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I am a member of SAAC, which is the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. A couple representatives from each sports team at McDaniel meet about once a month to discuss service events, sporting games, and other campus activities. An important event that SAAC is in charge of is called DIII week. It is a week in April where we celebrate the athletes, and also thank the faculty and staff that support the athletes. This year DIII week is April 7-11th and here are the events that are planned so far:
-Monday April 7th is the Student-Athlete Breakfast. There will be bagels, coffee, juice and water from 7:30-11:00am.
-Tuesday April 8th, There is a Sports Psychology speech by Dr. Carpenter on Spectators and Performance.
-Wednesday April 9, There is a softball double header and it is the Faculty Appreciation game so there will be a BBQ for all faculty members.
-Thursday April 10th is the Tournament of Champions (I do not want to say too much about this because I will blog about it next week, but it is a FANTASTIC community service event)
-Friday April 11th, there will be a Student-Athlete Tailgate and a baseball game.
As you can see, there a lot of great events coming up for the McDaniel athletes! I am looking forward to it all and I will defnitely be blogging about it more next week after these events happen so stay tuned!
In my experience, final papers and final projects are pretty standard parts of college classes. They take research and hours of organizing and writing in the hope that it’ll be the best it can be. As an English major, I’ve gotten used to writing a lot of papers (such as 9 a semester, which has happened), but I’m lucky this semester. I only have to write four, with some little blog posts and short responses thrown in.
And I’m writing on the same topic for two different classes.
I’m in The World of the Hunger Games, which is an Honors SIS that revolves around analyzing different aspects of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. There are lots of guest speakers and I’m learning a lot of fun stuff, but there’s a paper involved that will be used as the basis for a symposium (for us, that’s a presentation to our class and whoever else wants to show up). I was originally planning on exploring the PTSD and coping represented in the series as compared to war veterans.
At the same time, I’m in the Advanced Multimedia Authoring class. We spend a lot of time thinking about rhetoric and designing websites. One of our projects is to write something about rhetoric for Harlot, an online magazine, which we’ll then submit and try to get published. I wanted to do something on The Hunger Games, but couldn’t find a way to think about the rhetoric of PTSD in a way that I would enjoy working on.
Therefore, I decided to make my topic for Multimedia Authoring gender roles, which I can examine rhetorically in how it supports or subverts stereotypical gender roles.
And it turns out I can change my topic for my Hunger Games class, which means I’m now using the same topic that will require the same research for both classes. I just have to make three different versions of the argument (a paper, a presentation, and a paper using media).
This is the amount of research I have so far for just this one topic:
I think it’s a good thing I don’t have to do more research for something else entirely.
This is not a happy post, but it is my hope that in posting it, I can capture some of the excellence of the people–the students and professors–that truly ARE McDaniel.
Life at college is good, but sometimes, life off campus has a way of penetrating life on campus, and sometimes, in not so pleasant ways. This is an inevitability of life, but during my time at McDaniel, I’ve discovered that when life has thrown some of its most unpleasant turns at me, my professors, friends, and peers here at McDaniel have been able to give me the support, accommodations, and love that I need.
Last week, one of my great aunts passed away. She hadn’t been in the best of health recently, so I wasn’t caught completely off guard. But she was very important to me, so her passing was nevertheless sad. I was able to control my grief pretty quickly, but anxiety soon struck. I wanted to be able to go to her funeral, but not yet knowing when it would take place, I had no clue how it would affect my studies and my schedule for this week. It can be stressful to drop everything and go home unexpectedly, but sometimes, circumstances require it. I refused to miss the funeral, and I even drove through some freak late-March snow on Sunday night just so I could be there.
The day after my aunt passed away, I connected with all of my professors to let them know that while I did not know when I would be missing class, I wanted to have plans in place for any day of the week so that when the funeral date was announced, I would be able to plan my course and work schedules around it. My professors, even though I wasn’t able to be certain about when I would miss class, were sincere in helping me come up with those courses of action, so that by the time I did know that the funeral would be Monday, I didn’t have to worry because I had plans that I could then solidify and others that I drop once they became unneeded. And of course, my professors were sincere with their sympathy.
My classmates were also understanding. This week, I have to give a group presentation on The Winter’s Tale for my Shakespeare class, and before I knew the funeral date, there was a possibility that I would have to miss my own presentation. Even though my circumstances were out of my control, when I told my group mates, whom I don’t know all that well, that I might not be able to present with them and have to work on the presentation at weird times, they were completely understanding and were able to help me work around my unexpectedly and inconveniently-timed weird schedule.
Lastly, my friends and close acquaintances whom I’ve told about my aunt’s passing have done a great job showing me their love through ample hugs, which are exactly the sort of support I need in this situation. The support has been unwavering. I received hugs and well wishes when I first found out about the passing, when I was worried about how I would deal with classes and missing work, when I was afraid of driving home in the snow, and even now since I’ve returned to campus.
At McDaniel, I’ve been able to build a rich network of support that I can rely on no matter what degree of hardship I’m going through. My network is also there for me in times of happiness. Being a part of such a caring campus community has truly made a positive difference in my life.
Hi there,
On Saturday evening, the McDaniel College Dance Team hosted a Performing Arts Festival. Tickets were $3 ahead of time and $5 at the door, which was definitely money well spent. There was a variety of talent that I was amazed to see. McDaniel students definitely keep some tricks up their sleeves!
There were a few dancers–groups and solo performers–and a few singers, but there were also some acts out of the ordinary, including a graduate student performing on Native American flutes and out Improv Team, Dangersauce.
All the photos I’ve included here were taken by the Free Press. You can see more here!
Ema
 Students performing on guitar.  McDaniel’s Dance Team  McDaniel’s Dance Team  A new dance group, Africa’s Heritage, performs.  McDaniel’s Improv Team, Dangersauce.  A student performs on Native American flute
In my Sophomore Interdisciplinary Studies class, Genius, Madness, and Creativity, there was an interesting comment made about how people who are both mad and creative often tend to enjoy snowstorms. At first, I could not understand this.
Today, when it snowed, it finally clicked! Snow is creative! I am sure that right about now you are thinking I am a crazy person, but I promise you that even nature shows creativity.
At first, when I was staring at the snow from the window, it seemed nothing more than a hindrance to my view. However, once I started to try and watch the snow as it fell, I realized the coolest thing. Snow knows how to dance!
Whenever the wind blew, the snow began to twirl around making patterns that fed the creativity in my soul. Literally, it was so moving. I think just goes to show how learning in the classroom really does start to become applicable to your life.
Also, now anytime I need some creativity, I will just get lost in the snow.
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