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 Tailgating during the game is a big tradition on the Hill! Sororities and fraternities traditionally paint their letters on the grass prior to games. I’m a senior this year, so I knew that I had to make the most of my last Homecoming as a current student on the Hill. (Plenty more Homecomings await me as an alum!) I went to McDaniel’s Homecoming my freshman and sophomore year here, and they were okay. I only stayed for part of the game, and things were cold–my first year, it even snowed!
However, the weather was picture-perfect this weekend, with sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s. I mosied on down to the football field a little after kickoff happened at 1:00. McDaniel is famous for tailgating, and once I got to the stadium, I joined my friends at the Gamma Sigma Sigma and Alpha Psi Omega tents. I’m not a member of Gamma Sig, a service sorority, or Alpha Psi, a theater honor society, but both the groups, with tents set up close to each other, gladly let me hang out and watch the game with them.
The game was a close one. McDaniel lost 33-28, but it was exciting to watch. When I wasn’t watching the game, I was chatting with friends, meeting new people, and trying to find friends of mine who are now alumni.
After the game ended, I nearly left, but I ran into a couple of my friends who are alumni, and I joined them in scouting out other alums. With their help, I was able to find a few people I had worked closely with through the Free Press and the Writing Center. I was thrilled to get to see them! I was most excited to get to see my friend Amber, who graduated in May and is now getting her master’s degree at DePaul in Chicago. We were both genuinely happy to see each other and catch up. I was so glad I didn’t go back to my house right after the game was over, because otherwise, I wouldn’t have gotten to see her!
Once I left the tailgating area, I went back to my house to take a breather before meeting up with my friend Emily, an alumna, at 5:00 at the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs’ Homecoming Reception in the lobby of the gym. There, we chatted, and an hour later, we went with another friend to Denny’s for a reunion dinner. I love going to Denny’s this time of year because their pumpkin pancakes are delicious; I always order a Grand Slam breakfast so I can eat some at the restaurant and save some for later.
After Denny’s, we went to go see Danger Sauce perform in Decker Auditorium. Danger Sauce, our improv troupe on the Hill, does a Homecoming show every year for Danger Sauce alumni to participate in. I’d never been to one of the alumni shows before, and it was a treat to get to see Danger Sauce performers who had graduated, regardless of whether our time at McDaniel had overlapped.
I finished up the evening hanging out with my friends in North Village, McDaniel’s on-campus apartment complex. We chatted, enjoyed some snacks, and played a hilarious game of Cards Against Humanity.
It’s not often that I get to pack so much fun into one day and see so many people I love all at once. This was truly a Homecoming to remember, and I hope I’ll create more fabulous Homecoming memories in the future!
Hi guys,
Last Wednesday, McDaniel took a huge step forward when Dr. Casey and Dean Gerl signed the Real Food Challenge agreement. The school is agreeing to ensure that by the year 2020, 20% of the food McDaniel serves in Glar will be ‘real,’ which means local or community/based, organic/ecologically-sound, humane, or fair trade. This will mean that the school prioritizes this real food and really works towards making our dining hall sustainable.
I haven’t been particularly involved myself, but a few of my best friends were really heavily involved through Progressive Student Union and spent countless hours working on their calculations so that they could present the plan to the school. The signing ceremony on Wednesday in Glar was a huge step forward, and represented all the time they’d poured in. I am so proud of them for inspiring change, and of the school for listening to the ideas students have.
At the same time, this endeavor will raise awareness on campus of ways to eat healthily and in a sustainable fashion. I’m so proud of everyone involved.
Ema
I am sorry that I have not posted in a while! Fall break for McDaniel Budapest students was this past week, and I was in Budapest for a grand total of 12 hours over the past ten days. During those ten days I was in Venice, Vienna, and Krakow. Each city was fantastic and I can definitely say that this Fall Break was the best I have ever had at McDaniel. Instead of writing about the ten days in a single blog post, I think it will be much less confusing if I split the blog posts into three different parts — one for each city.
However, in order to celebrate the end of midterms, this blog will focus on midterm preparation and midterm week. The following blogs will have more interesting travel stories!
Holocaust and Memory: Going into this exam, I was fairly nervous because we had to memorize a chronology listing major dates, places, and people relevant to the Holocaust in Hungary. We were also advised to study the reading questions from the first half of the semester as we would have a list to choose from on the test. I studied a lot for the exam and was proud of myself for memorizing the major events on the timeline. I love this class and hope that my midterm responses are a testimony to my interest.
Intro to Political Science: For this exam, we were given five questions one week in advance and on the midterm day, a student picked a number out of a hat. That number corresponded to the question number we had to write about for our midterm. We had an hour and a half to write our essay and after preparing for all five questions the week before, I felt very confident about this exam.
Inventors of Political Ideas: My professor for this class also teaches the Intro to Political Science course, so the midterm set-up was exactly the same. The only difference is that on this exam, the questions were based more on general ideas and political thought rather than political definitions and concepts.
Digital Photography: Surprisingly, this was the most difficult midterm for me. We had an hour and a half to make a Photoshopped image that resembled the model our professor gave us. Each step had a different point value and towards the end of the test, I was actually pretty nervous that I would not finish on time — luckily, I did!
After four days of midterms, I was able to relax. And when I write “relax,” I mean pack. Because after my last test, I had about 24 hours before taking off on my travel excursions!
 Last Friday, my friends and I went to the homecoming dance, which I hope will become a new tradition here at McDaniel.
Although there weren’t as many people there as I would have hoped, at least not at first, it was a lot of fun and I’m glad we went. It was worth the two and a half hours of getting ready as a group, which was more time than we spent at the dance but not quite as much fun.
There was food available, such as various cheeses, some small snacks, and cookies, as well as punch, tables covered in candy set up in the back, and a large area set aside for a dance floor. My friends and I were the first ones on the dance floor as soon as we got there, but that was mostly since the lights were still on. Once the lights were off, the floor filled with people showing off their moves.
All the dancing was tiring, but the song choices were too good to stay off my feet very long. We danced until around midnight and then sat near Kriel Lounge chatting and taking pictures, a good way to end a wonderful night.
I didn’t get back to my dorm until 1am, which was late for me, but I would do it again in a heartbeat. It was a great thing to add to homecoming week and I’m sure in the next few years it’ll become a much bigger affair.
Here on campus we have multiple language houses. Because of a partnership we have with a school in Argentina, the Spanish house director has always been Argentinian.
Two years ago, the Spanish house director was Karina, and she was a really cool. Now she and the current Spanish house director, Angie, have a pen pall system going on between McDaniel students and students in Cordoba.
Angie asked me if I was interested in having an Argentinian pen pal, and of course, I said yes! My pen pal’s name is Mariano. He seems like an awesome person! I would love to meet him in real life. Who knows? Maybe I will.
So far we have talked about family, pets, school, and the future. I am excited to learn more about Argentinian culture through talking with him. It has also been awesome to practice writing in Spanish.
I really like the fact that McDaniel has given me the opportunity to connect with so many different types of people. I cannot wait for my next letter!
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