{"id":49,"date":"2008-04-29T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/2008\/04\/29\/april-29-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T14:34:00","slug":"april-29-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2008\/04\/29\/april-29-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"April 29, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone! I\u2019m so sorry that I\u2019ve been MIA for a while. This past week or so has been so chaotic, but now I have some time to breathe.<\/p>\n

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/span>, gave a lecture called \u201cThe Omnivore\u2019s Solution\u201d in the ballroom last Wednesday. For those of you who haven\u2019t read it (I highly recommend it!), The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/span> <\/span><\/em>explores the American food industry. Needless to say, there are some chapters in the book that will convince any reader that living on air alone is healthier. Mr. Pollan\u2019s lecture was an attempt to show that one can still eat properly in today\u2019s society. Ironically, Katie was munching on Cocoa Puffs throughout his entire lecture, and we all went down to Crossroads (a.k.a. fried food heaven) afterwards. Mr. Pollan, I swear I listened to your lecture! I just can\u2019t say no to Crossroads\u2019 chicken fingers!<\/p>\n

This past weekend was Spring Weekend, and it was a blast. On Saturday, there was a huge carnival up at Hart. There were rides, carnival games, lots of food, fried dough (so delicious), watermelon\u2026the works. Later on that night, there was a fireworks display. It was great until the finale. The last firework that went off was a dud, so the ending was extremely anti-climatic. Oh well, we still had fireworks!<\/p>\n

And, lastly, today was my last day of classes. How scary is that? I don\u2019t have a final in US Intelligence, and most of the students in my class are seniors, so Professor Bunke said good-bye to us today. He then wished the seniors good luck with jobs and real life (I am in denial that that will be me in three years). The end of spring semester is so different from fall because winter break is only a month. Summer break seems like a lifetime. I\u2019ll be home for two months, and then I\u2019ll be in England until the end of August. Where are the brakes?!<\/p>\n

We had a hall meeting last night about what we need to do to check out of our rooms after our finals. LC told us that the rooms have to be as clean as they were on move-in day. Carrie and I looked at each other, and I mouthed to her, \u201cThere\u2019s no way\u2026\u201d Carrie\u2019s side of the room is completely fine. My side of the room looks like an earthquake with a 9.0 magnitude hit it. Packing up and cleaning my side of the room is definitely going to be interesting.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m off to finish my two last papers. I\u2019ll be updating throughout the last week of my freshman year!<\/p>\n

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Hey everyone! I\u2019m so sorry that I\u2019ve been MIA for a while. This past week or so has been so chaotic, but now I have some time to breathe. Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma, gave a lecture called \u201cThe Omnivore\u2019s Solution\u201d in the ballroom last Wednesday. For those of you who haven\u2019t read … <\/p>\n

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