in those buildings. I actually learned a lot about some pretty random things during our visit! We also finally got to see the Lincoln Memorial which is much bigger in person than I imagined! It reminded me a lot of the scene in Disney's Hercules where Hercules goes to the temple of Zeus. That was the first thing I thought of when we walked up the stairs and then, the Hercules song got stuck in my head.
Once we got back to the high school, we had some more hanging out time and pizza. I also finally got a picture with my friend Amber with whom I had no pictures until that very night. Then, I was asked to walk on multiple backs and heard plenty of cracks and only wished I had had someone there willing to walk on my back :(
The last day was the day of the march (Monday). My day began at 3am as I volunteered for the hour between 3 and 4am for Eucharistic adoration. It was a very peaceful place to be at 3 in the morning after only getting 2 hours of sleep. Being up early did give me an advantage as I was able to beat everyone to the one shower that all of us girls had to share :). We had a quick breakfast and got to the armory around 7am for a concert/rally/mass. It was pretty intense. There were about 10, 000 people (mostly youths) in the room where we were and another 10- 20 thousand in the Verizon Center next to us. We were there for quite some time, but it was really awesome to see so many teenagers and college students as well as seminarians and women religious all in the same room advocating the same cause. I am usually not a huge fan of this sort of gathering, but it was a very moving experience especially the procession of all of the priests, bishops, and archbishops who celebrated the mass.
I am sad to say that I did not participate in the march for very long as it was very cold and we were not allowed to march for some reason for a while. We ended up standing on the sidewalk waiting to march until we met up with my friend Alli and her boyfriend Eric and then, we decided to just walk up the sidewalk and try and find out what was going on and we ended up just walking to the supreme court house which was a very short walk from where we were standing and once we got there, we found out we weren't actually even in the real march and were asked to make room for the marchers. Then, we just went to Union Station again and I got coffee and we all got Chipotle for dinner as we waited for the rest of our group to get there to prepare to depart back to Columbus.
We ended up not getting home until almost 3am and I was amazed to find that almost everyone still got up for their classes the next morning (some for classes at 8am!). We have some pretty awesome people at ODU and I am really lucky to be a part of this community and to have gotten the chance to go on this March for Life trip again this year.
We stayed at a high school in Maryland near Washington DC again sleeping on the floors of the teachers' conference rooms. Girls were in one room and boys in the other. It was like a 40person slumber party and it was awesome. I made some really great memories and met some new friends and got to grow closer with my friend Alli as we shared late night pillow talk underneath some tables.
The first night (Saturday) we just stayed at the high school, ate, got ready for bed, hung out, played card games, etc. I played my first game of Go Ninja Go and did not get out on the first round as I had expected!
The second day (Sunday) was dedicated to exploring the Washington DC area. We began our day by attending mass at the National Shrine (Basilica). It is a beautiful church and I strongly encourage anyone who is planning to be in the Washington DC area to try and at least spend a half hour there. It really is an amazing place. After mass, we split up into small groups and took the metro into town. Our group stopped by the Catholic University of America's center for Dominican studies first (being the great little Dominicans we are) and our friend Nicole who spent a year in Nashville with some sisters during her discernment process got to meet up with some of those sisters again at the university! We took some pretty awesome pictures in front of the building with our group which I will add once I am in my room and have access to my pictures, but I am currently writing this from ODU's wonderful library where I spend most of my days :)
My boyfriend, James, and I split from the group and got me some coffee at Union Station (the mall) before site-seeing and spent most of our site-seeing time in museums. The Smithsonian museums are amazing! There is some really neat stuff in those buildings. I actually learned a lot about some pretty random things during our visit! We also finally got to see the Lincoln Memorial which is much bigger in person than I imagined! It reminded me a lot of the scene in Disney's Hercules where Hercules goes to the temple of Zeus. That was the first thing I thought of when we walked up the stairs and then, the Hercules song got stuck in my head.
Once we got back to the high school, we had some more hanging out time and pizza. I also finally got a picture with my friend Amber with whom I had no pictures until that very night. Then, I was asked to walk on multiple backs and heard plenty of cracks and only wished I had had someone there willing to walk on my back :(
The last day was the day of the march (Monday). My day began at 3am as I volunteered for the hour between 3 and 4am for Eucharistic adoration. It was a very peaceful place to be at 3 in the morning after only getting 2 hours of sleep. Being up early did give me an advantage as I was able to beat everyone to the one shower that all of us girls had to share :). We had a quick breakfast and got to the armory around 7am for a concert/rally/mass. It was pretty intense. There were about 10, 000 people (mostly youths) in the room where we were and another 10- 20 thousand in the Verizon Center next to us. We were there for quite some time, but it was really awesome to see so many teenagers and college students as well as seminarians and women religious all in the same room advocating the same cause. I am usually not a huge fan of this sort of gathering, but it was a very moving experience especially the procession of all of the priests, bishops, and archbishops who celebrated the mass.
I am sad to say that I did not participate in the march for very long as it was very cold and we were not allowed to march for some reason for a while. We ended up standing on the sidewalk waiting to march until we met up with my friend Alli and her boyfriend Eric and then, we decided to just walk up the sidewalk and try and find out what was going on and we ended up just walking to the supreme court house which was a very short walk from where we were standing and once we got there, we found out we weren't actually even in the real march and were asked to make room for the marchers. Then, we just went to Union Station again and I got coffee and we all got Chipotle for dinner as we waited for the rest of our group to get there to prepare to depart back to Columbus.
We ended up not getting home until almost 3am and I was amazed to find that almost everyone still got up for their classes the next morning (some for classes at 8am!). We have some pretty awesome people at ODU and I am really lucky to be a part of this community and to have gotten the chance to go on this March for Life trip again this year.
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