A non-busy week? huh?

So for whatever reason, this week is a little bit easier than the past few weeks… which is ok. I mean, it could be worse, I could be TOO busy, but really it’s been ok. I’ve had some time to breathe, relax, play a bit of super smash brothers melee on my buddy’s gamecube (yeah, it’s old school, but i love it), and just BE for a while. It was nice.

It’s been quiet here at the office, too… not a lot of tours coming up… however, there’s going to be like 2 weeks in March where EVERYONE comes to visit… and it’s usually the weeks you high schoolers have spring break… haha. And those are the weeks I get really excited about- because I get to show off this awesome school I have the privilege of attending, and I get to show students and parents the wonderful things that happen here… including ME GETTING AN INTERVIEW FOR A JOB AT SOLDIER FIELD!!!! Yes, you read that correctly… every year Matt Black, a BU alum and the Advertising & Events Coordinator for the Chicago Bears, sends a flier to the professors in the Communication department and asks them to screen candidates for interviews at Soldier Field. So a ton of Bradley students applied and they only picked 2 or 3 for interviews at Soldier Field, and I was one of them! I feel REALLY lucky and am REALLY REALLY EXCITED!!!! I’m still waiting to hear back when EXACTLY I’ll be driving up to Chicago… hopefully my car makes it… hahaha.

So that’s my big news… we’ve got a big visit day on Friday so I’m going to go help get things set up for that.

Till then,

Kevin

Sing, sing, sing…

I’m sure I’ve posted about this before: the MASSIVE amount of singing I do. Chorale is singing an IN-CREDIBLE song by a very relevant and current composer, Eric Whitacre. It’s called Leonardo Dreams Of His Flying Machine… and here is a link of Eric Whitacre conducting a professional choir in a performance. Best 9 minutes of music you’ll hear today, guaranteed. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsLiivVgxmM)

SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

Ok, moving on… more excitement. My newest Interactive Media assignment? Remake a movie poster using at least two photographs and Photoshop. Doesn’t sound as cool as it looks, I promise. Basically, I have to take photos and add elements like backgrounds, colors, shapes, words/text, so on and so forth and layer them onto one image. It’s totally out of my normal element, and I’m excited for the challenge of the project.

My audio production class is going really well, too. We only meet once a week, but the projects are pretty intensive and it’s a lot of “learning on your own” which is both frustrating and amazing at times. Our project due Tuesday is a 30-second spot like you’d hear on a radio station, complete with background music. VERY cool stuff, people.

It’s late here, and I’ve got a paper due in my ethics class soon… Good night all!

Till then,

Kevin

Back in the swing of things…

Sorry I’ve been a little late on my posts, team. Right now I’m just chilling in the admissions office with my buddy Matt… you may or may not have seen his bearded face alllllll over the website… haha!

Things have been going REALLY well so far. I just started working for Independence Media as an intern. They own 4 different radio stations here in Peoria, so I’m going to get my feet wet in the “real world” of radio. My supervisor is the promotions director for all four stations, and also is a DJ on two of them, so he really knows what he’s doing and is going to be able to show me a lot of stuff in the industry. It’s not paid, but I AM getting credit for working there. I’m really excited to see where this could lead!

Speaking on leads, today is also the spring job fair! A TON of employers are here on campus to recruit and even interview students. I’m going to go check it out after I give my tour… should be fun.

Aaaaaand speaking on fun, tonight my fraternity is having our annual Valentine Valet fundraiser for our philanthropy. Basically, we have like 20 guys walk across stage one-by-one and someone (hopefully a girl) “buys” that guy as we auction them off. The idea is that the guy walks to the girl to and from classes all day Friday, buys them some Valentine’s Day gifts (chocolate, stuffed animals, etc) and so on. The best part is that every single penny of the proceeds to going towards Camp Big Sky, which is a huge recreation and park area that specializes in providing children and adults with disabilities and mobility issues a chance to experience the outdoors. For example, last year we had rasied enough money to buy the camp a wheelchair-accessible fishing boat. It’s a great way to give back to the community, and especially in these economic times, every bit we can give helps.

Well I’m off to give a tour and hit the job fair… and the sun is out! it’s melting the snow! yay? i think?

Till then,

Kevin

Back at school!

FINALLY! Back at Bradley! Not that being home was that awful or anything, I was just ready to get back on my own and do my own thing.

My break was fun, though. I got to see my family, I got some good gifts for the holidays, I made some money working for my dad’s law firm, and I even traveled to St Louis to visit my girlfriend! So it at least was an eventful break.

Things at school are already heating up… but not the weather. It’s positively GROSS here. It’s raining, but it’s freezing as soon as it hits the ground, so all the sidewalks are really icy and not fun to walk on. The grounds crew has most of them salted, but there’s a lot of sidewalk to salt and it’s been raining on and off all day… NOT ideal conditions for the first day of class.

Is it weird to say I’m glad I have homework, though? I was afraid I wouldn’t have anything to do this afternoon and would wind up just popping in a movie, but luckily I had some assignments to read for Friday and I figured I’d just get a head start on them. A good move for me, I’d say

That being said, I probably should get back to it. I’m hungry, too, which means dinner time should happen soon…

Till then,

Kevin

Home for the holidays

Well, Thanksgiving came and went, as did the flurry of final projects, papers, and of course actual finals themselves.

Aaaaaaannnd now I’m back home. Luckily I won’t be too bored. I’m going to get up early tomorrow and go work for my Dad a bit in downtown Cleveland. His office sometimes needs a “gopher” and he said he’d pay me if I came in and worked… let’s face it, I’m a poor college kid, I need the money. haha.

My mom has a TON of cookies made up here at the house… she must have been preparing for my arrival  luckily there’s some room in my dresser, I can store my clothes in there instead of living out of a suitcase, which is a definite plus.

Tonight I wound up hanging out with my best friend here at home, Josh. He and I went to our old high school’s choir concert, which is fun because they always sing the same song as the last song on the concert, and our director invites up any alums in the audience to sing on stage. So, naturally, Josh and I got up on stage. I’ve always wanted to go to the choir concert, but it usually falls on the last Tuesday of finals at Bradley and I haven’t been able to get home in time, but for whatever reason the moved it this year and I was able to go! I was pretty pumped.

I suppose I should get some sleep if I’m going to be up at 7 AM… yikes!

Till then,

Kevin

IT’S SNOWING!!!!

That is literally my whole update. I’m just thrilled it’s snowing

Back in Berea…

…for the first time in 5 months. This is reeeeaaalllly surreal. I’ve reached a point where so much more of “me” is back in Peoria- physically, emotionally, academically, and so on. All of the stuff I’ve accumulated is sitting in my room in the fraternity house, all of the people I’ve met have been at Bradley, and honestly (it’s weird to say), I’m sad I’m not at school right now. That’s not to say I’m upset about being back home, but I just feel out of place, which is weird considering I spent so much of my life in this same house.

Maybe out of place is a bad phrase. I feel out of my element- there isn’t much here that I still place real meaning in, besides my family. I must say, it was great to drive around town and live in the nostalgia of the memories that came flooding back: places I’d been, friends I’d been with, people who I saw, so on and so forth.

Gosh, I’m just gushing for no good reason. The point is: it’s really emotionally and physically challenging to go back to a place you haven’t been for 5 months and where there isn’t much attachment left.

The nice thing is…. all of the Cavs games are in-market and always on TV here

Back to BU on Sunday, but only after LOTS of food and family!

Best,

Kevin

I literally missed the entire month of October…

… sorry about that, guys. Didn’t mean to leave you all hanging.

It’s november, and it’s officially fall. Leaves are down all across campus, they’re crunching underfoot everywhere I walk.

Things are going really well! The barbershop quartet is still getting some good gigs, On The Rocks is getting geared up for our concert (November 19th, 7 PM- be there), and life overall is just really good.

It’s nice because now that I’m a junior I’ve got a bit more freedom in my schedule, and I get to schedule in some down time to relax and watch a movie. Also, I’m almost done with my term on my fraternity’s executive board, so I’ll have even MORE free time.

Honestly I feel more like a “college student” now because I’m doing so many stereotypical college student things- doing homework in the student center, organizing different events for my fraternity, forming study groups in the library, playing intramural sports, all that kind of stuff. Sure it sounds corny but it’s true: it feels so collegiate!

Speaking on sports, I’ve got a volleyball game soon… a sport I’m actually good at!

Till then,

Kevin

What a month… and it’s not even over yet…

First and foremost, check THIS out…

I already forwarded that article to allll of my family, they all love it, and since a lot of them have never seen the ballpark they now have a glimpse of what I see when I work

Unfortunately, the Peoria Chiefs didn’t make it very far in the playoffs, but I still get a few paychecks, which like I said before is a HUGE help.

It’s a great atmosphere here on campus because it’s just starting to smell like fall- some leaves are falling down, the air is getting chilly, people are wearing more BU hoodies…

And what would my blog be without barbershop!? We compete Friday night… we’re one of twenty quartets competing and they narrow it down to ten on Saturday, and we’re actually hoping to win the whole district, which would be awesome. I’m really excited! And I’m finally getting over my silly cold/sinus thing, which will help as well.

It’s late on a Sunday, so I figure I should get a jump on some reading.

Till then,

Kevin

WOW

Ok, first and foremost I apologize. For those of you who are regular visitors to my blog, I am WAY behind.

School got started and in a HURRY. Here’s the big updates from school: junior year schedule = much more flexible and in-depth than last year. Sports Com has “officially” launched, and we’ve already made a field trip- to a Chiefs game, of course. We met with my boss and a couple other officials and the manager and one of the players, which was pretty fun. We lost the game, though…

Enough about school… to the fun stuff. The Peoria Chiefs made the playoffs (yes, they have playoffs in the minor leagues), which means I get an extra paycheck, which is always nice.

Also, the barbershop quartet has been busy and active as well. We ventured out to Farmington, Illinois on Saturday for the Farmington Italian Festival- it was quite the adventure. They had a tomato chucking contest where you had to build a catapult or trebuche to launch a tomato at the target… quite entertaining.

As you can see from the time stamp, it’s late, and I have some reading to do. So, enjoy senior year (those of you who are seniors) and if you’re a junior… ENJOY THE COLLEGE SEARCH! It’s a lot of fun if you don’t take it TOO seriously

Till then,

Kevin