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I am not sure if I really believe in signs or not, but if I did, I would say that I had two really big ones this past week. For a couple of weeks, there was this guy I was interested in, but it did not work out. Being my naturally overdramatic self, I vowed to never love again, and I am planning to join or perhaps create my own hermit colony (Yes, I know it is an oxymoron).
Shortly after this declaration, I received my first sign. If you live on campus, your Resident Assistant (RA) makes door decorations for your building. Our first door decorations were postcards with beautiful pieces of artwork on them, but this time our door decorations were postcards with famous book on them.
Now if mine had been Pride and Prejudice or something like that, I could have interpreted its meaning very differently. However, the meaning behind my door decoration was very clear. I got The Tunnel of Love. What else could be more blatant and obvious than that?
 Door decorations Upon viewing this sign, I just laughed and moved on, still determined to create my hermit colony. However, last night, I also received a gift from my suitemates. They found a free book in the English department that they thought might interest me. It is a book of two plays, the second is called “Hurricane” and the first is called “The Color of Desire”.
 Book from my suite mates Yet again, I ran into a sign telling me not to give up on love. On top of all of this, last night I met a really cool guy at the other night, so we’ll see if it goes anywhere. Moral of the story: never give up, love is out there!
Sock Assassins is a game that groups play on campus. The honors program did it, sports teams do it, and my track team is currently has five people remaining. It’s a way to encourage bonding among people by throwing socks at each other.
The rules are pretty simple.
- Once the players are determined, everyone is given a target and becomes someone else’s target.
- When the game starts, players try to hit their target with a ball made out of a pair of socks. Only one roll of socks can be carried at a time.
- Safe zones: Work, classes, dorms (including north village apartments), practice (in the case of my team, safe from practice to Glar, as well), Glar (the dining hall) and the area immediately outside of Glar until the double doors or the hallway beneath Rouzer.
- Once you are “killed,” you give the card with your target’s name on it to your “killer.”
- If your target catches the socks you threw at him/her, they give them back to you and are safe for the next five minutes.
That’s it! Some people say they’ve played versions of this with water guns and nerf guns, so it can be adapted.
Some of my friends and I have decided this is a bit like a very safe, not fatal version of The Hunger Games, so may the odds be ever in your favor.
Alright, I’m sure many of you have already read posts about our cafeteria or Glar.
Glar is a typical college cafeteria, it has a deli, a salad line, a hot food line, some type of ‘special’ hot line, a gluten free line, and pizza. During the week, Chicken Tender Thursday is by far the busiest day at Glar! Other days students really tend to enjoy is the pasta action station where you are able to create your own pasta dish and any day there is hot turkey in the sandwich line.
Personally, brunch on the weekend is my favorite Glar day. On Saturdays and Sundays Glar is open for brunch and has a omelet line. Not only will they make any type of omelet you would like but they will ask make you eggs over hard. I love coming to brunch and being able to make an egg sandwich or having a delicious omelet. Unfortunately sometimes the line is extremely long though!
Today I have a ton of homework and studying to do so I did not have time to wait in the omelet line. Don’t worry I still enjoyed my brunch. Other options during brunch include scrambled eggs, some type of potato, grits, and my favorite cinnamon rolls! (Also, Glar always has cereal and bagels out) So this morning I enjoy some eggs and a cinnamon roll, or two!
Overall, Glar has its good days and its bad days but no matter what I can always find something to eat, even if I have to create it on my own!
Yesterday morning, I reluctantly pried myself out of bed sometime after 8:00 in the morning to join a small army of students from McDaniel College and Carroll Community College wearing bright green t-shirts to participate in the annual Westminster Cleanup, a morning of service created to clean up and spruce up various public areas of Westminster.
I was assigned to a group whose job for the morning was to weed and spread manure in Westminster’s community garden, which is located within walking distance from campus. Other jobs I could have potentially been assigned to include picking up trash, cleaning the local cold weather shelter, painting, and spreading mulch.
At first, I was not too happy with what we’d be doing. Shoveling manure isn’t so bad–it’s practically dirt, but weeding is not something I particularly enjoy, since having a bad back makes bending down unpleasant. But the physical activity was what I had signed up for; what I hadn’t anticipated was that the guy who was supposed to bring shovels and rakes and pitchforks for us to use was several minutes late, leaving my group to stand around in the cold and pull weeds by hand. By this point, I had sworn that I would never do Westminster Cleanup again!
But things picked up once the rakes and shovels arrived. We raked the garden to get the weeds up off the ground, putting them into wheelbarrows and dumping them into a large pile in the corner of the garden, which you can see behind the guy in the green shirt in the picture. This is what the garden looked like once we got enough of the weeds off the ground:
 Westminster’s community after weeding and before manure spreading. Those buildings above the guy in the green shirt are part of Mcdaniel’s campus! Once the weeds were up, we spread the manure across the garden as well as we could–we could have easily used more for the garden to be richly covered, but what we had covered it decently enough. It only took us half an hour to spread the manure, so after we finished that, we weeded around the perimeter of the garden. Before we knew it, it was almost 12:00, so we cleaned up and went back to campus.
The morning didn’t end up being so bad. With enough people and some creative thinking, we were able to make the garden work go really quickly. All the work we did made me feel like we had earned the free pizza we all got when we got back to campus–and I definitely earned a much-needed shower as well!
Today I volunteered in a project called the Westminster Clean up! It is an annual thing that McDaniel and Carroll County Community College join up for. Students can volunteer on their own or as groups, such as sports teams or campus organizations. Then they are split into teams and sent on various missions across the town.
My team met up with a City worker and the 5 of us helped him pick up trash along the water ways or drainages, and along the railroad tracks. He told us that the drainages are built to stop a lot of the trash from getting into the bay through the pipes when it rains. It was nice to see that the drainages were doing their jobs and then it was our job to get all the trash out of there. We worked for about two hours and filled at least 10 trash bags! It was very gratifying at the end to see those water ways looking much better.
While cleaning up trash may not be an ideal Saturday, it was nice to be outside and great to know we were helping the environment. We were showing pride in our college town and making Westminster be a little cleaner. There are other perks as well! For being a volunteer, you get a Westminster Clean up tshirt and pizza at the end for lunch! Not too bad of deal if you ask me. 🙂 So if you enjoy volunteering, I highly recommend the Westminster Clean Up!
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