100 Nights!

This past Thursday the Class of 2012 celebrated 100 nights until graduation! It was a great celebration of what we've accomplished so far and how many days we have left until our big day. Here's a picture with some of my fellow student ambassadors with some of the lovely admissions staff!

The semester is quickly turning into a busy one! I'm trying to keep this updated but forgive me if it slips a little, I am doing my best! If I saw you at Get Antiquated Day today then I hope you had a great time! It was another fabulous admissions event. :)

Notre Dame Day 2012

Hello All!

This past Tuesday was our University's annual Notre Dame Day. This is where the campus community gets together for a luncheon with a selected guest faculty speaker and honor those achievements of our faculty and students. The theme was the 75th anniversary of the Honor Pledge.

This year the Admissions own Stephanie Cavill won the SSND Mission & Ministry Award. It was very exciting that the School Sisters of Notre Dame (the founders of NDMU) recognized all her hard work as our Events Coordinator as well as her character and commitment to the campus community. Stephanie helps plan all of the personal and group events for prospective students here at Notre Dame. Personally, she is a great boss, mentor, and friend.

Yesterday, I said goodbye to Meridith Fell, who was a senior when I first transferred to Notre Dame and was one of the first sisters of Omega Phi Alpha I had ever met. She then graduated and moved on to become an Admissions Counselor here. She is moving on to a new job and great changes ahead! I will miss seeing her around though!

And finally yesterday, I went to see one of my friends perform in his local band at the Recher Theatre in Towson. It's only about a 10-15 minute drive from campus so that makes it easy to fit in some fun entertainment with your friends after a busy day of classes & meetings.

Start of the Semester!

Hello Everyone!

I'm back to the college semester grind one more (final!) time!! I hope everyone completed their application by the priority deadline of February 1st! Hopefully all you smart ladies will be able to receive some scholarships to make your NDMU education possible. :) We are having our annual Scholarship Dinner Friday, February 24th to honor the accomplishments of our prospective students!

You may be wondering what I have been up to these past few weeks?! Well, the weekend before classes started I worked the MSP Polar Bear Plunge. There was a Notre Dame team who participated. In case you don't know what the PBP is, it's an event hosted by Special Olympics of Maryland where people can sign up and receive donations to jump into the freezing cold Chesapeake Bay. It's a fun time. Here are a few pictures of the 98 Rock promotions team I work with:

The first picture is my site supervisor Jessica, and the second picture is me and my friend Mike who visited at the booth. The polar bear is my fellow intern Ryan who was a good sport about being the mascot.

100 Nights is also coming up for us Seniors, February 16th!! This is an annual tradition for the senior class to spend one last event all together before graduation. We have a nice dinner and cocktail hour with some of our favorite faculty and staff. Afterwards, we all head downtown to go out and celebrate 100 days until we graduate! I bought my dress this weekend, I love it!

I hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl if you watched it last night! Some of the commercials were pretty funny, my favorite was The Voice commercial with Betty White. I was also very excited the Giants won, seeing as the Patriots were the team to knock us out of the running for the big game.

Have a great week everyone!

I came across this picture today online:

It made me think of the many times in life we want to slow time down and go back to when days were simpler and easier. If you're reading my blog then you are most likely starting or in the middle of your college search and/or application process. You're almost done with highschool and are about to embark on heading off to college. I remember those days so well, not knowing what major I would choose and feeling all the uncertainty about the change about to take place in my life. Now as a college senior I am facing the same fears and excitement about what lay ahead. Instead of majors I'm worried about jobs. Instead of thinking about where I'm going to go to school I'm thinking about where I'm going to live.

As I start my last semester as a Notre Dame woman next week it will be the beginning of the end so to speak. I am glad I've had NDMU here for me these past few years to shape me into the person I am. I remember so vividly wearing my cap and gown at my honors convocation ceremony and in a few short months I'll be walking across stage to receive my diploma in that same assemble. If you've recently been accepted or if you're still narrowing down your options, I hope you find NDMU to be as beneficial as so many of the current students do. As I leave, many of you will be following in my shoes. So I encourage you, do not regret growing older, it is a privilege denied to many.

Purple Fever

If you've read my blog since the beginning you might have gathered that I am a huge Baltimore Ravens fan! Lucky for me, my team is headed to the AFC Championship!! All over Baltimore major government buildings, random places in the city, and even local restaurants are showing their Purple Pride. Notre Dame gets in on the action every year the Ravens make it into the playoffs by lighting up our famous Gibbons Tower purple. Here's a picture!

Don't forget our SECOND Winter Open House is this Saturday, January 21st starting at 8:30 in the morning! :)

Winter Break Work Fun!!

As I mentioned in my last post I am working over Winter Break. I started this past Friday with a full day of putting together and sending out mailings! If you're a prospective student expect to receive something that looks like this in the mail sometime soon!

Also, notice my cute gray cardigan! It has the school's logo on the left hand side. Us Student Ambassadors were given these as Christmas presents this year from the Admissions team. I was so excited I wore it on my first day back to work. :)

Happy 2012!!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

It's so exciting to finally reach 2012 because I graduate in May! :D It seems a bit more real now that the actual year is here. I'm currently on winter break and enjoying some time to catch up with friends and relax without looming schoolwork deadlines... I received all of my grades from last semester and am very pleased. JUST missed Dean's List but it was my busiest semester so far and I'm just glad I kept my sanity in the end. :P I hope everyone had a great holiday! Here is a picture of my parents and I on Christmas Eve before mass:

It's a tradition for me to take a picture on Christmas Eve with each of my parents these past few years, but we never get one all together (my dad, the resident photographer, doesn't ever bring out the tripod). So I decided to use my self-shooting camera skills that I learned from growing up in the social media age to capture all three of us together! They're laughing cause they think I'm a little crazy for trying. But hey! It turned out pretty darn good.

I am working in the Admissions office over winterim so hopefully I will see you on a tour or at our second Winter Open House on Saturday January 21st!