Fitness Classes!

The Fitness Center on campus is brand new and is filled with state of the art equipment. For full-time students, full gym access comes with tuition. There are indoor tennis courts, racquet ball courts, climbing wall, track, pool, open gyms, and plenty of weights, machines, and space. One of the best parts about the fitness center is the group fitness classes. For $40 per semester, you can go to any or all of the fitness classes that are offered. To the right is the class schedule, but in case you can't read it, some of the classes offered are yoga (which is my favorite class), pilates, spinning, zumba, Pink Gloves boxing, ab lab, Hydro fit, max core, Booty camp, and turbo kick.

I was really upset this year because none of the classes that I wanted to go to fit into my schedule. But today, when I walked into the gym, there was a big sign that read "Fall Fitness Classes half off! More classes added!" I am so pumped! I can go to yoga almost every day now! yippy skippy!

MSU Friday!

Three times a year, MSU hosts "MSU Friday" which is a day that reevolves around prospective students. We start the day with coffee, doughnuts and about 30 tours that leave every five minutes! The rest of the day is filled with presentations, sample classes, parent and student panels, residence hall and fitness center tours, and of course, lunch. This past Friday was the first MSU Friday of the year, with about 800 prospective visitors! If you haven't visited the campus yet, MSU Fridays are a great time to go! We have two more this year: February 4th and March 4th. In this picture, Jeff Adams is giving a sample class for Physics. This is one of the most popular sample classes because he lays on a bed of nails and does some cool explosion demonstrations:-)

Busy Week!

This week has been super busy!!! Midterms are around this time and the whole student body is feeling it! Tests, homework, projects, lesson plans, presentations, reading, and papers are consuming my life at the moment. Plus, spring registration begins next week and I am in the middle of the application process to study abroad. If I have already mentioned this, sorry I am going to say it again... I am addicted to traveling. I decided that studying abroad would probably be a fabulous thing to do. I started the application process (which isn't very extensive at all) today. I am planning on going to London for the summer to study at Kingston University. Studying abroad is a great opportunity to see the world, meet new people and learn things from a different perspectives. Studying abroad is the same price as staying in Montana for school (sometimes it's even cheaper for out-of-state students), you don't have to know another language and anybody from any major can study abroad. I will tell you more about it as it gets closer.

Basically, life is crazy and busy busy busy! but no less awesome!

Adventures in Bozeman

The weather this fall in Bozeman has been absolutely awesome! Last weekend, it was so nice, and I needed some alone time, so I decided I would bike to the M (a big M painted on the side of the Bridger Mountains) and then I hiked up to it. I was feeling adventurous and I wondered off the trail a little bit, camera in hand, and started messing around with the settings and took a whole bunch of pictures.

One thing that I love about Bozeman is that there are so many things to do outside that you can't do in a lot of places. For instance, it only took me maybe 25 min to bike to the mountains (and I wasn't going that fast) and within just a couple hours I had gone on a much needed hike. You don't need a car to get to where you need to go. This is my fourth year here and I have never once needed a car to get around town or to go hiking near by. Here are a couple pictures that I took while I was on my biking/hiking adventure.

Jack Johnson at the Gorge!

One of the best parts about college is that you have a lot of freedom. You can leave town for the weekend without a whole lot of thought and no one can tell you not to:-) A couple weekends ago my friend Chance and I drove out to George, Washington to see Jock Johnson in concert at the Gorge. It was great to get away from life for a couple days and the Gorge was so beautiful and the weather couldn't have been better! We stopped in Missoula to have dinner with a friend, stayed the night in Idaho, camped right at the Gorge, and stopped in Helena to have dinner with my uncle! Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love to travel and explore new places and I love little weekend road trips because they are not stressful, it gives you a break, and you get to visit friends and family that you rarely see!

The picture on the left is a picture of the Gorge while we were in George Washington. The picture on the right is a blurry picture of Jack Johnson on stage!

Homecoming Week!

Homecoming was this past weekend!!!! The whole week was filled with fun events in the spirit of the Bobcats! Midnight Mania was hosted at the Field house again (I was sad to miss it but I spent the evening with my roommate because it was her birthday). And the 3rd Annual Blue and Gold Undie Run was held on campus on Friday afternoon. That is one of the funniest events of the year. Hundreds of students strip down to their blue and gold undies to show off their true Bobcat spirit and run a loop around and through campus! The football game was the first warm and sunny homecoming game I have ever been to here at MSU and it was fabulous! And of course, since he Bobcats rock, we won the game! As I was biking around town on Saturday, I was impressed by how much MSU spirit I saw. Everyone was wearing their gold shirts and even my banker was wearing her Bobcat apparel.

Did you miss me??

Greetings! I know it has been a while so let me give you an update!

This summer was AWESOME! I spent the whole summer working at a camp on the North Shore of Lake Superior! No cell phone and limited Internet for three months! I got a total of 6 days off all summer and I spent those days in Duluth, Minnesota with my friends Luke and Eli. We did a lot of rock climbing and even went skydiving! It was great! I highly recommend jumping out of airplanes!
Campers were anywhere from 3rd grade to just graduated from high school, and there were also several retreats for adults to come up as well. So much fun and I miss it dearly, but I am happy to be back in Bozeman and back in school!

This semester has been my busiest yet! I am taking 21 credits and working at JoAnn Fabrics. This year I am the Advocat co-coordinator (which means I help coordinate the class for all of the campus tour guides and help out with MSU Fridays), and I am peer leading a section of the freshman seminar course. Needless to say, I am a busy girl this semester and I will do my best to keep you up to date!