May

15

Awesomeness Abounds

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My last couple weeks have been fine and dandy.

The semester ended with a bang when our Equine Exercise Physiology Jeopardy team, The Destriers, won the game. We got $5 gift cards to Wal Mart for that triumph.

I also got my semester grades and got all A’s except for a C in Trig, which is actually better than I was expecting. I was super excited about my A in Ag Entrepreneurship since I’d figured all semester that I’d get a B, so I wasn’t going to strain myself for A-quality work or freak out if I happened to sleep in and miss class a couple times. Now if only my Equine Repro class had been more than 2 credit hours, my GPA would really be looking up.

I made an excellent return to the IWHA show scene last Saturday. I worked in the office and it was nice to see everyone again. I’m headed to work later today.

In less than a week I’ll be 21, complete with a wild bash with my sisters. Which will probably involve us going to our favorite Irish pub at around 12:30pm so that Lil can be tucked into bed by 3:30 in the afternoon, but I think it will be fun.

May

2

The End Times are Near

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By “The End Times,” of course I mean, “The freakin’ end of the semester! Wooooo!”

Tomorrow is my last day. I’ve got a Trig final, which I’m not looking forward to, and Equine Exercise Physiology Jeopardy.

The last week had been fun. We had the year end Ag Picnic at the state park last Friday with some very good food provided by the ag faculty.

Last night we had our Sigma Alpha senior picnic. Bradley went to both events and has come to recognize picnics as “Everybody Feeds Dogs Party,” so he gets out of the car and waddles right in to start mingling/conning people out of food. There are usually lots of dogs at any given Sigma Alpha for ag get-together, so he does have some competition.

I’ve also been going out almost every day to spend time with the broodmares and foals. There are three foals (Brody, Big Red and Titan) and they’re a lot of fun to spend time with and pet.

Some other stuff that my family will be interested in:

1) In my Ag Entrepreneurship class, we did big business plans all semester and presentations for them where we got reviewed by everyone in the class. Our professor emailed out results from peer reviews and I got the 5th highest peer review marks for presentation quality, and 2nd highest on likelihood to succeed.

2) My paper for my JINS (junior interdisciplinary) class (The Horse in History, Science and Art), which overlayed Adam Smith’s economic theory of the Invisible Hand onto behavior in horse herds, was nominated by my professor for the JINS Director Award, which is for the top interdisciplinary papers/projects. Two other people from my class were nominated, too, so that was pretty cool to see.